Attack the System- Bell Review Confirms Only Anti-Israel Attitudes Are Rising, Not Antisemitism 24th October 2026Caitlin Johnstone 15 minutes ago Video reading by Tim Foley: I’m still thinking about the admission in the UK’s “antisemitism” review contradicting widespread claims by the western political/media class that antisemitism is rising to dangerous levels throughout our society. We discussed this yesterday, but as a reminder, the […] The post Bell Review Confirms Only […]Keith Preston
- What Is Gavin Newsom Prepared to Do if Trump Rigs the Election? 24th October 2026ELIE V. U.S Elie Mystal 10 hours ago California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks while campaigning for New Hampshire Democratic Senate candidate, U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas. (John Tully / Getty Images) During a speech in New Hampshire, governor of California and presidential hopeful Gavin Newsom warned that Donald Trump […] The post What Is Gavin Newsom […]Keith Preston
- Antiwar.com’s Week in Review for Friday, October 23rd 23rd October 2026October 23rd, 2026 | Weekly Issue Trump Says US ‘Not Negotiating’ With Iran, Something Will Happen ‘Fairly Soon’ Dave DeCamp | October 22nd The US president said that ‘most people seem to think’ it will happen after the midterms President Trump told reporters on Wednesday night that the US was […] The post Antiwar.com’s Week in Review […]Keith Preston
- Bell Review Confirms Only Anti-Israel Attitudes Are Rising, Not Antisemitism 24th October 2026
- Samizdata
- The CoastSnap Project and the Surface Stations Project 23rd October 2026“How citizen science is tracking changes in shorelines around the world” is a report in the Guardian by David Hambling. He writes, The shoreline changes with the weather. Tracking these changes over time is a labour-intensive task, and an army of citizen scientists with camera phones is a great asset. The CoastSnap project started in […]Natalie Solent (Essex)
- Samizdata quote of the day – giving the POTUS a kicking 22nd October 2026Nixon incurred a generation’s outrage and mockery for insisting to interviewer David Frost that, “When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.” Trump, within the first month of his second term, asserted on social media that, “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law,” a formulation frequently attributed to […]Samizdata Illuminatus (Arkham, Massachusetts)
- Let’s help disadvantaged pupils do better by hiding how badly they are doing now! 22nd October 2026“What comes next: A fairer approach to primary assessment” is a paper by the Institute for Public Policy Research, a progressive think tank. Here’s the IPPR’s own summary of its report: We set out four recommendations for immediate implementation from the 2027/28 academic year. Recommendation 1: The Department for Education should establish an independent ‘statutory […]Natalie Solent (Essex)
- The CoastSnap Project and the Surface Stations Project 23rd October 2026
- Wisdom Dancer
- Systems indoctrinate, deprecate questioning and doubt, produce reactive citizens, and blame them(An extension of a few points I mentioned in this video concerning education.) So-called educational systems teach young students what to believe, how to behave, and perhaps skills deemed necessary—not to question. (To a considerable degree, teaching what to believe … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- Excerpt: a chorus of the living, an orchestra of echoesA brief excerpt taken from Book III of Volume I of The Constellation of Man. These metaphors, like others I use in the book, introduce realism concerning the novelty of our personal appearance on preconstructed stages of history and human culture, atop mind … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- The Liberating Value of ReconciliationTwo things amaze me, again and again, about American enthusiasm for rancor in politics. I. Vengeance welcomes and relishes any opportunities to humiliate or oppress one’s opponents, but shows no foresight of how this creates a precedent—a legal and cultural … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- Systems indoctrinate, deprecate questioning and doubt, produce reactive citizens, and blame them
- Mr. Mean-Spirited
