Current Affairs

Avocado Toast and the Myth of Working-Class Profligacy

In case you had forgotten how out-of-touch the bourgeoisie was from the rest of us, Time Magazine sent us all a reminder recently with their headline, “Millionaire to Millennials: Stop Buying Avocado Toast if You Want to Buy a Home.…

Opinion | Pluto Should not be a Planet, and Neither Should Anything Else

Pluto has been in the news…

Sat-Nav or Road-Map?

Are you a sat-nav type of person or someone who prefers to pore over maps? Are you a spur-of-the-moment, jump in the car, rely on the sat-nav’s directions or instead, someone who spends a couple of hours planning and writing down your journey details and taking things from there? Do you…

Do you dream of revolution?

I do.

The world can be the most beautiful thing in existence but man can twist it…

To the People of Israel: A few words of advice on the handling and care of President Donald Trump

US President Donald J. Trump will be visiting your beautiful nation shortly. Before his arrival, we Americans would like to offer you some assistance in making this…

Mr Skovlund, a burning question . . .

I have to ask you this: So, what of the burned children? Who bothers to do due journalistic diligence on their story ? Is it true, or a false claim? If true, is all of this socio-political drama worth the oversight of the severely burned 17 year old and her…

Robinson is an archetype hipster: an amateur trying to con people into thinking he’s a trendsetter; a narcissist who wants to lead a movement but doesn’t have the intellect to develop the guiding ideas that underlie the movement; a fool who thinks he represents a large bloc of people with an agenda that excludes most of them. His “leadership” is why liberals keep losing in the U.S.

Linking Lyrics: Current Affairs and Society Viewed Through the Lens of Great Songs

Linking Lyrics is a new project that I am embarking on to contribute to the healthy current affairs conversations we can find almost everywhere we look these days. The world of current…

Linking Lyrics (1): Is the General Election Slip Slidin’ Away from Theresa May?

The first song in this series is Paul Simon’s Slip Slidin’ Away. For some background on this project please check out the introduction. Please do get in touch if you have comments or want to…

These things don’t just happen: A (fairly) quick explanation of how we went from the Triumph of the West to the Triumph of Trumpism