Author: medusian

Oh Simon. Oh Douglas. It’s been a week of disappointment. Douglas Murray penned a fluff piece on behalf of warmongers and death-dealers. Wish I hadn’t read that. And Simon Schama releases the ‘History of Now‘ – a new BBC series, which covertly and overtly supports the very same warmongers and death-dealers while purporting to show…

What is propaganda? What is mis-information (or disinformation)? What is a narrative? What is perspective? What is context? What is a fact? What is truth? There are also some hints as to whether a particular narrative (for example) is most likely propaganda; where it contains… I believe that factual truth is the most effective antidote…

Multiple missile strikes have hit multiple targets across Ukraine, this morning. It’s horrific. I hope the death toll and the suffering is minimal; if I could choose… minimal would equate to zero. I’ve never lived in an active warzone but I have an active and empathic imagination and have seen sufficient images and videos of…

Now, yet more people are dying in Ukraine. A solution that should have been found in 2015 must now be found and implemented as soon as possible to bring this death to an end. It is imperative. It has been imperative for eight years. So where can such solutions be found? We can engage in…

FLUFFYPINK, COMPASSIONATE AND CARING? THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAIL. There are too many branches of this neo-Marxist, post-modernist ideology to cover them all, let alone a single one in any detail. But as they share the format ‘critical [X] theory/justice’ where the [X] can be ‘feminist,’ ‘race,’ ‘queer,’ ‘gender,’ (etc) or the overarching catch-all…

Oh that’s easy. Anti whatever the word ‘fascist’ means, you eedjut. Thanks. OK, so what does ‘fascist’ mean? It’s at this point most ‘anti-fascists’ become patronisingly serene and irritated (a neat trick)… and often disinterested in answering beyond ‘swastikas’ and ‘Hitler’ and ‘Trump!!!’ I don’t blame them their fuzziness. There are a number of definitions….

There are two oft-cited works in the ‘field’ of anti-racism; one that stands at the conceptual beginning and one towards the end. I must admit that given the dissemination of concepts laid out in these two works and the ease with which these concepts have permeated and become accepted as unquestionable truth across western media,…

With reference to Mary Beard’s comments regarding Praxiteles’ ‘Aphrodite’ aired within episode two of the BBC series, Civilisations. Initially, Mary references this bronze statue (below, ‘The Boxer At Rest’)… … by saying It’s the incisive brilliance of sculptures like the boxer that gives the impression that the Greek revolution was an unalloyed triumph of artistic…