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- So some guys had the really freaky idea that we should love one another
- Jesus!
- 'Judge not that ye be not judged'
- Goo
- The way we were: Anglican England
- 'Avatars of living grace'
- Ditching the theology of love
- Reality >
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- Moi
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'And now Amanda is seriously ill.'
- Otting
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- It's like this, Doc >
- Medicine: the continuing joke
- 'By Tummel and Loch Rannoch'
- The laughing-stock of the civilized world
- And be damned to you
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- Transforming the Na-Mhoram's Grim
- Blair: the icing on the cake
- Expecto patronam
- Scarlet battalions
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- Back to the freaking juniper-tree (1)
- Back to the freaking juniper-tree (2)
- Our grandfather who art in heaven (though I doubt it), Howard be thy name
- So you have a problem with my family, fucker?
- 'Jew-Communists'
- Margaret, my great-grandmother, an Irish tart
- The FUQs
- Dear Wannabe Nemesis
- Shall we try again, Bobbles my sweet?
- Evil
- Dixi (that's Latin, you know, Father)
- The cultural use of the lamp-post
- A home from home
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- All times are now (2)
- For Katie: All times are now (3)
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- Non serviam
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Gallery
- And be damned to you
- Catholic Encyclopaedia 1912: Obedience
- Voltaire and Jesus
- Tertullian, Women in Canon Law (1912) and Mulieris Dignitatem (1988)
- Padding through the Vatican archives
- The Vatican State
- Extra ecclesiam nulla salus: go to hell, go directly to hell, do not pass 'Go'
- A short history lesson
- A phrase-book for monkey-nuts
- Summary: the abode of the loon
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Translations from Voltaire (mine): Concerning the Church of England
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- Bukharin and Preobrazhensky: Communism and Religion
- Translations from Voltaire (mine): Freedom of Thought
- Translations from Voltaire (mine): Transubstantiation
- Thomas Paine: The Age of Reason
- Lenin: Socialism and Religion
- Marx: 'So much for the social principles of Christianity'
- The Horcruxes and the illusion of power
- 'And death shall have no dominion'
- Led Zep: Kashmir
- Buddhist meditation music: Zen Garden
- Karula
- Summary: the love way or the power way
- Flashtest
- The worst university in the country
- Just finishing off, Dolores
- Miss Smila's feeling for snow
- Death of an expert witness
- Interesting, those trips to Moscow
- 'His single hand portrayed it'
- Of course no-one pays any attention to poets
- The desire of the moth for the flame
- The Hospital
- The ghost in the machine was riled
- I am the very model of a medical practitioner
- I am the very model of a modern faith apologist: reprise
- I am of course reminded of a little list (of a little list)
- In the garden with Mummy when the Nine turned up
- Grow the fuck up, comrades
- Thin red line
- 'The Party', 'The Regiment'
- Once upon a time there was a big red giant
- Britain's not very secret weapon
- The headlines
- The waning of the age of aquarium
- Letter to MI5: Playing The Patriot Game
- Those in peril on the sea
- The Patriot Game (song)
- Country matters: 'Elf and Safety
- The Matter of Britain
- Marianne
- Riders on the storm with soundtrack
- The rat-catchers
- 'And gentleman in England, now a-bed, shall think themselves accurs'd...'
- The evidence no-one asks for
- England
- My father when young 2
- A few of my books
- The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism
- Barry's book-plate (evil grin)
- Barry: 'demob' if only from the MOI and redeployment at JWT
- Barry: publishing contracts with Curtis Brown
- Barry's funeral service
- Family album
- Barbara's 100th birthday
- And Nigel's funeral: read by Saul on the whale-backed Downs
- Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Class mum lives in a field with Dinge: the intellectual Left
- Within you, without you
- Because the world is round, it turns me on
- More Lattic and other incredibly cool stuff
- Hass and Venga
- The Lover of Jalaluddin Rumi and some things you never wanted to know about translation
- Love IS the law
- Shahriar's sites for sore eyes
- Islamic art and civilization
- Abu Nuwas
- Fisking Warsi
- Harry's Place v. Scumbag College
- Henrietta wondered if HP was too soft on Sparte-Smythe
- Koorosh Modarresi of the Worker-Communist Party of Iran
- Rumy Hasan of the Birmingham Socialist Alliance
- Sharia socialists
- ComSymp, ShariaSymp: plus ca change....
- Illustrations of the Rubaiyat
- Hell, objectively speaking: St Catherine of Genoa
- Joe Stote
- Katy Kianush
- 'Brothers, if you hear...'
- L'Internationale
- A Lioness's Quest
- The Battle of Evermore
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Love in a time of cholera
- TEKEL: Religious, guys? Doesn't that mean shit?
- Please do not feed the god. He really doesn't appreciate it.
