Category: Serious Commentary

Middle class racism is not one whit less prevalent or less pernicious than working class racism. It is merely more subtle, more decent, more refined, more… respectable. Working class racists will say ‘Bloody Pakis coming here, taking our jobs, raping…

Regardless of my edgy satire on Islam and Islamism, and my love for Charlie Hebdo, I actually have no opinion on the historical Muhammad.

‘Spine-tingling’ is a great phrase, that can either be a metaphor, or a literal phrase. But do any of you know of sayings that genuinely send a tingle down your spine?

The Chinese writer Lu Xun used to write essays called ‘Random Thoughts,’ although random is also translatable as ‘miscellaneous.’ This is quite a good thing to do. Here are a few thoughts which are only loosely bound together; they do,…

I once commented on the Liberal Democrats Facebook page:

Offense is both subjective and objective. Harassment is both subjective and objective.

Have you ever noticed there is a PC taboo (sometimes explicitly stated, sometimes more explicit) over the phrase ‘strong woman?’

It’s really unsettling how there’s all this one-sided criticism of psychiatrists and therapy. OK, some people have had negative experiences, but there’s no one-size-fits-all approach. Some people like CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy). Some find DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) encouraging. Others…

Once, on the Liberal Democrats Facebook page, I said:

I am a ‘moral absolutist’ about Holocaust denialism. I am ‘dogmatic’ about the Holodomor. I am ‘inflexible’ about Bush’s warmongering.