Short Story Review: “Gentlemen, The Queen” and “Provide for Your Poor Sisters” by Fred Urquhart.
[“An Introduction to Exploring Fred Urquhart’s Short Stories.”] Fred Urquhart’s short stories “Gentlemen, the Queen” and “Provide For Your Poor …
Tag Archives: Morality
A Squeak on Red Squirrels (and Pine Martens).
Years ago, in the forests beyond Aberfoyle, I saw something that I had never seen before: a red squirrel. I …
Downing Street Parties and the Age of Insincerity.
It is self-evident that Boris Johnson should resign because of the “parties” that his government department had held during the …
Book Review: The Ruin Of All Witches.
In seventeenth-century New England witches were often hunted with a great deal of circumspection. The evidence for their guilt had …
Podcast Review: Mirrors.
[The following contains spoilers.] Mirrors is an audiodrama from Texas that is written by Jamie Killen. There are three seasons …
COVID-19 Vaccines and Bodily Autonomy.
I mean it’s not… I mean, I don’t… we are fortunate in this country that although we have vaccine hesitancy …
Just Let Them In.
These days you are able to consume the UK’s media coverage only piecemeal or in dribs and drabs. If you …
Another Problem.
Familiar figures, yes, but they seem to reappear rather a lot across this website. Here they are in grey and …
Democracy Manager Job Application.
I am sad to report that I have little by way of new writing on the go at the moment. …
A Marxist Interpretation of the Taliban’s Victory.
I have not so far encountered a Marxist or a neo-Marxist interpretation of the Taliban’s recent victory that has satisfactorily …
The Noctes Ambrosianae (No 26).
[SCENE: The courtyard of the Peartree. It is early afternoon and James is sitting at a picnic table in the …
A Marxist Reading of the Lockdown.
In the UK, there cannot be many people left now who in their heart of hearts think that the lockdown …
Michel Foucault’s Alleged Paedophilia: A “Cancel Culture” Frolic.
Loose lips, as the saying goes, sink ships. Recently, a particularly splendid showboat, the French philosopher Michel Foucault, has been …
Undo.
Over the last week three ships had been sunk, one after the other, like stray nuts that had disappeared behind …
Locked Down in Edinburgh (6).
On Monday morning, I was at James’ flat in Gorgie and we were both busy devising ideas for new articles …
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