- Instead of God eating people, people eat God. Seems a good swap
- Herstory
- Ultramontanism
- Multiverse defined by the sexual equipment of the human male
- Civis romana sum?
- Sunday School, 1913: 'THE GATES WILL BE OPEN TO ALL MANKIND'
- Huxley
- Consciousness 101
- Jesus Christ the apple-tree
- WE DO NOT KNOW
- Trial before Pilate
- 'For the sake of the nation, this Jesus must die!'
- Much how I feel about doctors and other forms of intellectual pollution in the University, really
- Jesus, a human being
- By all means get us wrong, Father
- 'They turned to Rome to sentence Nazareth'
- Buddhism: frightful threat to the Church, you know
- Dharma the Cat and the Barefoot Doctor
- Non-duality
- Exo, eso, balance, Balrogs et le Parti Communiste Francais 1939-1945
- ComSymp, ShariaSymp: Fit the Second
- Printing and the Reformation
- Glossary
- Early chess: more, er, gentlemen (and ladies)
- The Crusades: it's good to look at dates
- Richard and Saladin: perspectives
- Richard and Saladin: perspectives
- Nathan the Wise
- Portly and the Piper at the Gates of Dawn
- Otters return to Thames (maybe)
- The Ottery, TW9
- Spring: rain and shine
- Problems with numeracy: cardinals, generals and rock 'n' roll
- Franny and Zooey
- The tail does not wag the dog
- Try again? I think not: finale
- How many deaths does it take till they know that too many British Muslim women have died
- Who killed Banaz
- Sexism, racism, Islamophobia, Marxophobia and a rather interesting school
- Aaargh! The Terrible Tonge-Monster!
- Just hammering the stake a little further in
- A second English Civil War: women against women
- The vorpal sword goes snicker-snack
- You were saying...
- Of course I've slain the bloody Jabberwock
- Chapter One - Stalinism is just so yesterday
- The rightful heir, the usurper and the usurper's bloody wife
- Wiping excrement off the sole of one's boo
- Fascism victorious, gloating and spurious - for the moment, certainly
- Six counties (sob, the horror of it) lie under John Bull's tyranny
- Calling Lord Haw-Haw
- Cool Britannia
- 'Hell is just as properly proper as Greenwich or as Bath or Joppa'
- 'Any old iron, any old iron, any, any old iron...'
- The Front Line
- Taking it from the top...
- Happy birthday to m
- Extract from The Anile Heir including Lattic
- My body my self
- Culluket, Kastanessen and of course Coulter
- The Girl Who Talked to Otters
- Notes, some of which are Caroline's
- Our revels now are ended
- Pallas Athene
- More notes
- Pan pipes - conclusions - allegory
- Shit, man, they won't even state their problem in the Agora
- Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad
- Poetry in motion
- Ain't no use in looking down!/Ain't no discharge on the ground!
- Queen - We will rock you!
- Queen - Killer Queen
- The wrong shaped body, inferior product
- What a friend they have in evil, all their sins and griefs to bear
- In sum
- 'Building a remedy for Kruschev and Kennedy'
- Classic Islamoballs (and of course pure Stalinism)
- Deja vu
- Really, there are more important things to think about....
- Sleeping Pan by InertiaK
- Hymn to Pan by Faun
- Pan pipes
- Dirty old men
- For Katie: 'And death shall have no dominion'
- The Stone Table cracked
- 10 intellectual frauds of the orthodox religious and their slaves
- A Miracle of Exmoor: a Christmas masque
- WE DO NOT KNOW
- Intelligent women
- 'Tales of brave Ulysses'
- Coursera
- Free
- Milburn
- A fifth column
- Ain't there nuffink wrong with my back, apes?
- Gunfight at OK Corral
- Gunfight at OK Corral: the movie
- Harmonica and Frank
- Captain's Log: Star-Date Whatever
- Women, the US election, the President of the United States and other cool stuf
- The fury of a woman who has been raped
- "Are all American officers so ill-mannered?"
- The grand-daughter of not-quite-the-founder of the Labour Party
- Meanwhile...the lamp-post
- 'Sarat's little joke': the Economic Liaison Officer to the Anile Throne
- Where have all the SovSymps gone, long time passing...
- Roots and reductionism
- 'At anchor here I ride...'
- 'Against all things ending'
- New Page
- Verstehen Sie?
- Memoirs of London medicine
- 28th August 2010
- Irreducible evil
- Irreducible evil
- Just for you: Anthea Turner - and the python
- Goose-stepping morons should try reading books not burning them
- Just call me Serafina Pekkala, or possibly Lady Godiva
- A few reminders
- More? You want more?
- Grand finale
- It even has a pretty cover
- Bambi
- C'est nous qu'on ose mediter/De rendre a l'antique esclavage!
- A reminder of who is Marianne
- Voici Noel!