- VISITING THE REMAINS OF BENJAMIN DECASSERES IN TUCSON 31st May 2021Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:8.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:107%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} by John GrauerholzThere are particular geographic locations that, for one inexplicable reason or another, seem […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- YOUR OWN MEDICAL RECORD WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU 29th April 2021by John Grauerholz Your medical record is something that will always be used against you. Your medical history only exists to record your physical humiliations. A doctor is not there to cure you, but to cause you as much consternation as possible. A physician’s role is not to heal a patient of your ilk, but […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- THE FUTURE OPPRESSES US 24th March 2021Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:8.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:107%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} by John Grauerholz It is the future that persecutes us. The communitarians would have us break […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- VISITING THE REMAINS OF BENJAMIN DECASSERES IN TUCSON 31st May 2021
- The Hoover Hog
- Wandering Near Sawtry
- A Review of Ed West’s “Small Men on the Wrong Side of History”… 21st February 2020One might think that few people were more annoyed by the 2019 British general election than the conservative author and commentator Ed West. Here he was, preparing to publish his book Small Men on the Wrong Side of History (Little, … Continue reading →bsixsmith
- In Defence of Andrew Sabisky… 16th February 2020The first time I met Andrew Sabisky we walked through central London for hours and neither his energy or my interest flagged. This is a rare combination. There are people who can talk for a long time and there are … Continue reading →bsixsmith
- 2019 14th December 2019I began this decade in London, a physical wreck, mentally ruined, almost friendless and facing the grim realisation that not only was “creative writing” a titanically stupid course to pick but my writing sucked. As bad as all this was, … Continue reading →bsixsmith
- A Review of Ed West’s “Small Men on the Wrong Side of History”… 21st February 2020
- Razib Khan
- Philippe Lemoine: France of the riots and revolution 23rd October 2026Philippe Lemoine is a researcher and writer specializing in the philosophy of science, statistical analysis, and epidemiology. He is a PhD candidate in philosophy at Cornell University. Previously, he was a Research Fellow at the Center for the Study o...Razib Khan, Philippe Lemoine
- Kyle Harper: a natural and human history of the Holocene 23rd October 2026The Last Animal: Human History and the Fate of Life on Earth from the Ice Age to the Sixth ExtinctionRazib Khan
- Kyle Harper: a natural and human history of the Holocene 23rd October 2026The Last Animal: Human History and the Fate of Life on Earth from the Ice Age to the Sixth ExtinctionRazib Khan
- Philippe Lemoine: France of the riots and revolution 23rd October 2026
- Entitled to an Opinion
- The Serpent and the Rainbow 20th October 2026I ended my last book review by writing that I “have a book selected next which will both let me alternate back to non-fiction and fit in with an October dedicated to horror (which I normally leave for just what I watch rather than read) since it was nominally adapted as a horror movie I […]teageegeepea
- Winesburg, Ohio 25th September 2026Sherwood Anderson’s 1922 book is quite far from the scifi I more often review here, but I got interested after watching Tales from the Loop (which I’m going to repeatedly reference throughout this post) and hearing that the showrunner, Nathaniel Halpern, was inspired by this short-story cycle in making his adaptation of an entirely different […]teageegeepea
- American Gods 31st August 2026The first time I heard of Neil Gaiman was when I read Good Omens because I was a fan of that novel’s other author, Terry Pratchett. I recall hearing that it was supposed to be obvious who wrote what because their styles were so different, but I never read any other works by Gaiman until […]teageegeepea
- The Serpent and the Rainbow 20th October 2026
- Evolutionist X
- To Critical Race Theory, or not to Critical Race Theory? 5th July 2021Like the uncollapsed quantum state holding Schrodinger’s cat in a state of simultaneous life and death, whether a school is “teaching critical race theory” or not seems to depend entirely on whether the inquiring person wants them to. Are you anti-CRT? Then, you may rest assured, American schools most certainly aren’t teaching CRT. (If you […]evolutiontheorist
