top of page
Search
THIS ISN'T YOUR WORLD ANYMORE
The Destruction of the Library of Athens, Thomas Cole Alas! If you only knew how soon, how very soon, things will be different…...
TRAFFIC ANALYSIS
Sep 6, 20204 min read
111 views
0 comments
RAMBO'S FLEURS DU MAL
Woodsman with Felled Tree, Edvard Munch You see this [bullet]? This is this. This ain’t something else. This. Is this. The Deer Hunter...
TRAFFIC ANALYSIS
Aug 31, 20204 min read
60 views
0 comments
MEN! ARE YOU HAVING PROBLEMS WITH YOUR ELECTION?
An Election Entertainment, William Hogarth, 1755 I never lied to ya. I’ve always been cool. Don’t wanna be elected. With apologies to...
TRAFFIC ANALYSIS
Aug 28, 20204 min read
82 views
0 comments
COLLATERAL
The late Cannon Hinnant Hey white boy. What you doin’ uptown? Lou Reed, Waitin’ for the Man It is unlikely that there are many...
TRAFFIC ANALYSIS
Aug 17, 20204 min read
82 views
0 comments
THE SHORTEST WAY WITH THE DISSENTERS
Paul Cézanne, Self-portrait, 1875 This is the age of division. Those politicians who state that a certain event ‘will not divide us’...
TRAFFIC ANALYSIS
Aug 13, 20204 min read
45 views
0 comments
MASS DEBATING WHILE ROME BURNS
A Theological Debate, Eduard Frankfort, 1888 Nadia Whittome is a Labour MP. Yes, I know, but please read on, I implore you. She has...
TRAFFIC ANALYSIS
Jul 27, 20204 min read
73 views
0 comments
AFTER THE GOLDRUSH
Destitution (Poverty), Jakub Schikaneder, 1884 Said baby I’m gone stay witchoo ‘Til the money runs out Tom Waits A while ago, I defined...
TRAFFIC ANALYSIS
Jul 24, 20205 min read
43 views
0 comments
THE FORGOTTEN TRIBE
Old Man in Sorrow, Vincent van Gogh, 1890 In these wind-whipped and turbulent times, it is easy to forget. The klieg lights of the media...
TRAFFIC ANALYSIS
Jul 12, 20204 min read
55 views
0 comments
YOU CHEEKY LITTLE TUCKER
The 46th/47th President of the USA? When Alexander de Tocqueville visited America in the early 19th-century, an extended vacation that...
TRAFFIC ANALYSIS
Jul 9, 20204 min read
38 views
0 comments
THE SECRET LIFE OF CAUCASIA
Jean-Léon Gérôme, The Duel after the Masquerade, 1857 Secret, secret, never seen… David Bowie, The Secret Life of Arabia It is one of the...
TRAFFIC ANALYSIS
Jul 7, 20204 min read
58 views
0 comments
METHINKS THEY DO PROTEST TOO MUCH
Second of May 1808 in Madrid orThe Fight Against the Mamelukes, Goya Fashion. What a fickle mistress, and yet how she does beguile us,...
TRAFFIC ANALYSIS
Jul 3, 20204 min read
110 views
0 comments
BRITISH INTELLIGENCE: A HALF-YEARLY REPORT
Three Philosophers, Giorgione (?), 1509 Six months is a long time. I tried living in the real world Instead of a shell. But, before I...
TRAFFIC ANALYSIS
Jul 1, 20204 min read
392 views
0 comments
THIS IS WAR
Who ya gonna call? There is a war Between the ones who say there is a war And the ones who say that there isn’t. Leonard Cohen, There is...
TRAFFIC ANALYSIS
Jun 29, 20204 min read
53 views
0 comments
THE DRIVER AND THE RACONTEUR
Fake noose? Catch the Frisby! Political belief is not simply the holding of a position which pertains to a particular and partisan view...
TRAFFIC ANALYSIS
Jun 25, 20204 min read
41 views
0 comments
INSECURITY SERVICES
Forget Islamists, beware the far-Right! Photo taken at a car-boot sale in Surrey earlier today We have become used to semantic...
TRAFFIC ANALYSIS
Jun 24, 20204 min read
112 views
0 comments
WHEN THE SAINTS COME MARCHING IN
Jean Raspail, who died last week. We can't say we weren't warned. A nation which you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground...
TRAFFIC ANALYSIS
Jun 22, 20204 min read
69 views
0 comments
BETTER CALL SAUL
Who ya gonna call? Saul Alinsky – The Right needs you! ‘To fuck your enemies, first you have to seduce your allies’. Saul Alinsky If the...
TRAFFIC ANALYSIS
Jun 13, 20204 min read
59 views
0 comments
ORGANISING HELL
Satan Presiding at the Infernal Council, John Martin, circa 1823-1827 Just think of all the hell we’ve kicked up around the country with...
TRAFFIC ANALYSIS
Jun 11, 20204 min read
32 views
0 comments
CHECK YOUR THINKING
Think there might be just a tad too much immigration? This is you and your mates, yesterday In polite society – and nota bene, ‘polite’...
TRAFFIC ANALYSIS
Jun 10, 20203 min read
90 views
0 comments
WORKING LIKE CLOCKWORK
Prisoners Exercising (after Gustave Doré), Vincent van Gogh, 1890 Hello and welcome to Politburo Park for the five minutes to midnight...
TRAFFIC ANALYSIS
Jun 9, 20204 min read
57 views
0 comments
bottom of page