- Vicar of Bray
- Spanish Ladies
- Meanwhile back in Scilly....Song of the Western Men
- Twenty years behind enemy lines
- Family tree
- Pavarotti: Little Drummer Boy
- Walking in the air
- 'So you think you can love me and spit in my eye/So you think you can love me and leave me to die'
- Aw, come on, Doc, you're such an academic
- Je suis allee voir dans sa tete
- 16 chants de Noel
- 16 chants de Noel
- Talking of sheep...
- The distancing of Jesus from the churches
- So this is how it is to be
- And....And Stafford....And
- A limp prick and no balls
- Excuse me while I dress my hair with vine leaves
- Excuse me while I dress my hair with vine leaves
- Other notes
- Other notes
- Blair
- No?
- 'Are you still laughing, Sarat?' Pt One
- 'Are you still laughing, Sarat?' Pt Two
- If you're going to Acton Vale, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
- The truth about medicine
- Getting nowhere fast
- Bird in the bloody wilderness
- As I have so tiresomely repetitively said
- Untitled
- That which sustains
- Therefore, Vice-Chancellor
- The lies they tell and the drivel they spout
- Rising above the evil reptilian kitten-eaters
- We too do not do cowering
- What the papers say
- The closed (sealed/wounded/stunted/practically non-existent) mind
- Dust and sparkles: child of Dust and Light and Lenin
- Just screaming
- More ridiculous womanish screaming
- Look, children, do look, it's a Five-Year Plan
- Fictionally speaking...The House that Keir built
- The heavy mob moves in: "We're Ancient Greeks. We do reason. And of course democracy."
- What did New Labour achieve?
- Apollo speaks
- Physician, heal thyself - or not
- Wholly unnecessary footnote
- Ah, the dirty underbelly of medicine
- Artemis' arrows
- Dear Apollo, I think the mind-itch needs to be stronger
- A few hymns
- Rhinoceros!
- Begging them to sue me for 15 years
- 'Now that I lie here/My body all holes/I think of the traitors/Who bargained and sold'
- Of course, if anyone has a spare atom bomb
- Whatever it takes
- Shit on the sole of my boot
- Shit on the sole of my boot
- You will see me dead rather than support me
- Vultures waiting for the flesh that dies
- Would you like to see the state of my mattress?
- 'When you've shouted "Rule, Britannia!"...
- 'I vow to thee, my country...' Aw, come on, you know it makes your skin crawl
- The Fixers
- The prince, the cardinal, the duke, the politician and the professor
- The Enforcers
- Me charm. You just strange
- So what exactly am I saying here?
- Pussy Riot: Yet another day in the destruction of Ivana Denisovich
- Untitled
- Pussy Riot (2): no pasaran
- Just smile for the camera, fuckers
- PANTHER: the animations, though not yet the videos
- Theme music
- So-o-o
- Just a stupid woman screaming
- Just a reminder of the Miracle of Exmoor
- Mess with the best. Die like the rest
- The essential paradigm
- No-one wants me to survive. No-one wants me to succeed
- "Are you still laughing, Sarat?"
- You have heard of the University, Doctor?
- PANTHER: The Manual, out now on Scribd
- Going back to work tomorrow
- The gift of speech
- Point counterpoint
- To cut a long story short, therefore
- To cut a long story even shorter
- A few things you need to note
- Death rather than dishonour
- In brief, therefore
- Start of first draft - what do you think of it so far?
- Let me tell you a story, Jackanory, Jackanory...
- Phase II
- Thus we see the great esteem in which London medicine holds the University
- Washed down the drain
- Raped, butchered, destroyed means what?
- "I invoke Artemis"
- I invoke Artemis (II)
- The closing-down sale. Everything must go
- Murder by remote control
- Insufferable
- Befehl ist Befehl
- Order of play
- The Broadmoor annexe
- I say, don't they shoot collaborators?
- You pay them
- Dear British Public
- Graphically speaking.....
- I have taken a lead
- Endsum
- The good news and the bad news
- The education suitable to the masses prescribed by the C19th industrialist, therefore
- 'Are you still laughing, Sarat?/Medicine: the joke
- I shit on you daily
- It is fact
- A new continuum...Watch this space not
- Lady Sybil's swamp-dragons (footnote to the above)
- The Age of Aquarius
- But of course your usual Christmas present, little sick-bags
- 'Sing as you raise your bow, shoot straighter than before'
- There's just one huge and enormous difference, isn't there
- Shall we just highlight that bit?
- Untitled
- Untitled
- Off to see the Wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oz
- Untitled
- 'Don despicable, don of death' Could I leave it out?
- Finish with a summary of the facts
- Roll bloody up for the greatest show on earth
- Just thought to start to make a couple of videos
- Killer Queen
- It is concluded
- A short note
- I need help
- Get out of my university, animals
- Bluestockings
- Oh, when is this going to end?
