Author: Wallace Runnymede
Frank Turner Song Parody: Tony F***ed the Country
Whatever happened to Britain? It’s like we’re scared of phantom enemies to the point of bedpissin’ Even if the danger is minor The press and gov scaremonger With their endless agitprop bullshit! Yo, bigot! Anyone who looks less white than…
Open Letter to Glenn Greenwald: Greenwald & the Ghostly-Chilling Effects (3/3)
All in all, I’m very relieved The Intercept never got back to me about that speculative CV. Perhaps I dodged a bullet there! It is evidently beneath Glenn Greenwald to say ‘Je Suis Charlie.’ So I am glad that, professionally…
A3 Song Parody: Torybums Said
The original song by A3 quotes texts which have made available by the Jonestown Foundation. Jim Jones was a fanatic. It’s also fanatical to gut welfare when so much money is wasted on pointless vanity projects. Next time UK elects…
Open Letter to Glenn Greenwald: Greenwald & the Ghostly-Chilling Effects (2/3)
Did you know that Greenwald once addressed CAIR, which latter has been accused by the FBI of links to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood? And did you also know that Greenwald writes, apparently without a trace of irony, about ‘the military…
In Syria Did Cameron: An Ode to a Dynamic Intervention, in the Mode of Coleridge
In Syria did Cameron A pleasurable jape decree: Where Euphrates river swells with death
Open Letter to Glenn Greenwald: Greenwald & the Ghostly-Chilling Effects (1/3)
I’m going to hold my hands up. It is problematic to write negatively about someone you have once sent a CV to. People may think you are bitter and biased. And I wouldn’t normally do such a thing; prudential-wise and…
Charlie Hebdo Anniversary Tribute (V): The Gilded Birdcage of Spoilt Gods
Quite frankly, if someone believes that children must be deprived of blood transfusions (Jehovah’s Witnesses), or of all medical care (Christian Scientists), or that women are the property of men, or that gay people are sodomites who are all going…
Charlie Hebdo Anniversary Tribute (IV): Are Critics of Religion ‘Hateful Extremists?’
But what, then, are my own limits for religious satire? I will not provide an exhaustive discussion here. I will, however, say that I do not believe that religion is either a ‘force for good’ or a ‘force for evil’…
Charlie Hebdo Anniversary Tribute (III): Moralists are Killing Satire
So let no-one think that by appeasing jihadists or by appeasing unaccountable figures in the countries that Orientalizing intellectuals opportunistically market as ‘the (sole and exclusively) Free World’ that they will avert their malice or their wrath. For, none of…
Charlie Hebdo Anniversary Tribute (II): Freedom of Speech is Not Idealism
So who decides what is blasphemous or hateful? Whoever has the power to do so. But of course, this does not mean that all opinions are equal. For, it is perfectly true to say that women should treated in light…