- Review: Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by T. E. Lawrence 26th June 2021Wisdom has built her house; she has set up its seven pillars. — Proverbs 9:1 T. E. Lawrence is the Lawrence, of Arabia, and Seven Pillars of Wisdom is his autobiographical account of his time spent serving in the British and Arab armies during World War One. If you’ve seen the movie, you’ve got the […]evolutiontheorist
- Review: Lawrence in Arabia 10th June 2021Scott Anderson’s Lawrence in Arabia is, quite obviously, about the famous T. E. Lawrence “of” Arabia. The book ranges significantly wider than Lawrence’s personal account, however, shifting between the perspectives of Ottoman officials, German spies, American spies, Zionist spies, and of course British spies. I read this book concurrently with The Berlin-Baghdad Express, so my […]evolutiontheorist
- To Critical Race Theory, or not to Critical Race Theory? 5th July 2021
- Human Stupidity
- Make Western Civilization great again! Dishonesty was its downfall! Honesty can fix it. 13th April 2023We boldly claim to change the world, with one simple dogmatic rule! TOTAL HONESTY, and intolerance for deception, can change the world for the better. One simple rule! Honesty is the #1 necessity for a modern scientific society PC deception and lies are the CAUSE for the downfall of Western civilization. Total honesty and full disclosure are […]Programmer
- HIgh school teen faces 10 years in prison for sexting female classmate 23rd March 2022HIgh school teen faces 10 years in prison for sexting female classmate Teen sexting case highlights severity of N.C. sex offender laws A North Carolina teenager faces felony sex crime charges after police discovered sexually explicit photographs of a sixteen-year-old girl on his cell phone. Cormega Copening is a seventeen-year-old high school student at Jack […]Human-Stupidy (Admin)
- Vote counting corrupted in USA, infiltrated by dishonest leftist activists 15th October 2021Formerly honest and unbiased vote counting is another institution infiltrated with and taken over by leftist activists. Leftists think deception is virtuous[note]It’s virtuous to lie, omit, deceive (about “minority” crime & flaws … Scientific Honesty & integrity compromised by PC Antiracist dogma [/note] to reach higher goals. Dishonest partisan election officials “cured” problem ballots. This […]Programmer
- Make Western Civilization great again! Dishonesty was its downfall! Honesty can fix it. 13th April 2023
- Der Geist (Union of Egoists)
- The Real Meaning of Sabotage: A 1913 IWW Classic by Gerald O. Desmond 10th February 2026This essay, “The Significance of Sabotage,” is reprinted from Industrial Worker, Volume 5, Issue 12, June 12, 1913. The Industrial Worker was the official newspaper of the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.). The author, Gerald O. Desmond, is believed to be one of the many pseudonyms used by Arthur Desmond, who is best known […]Kevin I. Slaughter
- The Freewoman by Rebecca West 9th October 2025From Time and Tide for July 16, 1926 pp. 648-649 I have been asked to write an account of the Freewoman, and those who asked me were wise, for that paper, unimportant as it was in content, – and amateurish in form, had an immense effect on its time. But unfortunately, I have forgotten nearly […]Kevin I. Slaughter
- Little Black Cart/Ardent Press (R.I.P.) + Union of Egoists + Underworld Amusements 27th June 2024On December 31, 2023 the Berkeley anarchist publisher and distributor Little Black Cart / Ardent Press closed shop after many years of the project producing fascinating and challenging work, often finding it brought them at odds with many in the anarchist milieu they operated in. After the Underworld Amusements edition of The Unique and Its […]Kevin I. Slaughter
- The Real Meaning of Sabotage: A 1913 IWW Classic by Gerald O. Desmond 10th February 2026
Category Archives: 80s
Cyndi Lauper (11/2/25, O2 Arena, London, England, UK)
Cyndi Lauper’s return to London last Tuesday was quite a bit different from her previous stop-off in the Big Smoke. Whilst her Royal Albert Hall show back in June was much more celebratory (with Cyndi memorably kicking off proceedings with … Continue reading
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Tagged 80s, Boy George, Cyndi Lauper, gigs, O2 Arena
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Magnum: A Tribute to Tony Clarkin (22/1/25, O2 Forum Kentish Town, London, England, UK)
A pretty poignant one last Tuesday as stalwart prog/AOR/hard rockers Magnum kicked off their series of memorial shows for their late guitarist, songwriter, and co-founder Tony Clarkin in London. With the band being prominent on my playlists, mainly on the … Continue reading