- Go for it, fuckers, go for it
- Fnords, Jesus and the gerund
- Corsin and coradium
- TAH: Chapter One
- The cancer that is medicine
- The Petri dish
- Hanging them is good. Exposing them is better
- Lattic....
- Female = non-person
- That which sustains reprise
- Faun: Unda. To that which sustains, we can add...
- Non, c'est pas ca
- Quod erat demonstrandum
- To move on, therefore
- So there you have it
- The script
- Ars longa vita brevis
- PANTHER: the movie
- Animal Farm: the midden
- The word is psychopath
- If you prefer, a septic tank
- And the rest
- Twin cores
- Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit
- Here the matter rests at present
- So just what is this bloody nonsense?
- My knowledge of Photoshop has increased by leaps and bounds
- Question One
- Words and pictures
- Etched in acid
- Dear fucking world
- More
- Caniba and Hokabi
- I think - class (Lancashire A, puh-lease, rhymes with gas)
- What is the point of what you are saying? What is it intended to achieve?
- PANTHER was created in 2008
- Happy Samhain
- Profound concern
- The Road to the Isles
- And of course Andy Stewart
- 'Banks on every finger'
- Don't tread on me
- A Miracle of Exmoor: a Christmas masque
- Untitled
- Pretty much a classic, wouldn't you say
- Goose-stepping morons should try reading books not burning them (2)
- There is no reasoning with them
- A little give and take
- Extraordinary irresistible find
- Music
- So there it is, part solution, mostly not
- Reprise: 'Are you still laughing, Sarat?'/Medicine: the joke
- Mireille
- Espèce de pute!
- Etched in stone
- Hate Fal the most?
- Or Shav?
- Or is it Dill?
- Or is it Dill?
- Reminder: Ars longa vita brevis
- Reminder: PANTHER: the movie
- 'If you cannot make up rhymes/There are always the columns of The Times'
- Jarring blast: letter to my father 19th February 2012
- Vermin made simple
- You were saying
- And so, dear MI5, dear Labour Party, dear University...
- I who might as well be fucking dead
- Death rather than dishonour
- Strands
- Dolls on music-boxes wound up by a key
- Beyond death
- You can fit a lot into a five-minute video
- Je suis Charlie
- Marble Arch? The Brandenburg Gate? The Colosseum?
- Sort of cross between Athena and Artemis, really
- OK, lemme be rational
- Meanwhile...
- Meanwhile...
- As if: cui bono?
- Dark satanic mills
- Work in progress
- Welcome to sewer NHS
- Over my dead body
- Beam them up to the Great Prick in the Sky
- So there it is, part solution, mostly not
- That which sustains finale
- Messing about on the River: Lattic, Sarat and Shavli too
- Christ, it's a mad monkey
- Lots of nuffink
- Led Zep: Kashmir (2)
- The pillars of the West/By all means get us wrong, Father
- Evil reptilian kitten-eater
- Cockroach Protection League
- Happy Easter
- The very models of a medical practitioner
- The Act of Desecration
- No is the answer. What is the question? Loony alert, therefore
- The Grand Plan
- Go for it
- Waste of oxygen
- Prologue
- Intermezzo
- Just the time for a brief reminder
- Mess with the best - die like the rest
- Wailings of sick Trots not
- Heavy metal
- 'Allow me to introduce myself...'
- Freddie and Peter
- How to depict one of the most powerful men in the world
- Moog
- Anyone for tennis?
- Hair
- Hairier?
- Hairiest?
- Untitled
- Python and Allen
- Prepared for any eventuality
- Bad moon rising with soundtrack
- Riders on the storm with soundtrack
- 'Sing as you raise your bow, shoot straighter than before' encore une fois
- Not one foul animal among them will uphold freedom and democracy
- Flower power
- Meanwhile there's really only one song for Ardeshna (and Blair)
- Thin red line - the third of the set
- PANTHER: the movie - nealy there
- Do you like my channel art?
- Couple more soundbites to choke on
- Home movie
- Damaged goods
- How is Virginia these days?
- The Hunger Games
- Now on YouTube
- Second vid
- The Mutts
- The Mutt Pit
- The video I shall make
- Kindly therefore display all the wit, creaivity, intellect, education and intelligence you don't have
- The last picture show
- Faun: Unda. To that which sustains, we can add...
- Faun: Unda. To that which sustains, we can add...
- Faun: Unda. To that which sustains, we can add...
- The Last Picture Show 2: female eunuchs
- In tg
- New Page
- New Page
- New Page
- In
- In the heat of the night
- In the heat of the night
- Not a complicated image
- Vermin
- 'It is a slave's lot thou describest, to refrain from uttering what one thinks'
- Won't that be fun, Fitter?
- New Page
- Nous sommes tous P:aris
- Meanwhile back at the ranch
- You may remember the Squelch?
