Month: December 2025
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Let Them Eat Cake
Read More: Let Them Eat CakeThe phrase “Let them eat cake” is commonly attributed to Marie Antoinette, the Queen of France during the French Revolution. It is said to have been her response upon learning that the French peasants were suffering due to widespread bread shortages. However, there’s no evidence that Marie Antoinette said it. In fact, the phrase “Let…
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The Banality of Evil
Read More: The Banality of EvilIn her influential work The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) and later in Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963), Hannah Arendt explored how totalitarian leaders—such as Hitler or Stalin—could command such persuasive power despite promoting ideologies filled with contradictions and falsehoods. Arendt argued that these leaders weren’t merely skilled liars; rather,…
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Ho Ho Ho!
Read More: Ho Ho Ho!Other than the satsumas in your stocking, may your Christmas be as un orange as possible.
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Stranger than Satire
Read More: Stranger than SatireThis is from yesterday’s Independent. In the blurb for The Orange Man I often use the famous quote from Robin Williams – “People say satire is dead. It’s not dead; it’s alive and living in the White House.” When I started writing The Orange Man some of my satire felt too close to the bone. Now, the surreal…
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Mars for the 51st state!
Read More: Mars for the 51st state!Greenland… Canada… Mars – why not?! Article II of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty [OST] explicitly states that outer space, including Mars, “is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means”. The OST has been ratified by all major spacefaring nations, including the…
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Thank you for your attention to this matter
He may have deleted it; he may have said the image merely depicted him as a doctor; the odious JD Vance (admittedly more of an ecclesiastical authority than the Pope) may have accused us all (again) of not being able to take a joke… BUT WE KNOW WHAT WE SAW. Here’s what Tom Bone (aka…
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2 + 2 =5
Big Brother is alive and orange. How wonderfully well he has grasped the principles of doublespeak in his reassuring updates on the Iran War. George Orwell Nazi theory, indeed, specifically denies that such a thing as “the truth” exists. There is, for instance, no such thing as “Science”. There is only “German Science”, “Jewish Science”,…
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Melania Antoinette
A private screening of ‘Melania’ can only heal divisions
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