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Mark Rapley

Mark Rapley

A tale told by an idiot…..

Life, that is.

Jul 3

Jul 3

Mark Rapley

The choreography of state control is a matter of taste and habit…..habits of old….

All the world’s a stage, wrote Shakespeare, and all the men and women merely players. If we stretch his metaphor a little to imagine the…

Mar 18

Mar 18

Mark Rapley

The seven pillars of Alt-Right wisdom…as stated by Steve Bannon, Lord of the Alt-Right..

As the prospect of everything Steve Bannon has worked for gets a little closer — another Trump term as president of the USA — we are bound…

Mar 6

Mar 6

Mark Rapley

Steve Bannon is a Christian Nationalist…..with his own personal War Room.

“You can’t fight in here’ shouts the President in Dr Strangelove, ‘ This is the war room!

Mar 1

Mar 1

Mark Rapley

In Britain, the people have spoken — arrest them!

Now I must immediately qualify my title. It reads as if written by an opponent of democracy or someone in favour of autocracy, a pretend…

Feb 21

Feb 21

Mark Rapley

Is Trump a fascist? Or just a keen student….

If we assume that Adolf Hitler was the ultimate fascist, the one to whom none others can compare, we must say, obviously no, he is not a…

Feb 13

Feb 13

Mark Rapley

‘ I beseech ye , in the bowels of Christ, consider that ye may be wrong ’

It was Oliver Cromwell who made this plea to his Scottish opponents, in the Scotland of 1650, just before a violent battle between the…

Jan 19

Jan 19

Mark Rapley

Most countries had an army. In Germany, the army had a state. In Israel……and Russia…..

It was the sharp wit of Voltaire who observed that Prussia, which in his day prefigured the eventual Germany, had turned the usual…

Dec 15, 2023

Dec 15, 2023

Mark Rapley

An idea is a recruiting sergeant….and so is a bomb. They work together. Top team!

As world war two broke out, Germany and Britain each decided to avoid the bombing of civilians in built up areas — since retaliation would…

Dec 9, 2023

Dec 9, 2023

Mark Rapley

‘In case God’s patience suddenly ends’

This arresting sentence was written by the great philosopher A.E G. Anscombe. It concludes her written explanation of why she opposed…

Dec 7, 2023

Dec 7, 2023

Mark Rapley

Mark Rapley

Co-founder https://kingjamesconsultancy.com I write about the connections between the past and present, between the arts, politics, science and economics.

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