Remember that Castlemaine XXXX ad from the eighties? The one where blame for a collapsed pick-up in the Ozzie outback is attributed not to crate after crate of lager bearing down on its creaking suspension, but to two bottles of … Read More »
When Caitlin Johnstone invited us – see my post of two days ago, On the nature and origins of Islamism – to “think about the hatred and savagery you’d need to summon up within yourself to gouge the eyes out of … Read More »
As America’s aristocracy rushes to heap nauseating eulogy on the late Dick Cheney, here’s how I’ll remember the man. Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words … This last twenty-four hours I’ve watched three interviews by Judge Napolitano. Though … Read More »
Seen today in BTL commentary on a Naked Capitalism piece: Gestopholies, November 3, 2025 at 7:36 pm LOL. Stalin certainly did revive industrial policy in Russia, but he did it in a very flawed way. In order for no one … Read More »
On a tip off from reader Nick Hefferman, a few posts back, I’m reading Aaron Good’s American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. It does what it says on the tin – or, six chapters in, holds out every promise … Read More »
Looking northeast from Swirl Hawse yesterday. Behind and far below lie Levers Water and Coniston’s long exhausted copper mines. To the left the Tilberthwaite Fells, cleaved from Cold Pike and Pike of Bliscoe by unseen Wrynose Pass. On the horizon … Read More »
Part 1 opened with the September 10 murder of Charlie Kirk, a Christian Conservative hitherto unknown to me but with a large following in the USA. The crime led Johns Hopkins historian Todd Stoermer to find commonality between America’s post … Read More »
Trump declared antifa a terrorist organization. Within 48 hours, ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel’s show indefinitely. Nexstar preempted it on their stations. Sinclair went further—airing a Charlie Kirk tribute in Kimmel’s time slot and demanding he donate to [Kirk’s conservative nonprofit] … Read More »
Meanwhile the West backs its genocidal beachhead in the Middle East and US warships threaten Venezuela on bogus pretext. At the very least Washington is doubling down on the Monroe Doctrine in the face of rising Chinese and Russian commercial presence … Read More »
Three peak events last week were the murder of Charlie Kirk … more US-Israeli criminality in the Middle East, this time not against Iran but, after the genocidal ethno-state itself, Washington’s closest regional ‘ally’ … and the handful of Russian … Read More »