Peter and the Test Tube Babies (30/12/24, New Cross Inn, London, England, UK)
Once again, punk stalwarts Peter and the Test Tube Babies saw the year out at the New Cross Inn in Sarf London, this time bringing along newer acts Meathook and Bamboo Vipers along for the lark. The Vipers opened the … Continue reading
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Tagged 80s, Bamboo Vipers, gigs, Meathook, Peter and the Test Tube Babies, post-punk, punk
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The Human League (14/12/24, OVO Arena Wembley, London, England, UK)
Trudging all the way to Wembley is never fun for me in itself, so making the trip requires some pretty damn strong incentive; thankfully, Saturday night provided just that with the Human League concluding their Generations tour at the OVO … Continue reading
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Tagged 80s, gigs, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, T'Pau, The Human League
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Front 242 (8/12/24, Electric Ballroom, London, England, UK)
A first and last for me on Sunday night, with me *finally* seeing Belgian EBM outfit Front 242 on the London date of their farewell Black Out tour. Having missed an opportunity to see them a couple of years back, … Continue reading
The Chameleons (7/12/24, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London, England, UK)
A post-punk triple bill last Saturday night, with me revisiting a couple of familiar acts plus one never seen live before. First came a familiar band, Statesiders Vision Video, with a new keyboardist (complete with fishnets and teddy bear mascots) … Continue reading
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Tagged gigs, post-punk, The Chameleons, The Membranes, Vision Video
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Fist of the North Star Gaiden: “You Are Already Fed!”
Post-apocalyptic Masterchef doesn’t go down as planned… Check out Loyd Grossman here… Enter Kenshiro… No need to be gentle, Kenshiro—it’s his last time! Pulsing…throbbing…and then an explosion: looks like that cock proved too much for his throat to handle. Greedy … Continue reading
“Get Your Tits Out (of Our Rags)!”
Beware, strumpets and reprobates—the femiternalists are back! Not content with slamming their stilettos down on strippers’ faces in Iceland, these especially noxious followers of the feminist faith want to get their killjoy claws into Page 3, the most intellectually stimulating … Continue reading
Posted in 80s, Gender Issues, Moral Panic, Retinal Reprobation, Slave Britannia, The UK
Tagged chivalry, Claire Short, Deborah Corrigan, feminism, femiternalism, femiternalists, Fifty Shades of Grey, glamour modelling, gynopuritanism, Laurie Penny, Leilani Dowding, Lynne Featherstone, Maria Whittaker, Martin Robbins, Mary Whitehouse, Mumsnet, No More Page 3, Page 3, Page 7 Fella, pulchritude, Samantha Fox, social conservatives, the Independent, The Sun, tits
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“Homo Sapiens? Really?”
One of my latest literary acquisitions has been both a source of extreme interest and extreme aggravation. Written sometime in the mid-eighties, Gerald B. Lorentz’s Homo, 99 and 44/100% Nonsapiens combines history, (mis)anthroplogy, Social (and biological) Darwinism, determinism, eugenics, and … Continue reading
Posted in 80s, America, Atheism, History, Perspectivism, Politics, Psychology, Racial Issues, Religion, Society, Texts of Interest
Tagged Adolf Hitler, anarcho-tyranny, Arthur Schopenhauer, Benjamin Banneker, Berserk, Booker T. Washington, Code Geass, compatibilism, determinism, Einsatzgruppen, elitism, eugenics, evolution, fatalism, George Washington Carver, Gerald B. Lorentz, hereditarianism, Homo 99 and 44/100% Nonsapiens, human biodiversity, Jan Matzeliger, Joseph Stalin, Martin Sewell, misanthropology, misanthropy, Omar Khayyám, political correctness, race realism, Ragnar Redbeard, Samuel Francis, Social Darwinism, the 99%
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MRDA’s Crowning Music of Animé #7: ‘Light It Up’ and ‘Show Must Go On’ by Anthem (from Devilman: The Birth)
Lord Enma, open the gates of Hell, and let’s take a swing at the motherfuckers! Hell opens up! And on goes the show: I reckon the second track especially played a part in my eventual embrace of metal; twas half … Continue reading
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