- DIXI
- I laugh at you daily
- The end
- Fuck your lies, your cowardice, your hypocrisy, vermin
- Got it all sewn up
- I am Dill
- PANTHER: the movie - a reminder
- And of course the manual
- They deploy
- New Page
- Traitors and would be murderers
- And the other video
- Yes, there are, aren't there.
- Zopiclone
- Hell
- No answer is a very clear answer
- For Katie: All times are now (1)
- For Katie: The Lord of the Dance
- For Katie and m: The heart will go on
- If it's the last thing I ever do, whcih I suppose it might well be
- My fine body twisted, all battered and lame
- Reflections
- For Katie: The trumpet shall sound
- For Katie: Hallelujah Chorus
- For Katie
- The service
- Reading from 'Burnt Norton'
- Going Back
- or in other words
- I need help
- Time past and time future
- Tomorrow
- How many other lives have you destroyed?
- Arundel
- After such knowledge, what forgiveness
- Let it be said - it will be said
- Information governance
- So----
- Sitting in their tin cans far above the world...
- Another shit-filled weekend
- The Cull
- Society has the right to require of avery public agent an account of his administration
- The laughing stock
- 'Sing while you raise your bow...'
- Simple questions
- For fuck's sake they're all vermin
- Functionally illiterate
- Of no significance to me whatever
- The best story
- Mess with the best. Die like the rest
- The visible difference
- Drop the dead donkey: UCH imploding
- It remains the case
- Oh, and it remains the case
- What matters
- Salvat regina!
- Nancy Wake
- Nancy Wake 2
- 2016: your annual treat - A Miracle of Exmoor
- Dunscreaming (shortly, anyhow)
- Any normal person
- Malice
- Keep your loving brother happy
- Surprised by joy
- University Challenge
- Meanwhile back at the lamp-post
- Except to speak of the absolute horror
- And in particular
- Because I screamed I needed help
- QED
- Sredni Vashtar
- The wild and wacky world of the Waffen SS
- Think I'm a bloody servant, do you
- Irrationality
- Literate, literary, educated, intellectual England
- Refinements
- Doesn't the University see the joke?
- The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
- On the whole, I think....
- Ain't taking it from a woman
- A great and mighty wonder I'm still standing
- The zenith of human possibility
- ' pilot of the storm who leaves no trace'
- 'Sing while you raise your bow. Shoot straighter than before'
- In the face of the evidence
- Watch this space
- Brennt Paris?
- 'I vow to thee, my country...' Aw, come on, you know it makes your skin crawl
- Within you, without you - especially without you
- Ain't I got no respet
- Goose-stepping morons should try reading books not burning them
- The Matter of Kadun: physics and metaphysics
- Cartoons
- Over-arching significance not
- They just wouldn't list
- 'And now that I lie here/My body all holes'
- Photoshoot
- I saved about half the books
- I just don't understand
- Fnords
- Pigs in clover
- See you in hell, fuckers
- Attempted murder
- Bog-rats
- Person or persons unknown but very guessable
- All you need is love
- One more time
- More
- Depict them in bondage
- In sum, Mr Benn's questions
- 'Arnold Lane/Had a strange/Hobby...'
- '...Doors bang/Chain-gang...'
- Etx
- Shoot straighter than before
- My moon and my wand
- My college, my university
- Inevitable and not
- painfully slow on the uptake
- This too you may stuff up your arse
- And of course this
- Pout
- TTFN
- Wiping excrement off the sole of my boot
- A West End comedy, perhaps
- Fascism
- I really don't think so, no
- For Katie: He who would valiant be
- For Katie: He who would valiant be
- For Barry: Danny Boy
- Epitaph: it's your funeral
- Yea, though I work in the Land of the Valley of the Shadow of Death
- Do learn to read, Doctor
- The crooked road the English drunkard made
- By Oak and Ash and Thorn
- Can't un read plain words of English
- I get the gist, I surely do
- The world of perversion
- The Ottery has moved to the banks of the Arun
- Snapping my claws at the foeman''s chants
- Yes, the crash of the waves on the foreshore
- The even longer march of Everywoman
- You tried so desperately hard to destroy me
- Evil reptilian kitten-eaters
- The five most evil men in England
- Love does not drown in corruption)
- Like something out of Hieronymus Bosch
- Harry Secombe: The Old Rugged Cross
- The Drivellers
- Insolence is so very vexing, is it not
- Protected by the faith of my fore-fathers
- Lost causes
- Solid Soviet steel
- 1
- Murderous vermin who jeer at disability
- Clarity
- De profundis clamavi
- Reprise: Nancy Wake 2
- Generals gather in their masses...
- Cry foul and bloody murder
- Tumour
- New Page
- Ludicrous
- I think I said get me out of there
- This is not life
- All bets off, fuckers
- New Page
- Dearest darling Katie and Barry
- You think you impress me?
