Politics

Radical Egalitarian Atheist Humanitarian Sour Old Puritans Anonymous

I still hate football

I have hair, which I sometimes get cut. And this week, that meant talking about football.

I Dumb Down: ‘The Segregation of Dissent’ by E.P. Thompson

I dumb down

I am dumb. A plodder. Terminally middlebrow. Incurably unintellectual. I know this, and I made peace with it a long time ago.

For a multimillion-dollar distraction, Black Panther is quite radical

Oxbridge is awful and should be shut down

Every now and then, the media will fuss about Oxbridge. Usually it’s in response to…

I’ve realised blogging is a waste of time

(about six years too late)

Forget Corbyn — vote for the policies

Whether you like the man fronting them or not, Labour’s manifesto pledges would transform lives

We only care when Westerners die

The more I write these things, the more I realise that I’ve only got about four basic articles in me…

This won’t be a democratic election, because we don’t live in a democracy

We’re governed by an anti-democratic elite that governs in the interest of big business and the super-rich