Shooting Trump | A big step towards authoritarianism

Like most people I watched the events unfolding last night with horror and shock. This is a massive moment for Trump supporters, particularly the MAGA/QAnon crowd; this is the moment that verifies every deep state conspiracy theory. There is no hint of shock or sadness from hardcore Trump fans on-line.  They greeted the news of … Read more

Taylor Swift | Trump fans vs Swifties, there can be only one winner.

Kansas City Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers to win last weekend’s Super Bowl.   The Chiefs star player, tight end Travis Kelce, was hugged by his girlfriend megastar Taylor Swift. I don’t really know what a tight end is, but I do know this was the most watched event on US TV since the Moon … Read more

Predictions 2024

Predictions A Conservative MP will be found guilty of rape/violent sexual assault A Conservative MP will defect to Reform The Conservatives will defend several by-elections and lose all of them (*see below) There will be a UK general election in May. Labour will win with a small, but working majority. There will be widespread Russian … Read more

Nightmare Trump Art

I joined some pro-Trump and QAnon/Save the Children groups to research a blog on the coming American Election/Coup D’etat. Frankly what I found was too strange to get my head round, a combination of authoritarianism, conspiracy theories, and new age weirdness. I expected to find fanaticism but all I found was heart breaking loneliness and … Read more

The politics of loneliness: Are the 1930s really repeating themselves?

Hegel remarks…. that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. Karl Marx 18th Brumaire. I get reminded of this quote on a daily basis when people make comparisons between our current age and the 1930s, in particular … Read more