The sinister censorship of NatCon Brussels spiked-online.com/2024/04/16/the… 'The storming of NatCon is a reminder that for all the talk of a resurgent right-wing authoritarianism in Europe, the central threat to liberty and democratic rights comes from the technocratic elites.' Tim Black

They’re not wrong.
For the last three years I’ve had to buy pizza on the dark web.

Both Matthew Parris and Rod Liddle wrote this week that X is a frustrating waste of time. Don't entirely agree, but it must take something for those two to agree

ROSS CLARK: How the NHS is now getting an extra ??710m since Brexit dailymail.co.uk/debate/article… via Daily Mail Online Oh my god the Daily Mail

Normans v Anglo-Saxons at the battle of Hastings (colourised)

“We” didn’t make this world, Gary. It’s what human society is. It’s why we have defensive strategies for peace. It’s sad such a trite statement supposedly passes for political comment in the 21st century when our ancestors moved beyond such trite thinking thousands of years ago

Finally nearing the end of the March print edition. This is good on that dubious misanthrope, who thinks farming was a terrible idea in the first place thecritic.co.uk/issues/march-2…

Trans a fad, or something that affects the impressionable? Who would have imagined it? By Jo Bartosch spiked-online.com/2024/04/08/the…

Florence and the Machine just played on RAI Radio 2. Surely the DJ should have referred to them as 'Firenze e la macchina'

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Mentalists.

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'We Care A Lot' by Faith No More remains one of the most before its songs

For context: around 790 crimes were recorded per day in Scotland last year. But 3,800 hate reports on day one of the new Hate Crime Act... This is already out of control

Handel's 'Sarabande' (on Classic FM just now) still reminds me of Dave Gorman's 'Found Poems'

The unbearable sanctimony of the ‘pro-Palestine’ set spiked-online.com/2024/04/01/the… 'Queers for Palestine...This suicidally oxymoronic movement is proof that ‘pro-Palestine’ activism is less about getting to grips with what’s going on over there than about providing a cheap moral rush.'

Now watching: Bryan Magee talking Existentialism with William Barrett youtube.com/watch?v=ry6aSs…

Why aren’t I more afraid of Scotland’s Hate Crime Act? spiked-online.com/2024/04/01/why… 'In the old days, I was terribly polite as I, too, fell for the middle-class belief that misgendering was a terrible sin... This, I quickly came to realise, was a load of bollocks.' by Graham Linehan

'The Times' letters page should be interesting tomorrow