- Manners, ladies and gentlemen, puh-lease
- I suppose the exact charge would be
- No-o-o I don't thik you should forget about Lattic
- Boys having a bit of a larf
- I thnk, you know, dear Artemis...
- Sttill drooling, are you
- 'Thou shallt not suffer a witch to live.;
- My YouTube channel
- Education is what is left
- New Page
- To su
- To sum up
- The endless road traversed (nearly)
- It's a mandala, stupid
- Happy New Year
- Keep your loving brother happy
- Not with a bang but a whimper
- I, however, have outstanding questions
- Feline groovy
- Suitable cases for treatment
- I have spoken
- Nothing taxing to the sane
- I have of course the utmost...
- Doctors and nurses cannot cope with quantum physics
- Addended: Etched in acid and have been for years
- The psychology of medicine
- No outcry
- A very simple question
- To which task I shall now..
- RIP the Labour Party
- First things first
- I a woman
- The Howard lion
- Lest we forget: I don't
- New Page
- Pat me on the head and tell mee not to be a silly little girl
- I a woman of over 60
- A hanging matter
- The gross falsification of history
- 'The writers by their presence...'
- One more time just for the hell of it
- Lastly...
- The answer is no
- So that was the Universiity that was
- Hey you, get off of my cloud...
- Off. off, off of my cloud...
- A right waste of make-up
- So what?
- Footnotes to the above
- So where - ?
- What is the name of - and can't they - ?
- The glorious first of June
- Why has the door not been smashed down/?
- Your professors, Vice-Chancellor
- Anti-dialogue
- Shall we finish with a quick...
- They don't want the Jabberwock slain
- ABOVE THE LAW?
- So - I think -
- "Sentence first = verdict afterwards."
- DA and TM
- Post mortem
- Everywhere I go people are collecting bloody food
- how many people are on PAYE?
- I am naturallly reminded...
- Where was I?
- Where was I (2)?
- Welcome to the NHS
- Let's play doctors and nurses
- 'Senior members of the University'
- These are {{DOCTORS}}} and {{{NURSES}}}
- The girl who talked to otters
- How you hate intelligence
- And you always get away with it, don't you
- And you always get away with it, don't you
- The Hundred Flowers Movement
- New Page
- In one line
- Belloc, Apollo and May
- While readiing The Four Men
- Golgotha, place of a skull
- Troll toes
- So go for it
- PUT-DOWN
- New Page
- The required result
- Sex and mind
- Their mommas told them...
- Greece or Rome
- The new normal
- Isn't this interesting?
- New Page
- Ruthless vicious evil old men
- The charge is atteempted murder
- The C-List
- Q&A
- Ludicrous propositions
- Chained to the oars
- Footnotes
- 1095 and all that
- The Anglican garden
- Or of course a Kabbalist
- I have some time ago...
- Cult, Death-Eaters
- Not forgetting Nathan the Wise
- Cultural exchange
- And of course not forgetting...
- In short, in my young day...
- Contemplating this Matter of Kadun
- Nearly there
- I detect, therefore
- 'That government by the people, for the people, shall not perish from this earth.'
- Tingle
- Follow-up
- Cave-meen
- Not ancient history
- I have indeed graphically
- 'By their deeds'
- So maybe you'll also like this bit
- Just to be exact
- Which?
- Oh, all right, just for you
- Left something out, didn't I
- Didn't quite finish that off
- Ciletij
- Ritawa
- Shav and Zik
- The party
- Spetzi
- senoki
- Punching the pixels
- Reality
- More tails from the riverbank
- The Sarat and Maya Show
- Perverts
- If we may now...
- In short
- progress
- A national joke
- The Spetzi Effect
- Quanta
- Who owns me if I do not own myself? Reprise
- Who owns me if I do not own myself? Reprise
- Boys having a bit of a larf
- You really have....
- And they all just sit there
- So exactly what - ?
- Hostile fascist foreign powers
- Personal, very
- Rubber dolly
- Essentially
- Fana
- LLLLOLLLL
- Unnatural, innit
- It's over, monkeys, over
- You might learn something but probably not
- So now Blair will tell us all
- Spetzi and Qine
- RL
- Qine and Spetzi
- Fucktards united
- Capital
- Well, didn't I just hand myself the short straw
- Do they actually understand?
- Quotable quotes
- 3D printing
- Ah, but can you print fluffy cushions?
- Taking an intelligent interest
- Vaudos 1
- Vaudos 2
- Vaudos 2.75
- New Page
- Anniversary Waltz
- Automation: ostrich land
- The Kirit and Micaela Show
- New Page
- Cookery time
- What are they like!
- Until we meet on camera...
- And just because I know you love Homeric hymns
- New Page
- Dear Artemis, Athena, Apollo and Pan
- Baz and Paw on the loose in Van-Senok
- Back to the fermions
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- A crude, vulgar, ugly, insolent, mad and evil little man
- RIP English Christianity
- And the outstanding question is...
- Foxes, fruit, fermions and fuck you where you breathe
- Varna's Wall
- Particularly working on
- From the Shrine to the Viledeen
- Spring
- Fisking Welby
- New Page
- And how is the great penis in the sky tonight?
- After-thoughts: don't forget Isis and her pal Sobek
- The cat I don't yet have
- The Greater and Lesser Lunacies
- To whom it may concern....
- New Page
- Frank
- Cock-suckers
- Should you not be a movie buff...
- Marked as property
- Questions, questions....
- You will publicly answer those questions
- And this was Margaret
- Reprise: Our grandfather who art in heaven (though I doubt it), Howard be thy name
- To remind you...
- England the poem
- Back to the Viledeen
- Come on, I just want you to...
- So this is the story
- New Page
- Theme from The Water Margin
- Turn off the bloody Horst Wessel Lied
- Is it -10 yet?
- Chesterton - and Belloc
- New Page
- So what have I proved?
- Mock you incessantly
- No problem, no problem at all
- They have only one interest
- Misa and ban-Razit
- Rowley and Saunders
- HARD WIRING
- Bad science
- Dereliction of duty here, comrades
- Taking it from the top..
- New Page
- Dot the i. Cross the t
- More Fal
- Maya's assassination
- So-o-o
- Well, hi there, Sar-fenan
- And the third reason
- Ysabel Belinda Felicity Jehan Howard
- 'And now that I lie here...'
- Ain't they really
- And so
- 'Of course she has to do this on her own.'
- Who the fuck are Bonnie and Clyde
- How the cards fall
- And don't forget Dill
- And Shav and Dill
- Squishy, Archchancellor: not a healthy diet
- Back to you, Sar-Fenan
- This is not a physics textbook
- e=mc2
- A NON-EVENT
- woo hoo
- Her story
- Oi, you, Sar-fenan!
- Bloody kitten-eaters
- HHGG 1
- HHGG 4
- HHGG 2
- Reprise: It reallly is...
- Dave Allen
- Some psycho schizoid freak
- So absolutely insolently irreducibly evil
- This site
- Under the block
- Do you not understand?
- Gee, it's so wonderful to know
- Parameters
- I might go so far as to say
- I might''ve finished losing my temper
- Archaeopteryx flew like a pheasant
- I am not a child. Children are under 16
- New Page
- Blair, Corbyn, WCPI
- Smile for the camera
- 'Labour'
- Nothing you won't surrender
- HTF do I hitch a lift to Betelgeuse?
- "We are the Daleks."
- Back as ever to the Viledeen
- Scream quietly or the neighbours will hear
- The products rejected out of hand
- ComSymp ShariaSymp Fit the Third
- How to defend England
- If you cannot get rid of the people who govern you...
- National Museum Wales
- Why is this continuing?
- My mission I seem to have been landed with
- Dixi
- Go it alone, suffer alone, what's new
- Deep breaths
- New Page
- Gratis
- Justt to complete the set
- About that grave
- Damn!
- About that clock
- Oh pilot of the storm that leaves no trace
- Last but by no means least
- After which
- Or in short
- Notification...
- I think perhaps tomorrow...
- C17th England
- Je suis comme je suis
- Whatever you do, take pride...
- Selfies
- There remains of course my mind
- If you failed to get the gist
- Alice's Left Hip Esquire
- Limp pricks and no balls
- New Page
- Never ask them to strip
- You, off my planet
- If they absolutely won't...
- Achilles' heel
- Oh just do begone
- No-one on Planet Normal
- Welcome to Labour's England
- Democracy...
- New Page
- Bringing back the dark
- The best story
- Is there one single point?
- To come up to date
- Evil
- The destruction of the intellectual basis of the free world
- The mad relations in the rafters
- Let this be my contentment
- Results
- None of which of course
- A purely indigenous evil
- Here the matter rests at present
- New Page
- New Page
- A toss-up
- Blair
- New Page
- Reality 105
- The wearing of the green
- Recently come to light
- Growly snarly wolf
- New Page
- Five years later...
- Bobbles
- OK, assume.
- A flight of fancy
- So long as we understand each other
- Footnote
- Fisking Warsi reprise
- Why was nothing done?
- Job well done, filth
- Being a galactic mail from me to Zaphod
- Beyond evil
- In the 61st minute of the final hour
- Doo-be, doo-be, do
- English Christianity until....
- New Page
- 'I AM KING AND GOD AND LAW#
- So I get this
- Bad mood
- Another book for you, Blair
- One should always write things down - in some form or another
- All cleared up in five minutes
- Of course I have worn such a hat
- Thus, bloody thus
- No pasaran
- I continued...
- You prefer Misa and Ban-razit
- The 3D printer in the town centre
- Labour's apotheosis
- Selling women by the pound
- Why, my own mother and father wouldn't recognize me
- And the punchline is
- Do just go and fuck yourselves
- Fruit Loop
- Only one interest
- The price of a woman's body
- Eris
- Just can't hear you
- VR
- Not as exciting as Hokabi
- 'Unfortunate'
- Oh look what they're saying about me
- Should one really not...
- I am intelligent.
- From the archives: fisking Warsi
- Do MPs entirely grasp what they're there for?
- Our servants not our masters
- New Page
- Or you could say the reverse
- The problem is that there is no problem
- Irrelevant
- From the archives: who killed Banaz
- From the archives: ooh, we are so sensitive
- From the archives: wondrous multiculturalism
- From the archives: Banaz' sister spoke out
- Neither right nor honourable nor gentlemen
- The carrion chorus
- And so
- New Page
- Can hear you from here, animal
- Forgot it at Christmas
- 'Blinder motions bounded in a shallower brain'
- So golly gosh
- And I laugh (2)
- What else can we talk about
- Thus
- Spare ribs
- Mene mene tekel upharsin
- And of course...
- Matthew 7: 3
- Blair
- This exchange
- Because it's a horrible way to die
- Peter
- Those convictions
- A purely pernicious twist
- The open mind
- They took away the post-its
- First part of Fal 2
- Sarat at the Shrine 1
- Sarat at the Shrine 2
- To continue...
- Contemplating this Matter of Kadun 1
- 2. Contemplating this Matter of Kadun 2
- Shav, Petrush and this Matter of Kadun
- Shav, Petrush and this Matter of Kadun
- Dill and this Matter of Kadun
- Of course
- Ridiculous and viie
- From the archives: obedience (1912)
- I should imagine...
- From the archives: And who kept this bubbling?
- From the archives: Voltaire on the CofE
- From the archives: Extra ecclesiam nulla salus
- From the archives: The Vatican archives 1
- From the archives: the Vatian archives 2
- From the archives: The Vatican archives 3
- 2000 years making most of it up
- Proud Archbishop of York conducts his own daughter's wedding ceremony
- New Page
- Nothing may be said. Nothing may be done.
- It seemed a good idea at th e time
- Sarat, Maya, Cioulis, Spetzi,Ritawa reprise
- Aren't they gorgeous?
- A precedent has been set
- Something else for the animals to gloat over
- Let's play doctors and nurses
- Women beware women
- How best may we accommodate you, o master
- The Agora
- New Page
- Violence power coercion desecration
- BOURGEOIS MORALITY
- New Page
- Once more from the top
- So what do I think?
- First part of Fal
- Fal 2 2021
- Fal and Tet
- To conclude: to whom it may concern
- Sarat and Hass
- THis is what I look like, Vice-Chancellor
- Sonderkommando
- The balance of probability
- Can I keep this up for ever?
- How you hate intelligence 2
- Et freaking cetera
- Honestly, darling, that mantilla
- The prince, the duke, the cardinal, the politician and the professor
- The Fixers
- The Enforcers
- By the balls of Apollo!
- Cernunnos
- Burunda
- Solidarity
- About that new sofa I printed...
- A position it is entirely easy to understand
- Yes. Yes, you are ridiculous
- Yes. Yes, everything I have said about you is an understatement
- Meanwhile back at the ottery
- The flawed concept of Islamophobia
- Oh rats!
- The revolving door
- Ah yes, my future
- Explicit liber
- So now....
- Deep breaths
- Thanks awfully for the suggestion, old boy
- A list, therefore
- Previous reflections
- Ah, culture
- Ah, here you have the nub
- New Page
- Tropes
- Letter to my dead parents
- New Page
- These they left me
- Don't forget Lattic
- Is it a bird? Is it a plane?
- Song of the Western Men
- The new national anthem
- Wanna see the Deeds
- New Page
- Another very fine song
- Shamima Begum
- The perfect citizens of a fascist state
- Grease
- Love, Serafina Pekkala
- To whom it may concern
- First part of Fal
- Fal 2
- Also to whom it may concern
- So what happened then?
- New Page
- New Page
- Who has no authority in England
- I shall now potter off
- La trahison des clercs
- 'Those who cannot remember the past...'
- A little intellectual exercise...
- The view of the Labour leadership
- Take it from the top, Karl
- Is Abbott a feminist? We shall see
- Ooh, we are so sensitive
- Death before dishonour
- Listen very carefully. I shall say this only once
- Of course certain lines here
- Hide the Secret. Hide the Weakness
- The very model of a modern faith apologist
- Models of modern health practitioners
- Meanderings
- Negation
- Bloody certifiable
- Convert, comrades, convert!
- Found the articles
- Dangerous animals
- I name you the Duke of Plaza-Toro
- New Page
- New Page
- Christchurch 1
- New Page
- New Page
- To May, whom it concerns
- Shouts and whispers
- