Author: Wallace Runnymede

There’s a lot of talk about Tom Cruise leaving Scientology. But the media coverage thus far has been very selective. So just this once, I’m going to have to use my imagination to plug the gap.

Shhh. Don’t laugh. Not like the last time! This is pretty damn serious stuff. 1. Rob, Surname-Lacking and Achingly Committed Painfully Irritating Tenure-Cadger “Relevant?” That’s a word people in power always use to dismiss me. Endorsement from “Dr” Kent Hovind Woo!…

Update (22 Sept 2015): Since the links I posted in this article originally have changed, I have edited the post. The Great Flâneur Massacre, oddly enough, is satirical, and portrays an academic conference where the “objects of study” start talking…

The recent revival of the Sepp Blatter affair http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33303066 has led two of the former FIFA President’s most faithful allies business partners supporters to pay tribute.. To this leading light of international gamesmanship… Uh, ‘sport.’ Tony Blair said: People are…

Here’s more of the same. And it’s not often I say that about Fox News! To be frank, I have no doubt in my mind that many individuals in Labour are horrified at how our party is being occupied by…

Fox News has recently directed an audacious and highly compassionate act of humanitarian interventionism towards the UK. Yes; they have tried to (further?) discredit the Labour Party by concocting a document by Harold Wilson that appears to demonize his own…

Welcome back, cobber! Remember last time? Strewth, mate! Yurl need to ‘ave ten tons ah Frosty Jacks when you ‘ear what ‘appens next! *** The moment Fatima and Bieber landed in Alessi Exile Airport in Bishop’s Kennedy, Queensland… A lawless…

A few days ago, Johnny Depp finally threw his cutlass out of the pram about being threatened last month by the unaccountable Canberra/E-Street/Ramsay Street/Ramsbottom Street/Summer Bay/Richmond Hill regime: http://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/johnny-depp-amber-heard-avoid-australia-after-dog-threat-n379546 Unanticipated, obscurely tedious Australian soap opera references? Well, you can’t say…

Last time, I acknowledged that all forms of prejudice are complex, and cannot be seen as corresponding one-to-one with each other. However, while making these qualifications, I also took the risk of drawing an analogy between racism and sexism. And…

One look at the US media, including the comments sections, will show you that something disturbing is happening. Something which has also been happening in many other countries for a long, long time. I speak of an abstract “humanity-centred” moralism that only…