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Disaffected. Dissident. Student of history, literature, religion and the black arts of political rhetoric and persuasion.
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Prurience, the Media and the Soham Murders
Reflections on that dark hunger for news stories of sexual violence and sex crimes, especially involving minors or young girls.
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You're Part of the Collective Now
A couple of comments on politics and eusociality inspired by reading Stephen Baxter's Coalescent.
How the ability to record broadcast media has changed our relationship to knowledge and the world.
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The Muslim Cartoon "Controversy"
Why have they picked this moment to anger millions of Muslims in the name of "freedom of speech"?
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Narnia and Christian Propaganda
Opportunist proselytising undermines the Narnia stories' usefulness as propaganda.
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"Black Smokers"
Black smokers, those strange lightless ecosystems, are a pretty good metaphor for our 'western' consumer capitalist societies...
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The Compulsion to Witness
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Bush & Blair: The Deceptive Allure Of Schadenfreude
We're at a moment where politicians' credibility falls away and it's possible to feel that some progress is being made...
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Stolen Futures
One of the standard tropes of modern political propaganda is the 'what would have happened' line.
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From Blair, A Brief Lesson In Political Rhetoric
Security forces may have thwarted two further attacks - note that 'may'. Well, they may have done anything, or nothing.
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