It’s interesting to think about how a country like Germany dealt with its Nazi past in comparison. Of course, in many ways the context is so different because the country established a new constitution post WW2, and the persecution of minority groups is no longer going on (unlike in America). However, I have found it…

So, for example, the biggest number of internet users come from China, where the government has established a significant fire wall to control and regulate information and data. As a commodity itself, the internet is centralized in the hands of a very small number of providers. The ambition of for-profit companies…

Andrew Keen has written a lot about the role of the internet as a ‘failed utopia’:

On the other hand, your vote when you pass 50 is aggressively courted by most politicians, often to the detriment of younger generations (see Trump, Brexit, conservatism generally).

Weirdly, I remember loving it when my parents re-did our kitchen when I was a kid. Call me hillbilly, but I loved being washed outside by the hose and eating boxes of things. My mother is normally very uptight, never let us have white bread/fizzy drinks or dirty the furniture, so it was like a FOOKIN’ DREAM to be able…

Every biography, autobiography, profile piece or television appearance in which Trump has featured has identified him as a narcissistic, ignorant, rude, bellicose, greedy flesh-monger.

HOW DID THIS HAPPEN

According to wikipedia, this guy has the weirdest backstory ever, which partially explains why we’re now in hell. I’ve picked out the most deft sentences in his weird biography:

It seems as if cases like this severely jeopardise the arguments by free speech absolutists.

‘Bullying’ someone into doing something calls bullshit on your argument that you are a feminist. Debating and denoucing flawed patriarchal ideologies (religious and secular) with a wide variety of people who have direct as well as academic experience of faith-based clothing is key, but ‘bullying’ has no place within…

This Be The Verse
BY PHILIP LARKIN

Exactly - and in fact most civilisations throughout human history share a similar code of ethics which simply makes evolutionary / neurological sense:they largely prohibit and punish violence because we both depend on a wider group for survival and are hard-wired to develop emotional and physical relationships with…

Yes, real shocker that a slavery-supporting, pseudoscientific, white supermacist bible could possibly be the source of any immoral lessons...

I don’t know. I haven’t been able to lift my head off my desk for 3 weeks. 

I don’t - a country’s borders are arbitrary, erected through colonial projects and geo-political struggle. My culture and tradition is accidental - I was born in the place I was born, and inherited characteristics and a certain cultural perspective from my family and immediate surroundings.

Sadly, many people do: from state governments in the US who think all refugees are terrorists and therefore have refused to accept any; UK tabloids screaming about the age of refugees as a smokescreen to prevent any entering the country; pundits demanding all the refugees are ‘cockroaches’ who should be blown up if…

I was having a conversation with my friend (who, as an independent journalist, was part of a team reporting from Syria though now it is considered too dangerous for them to go) and he said that he often thought if the pictures the UK were given of refugees drowning at sea replaced the suffering human beings involved…

Don’t send used tampons and pads for burial cremation, send them to the Governor’s office.

The trouble is, then we end up with entrenched red states where even the young people get suckered into this distorted/ignorant world view. We need to campaign/participate/protest/take over those states, not leave them to the baying right wing hounds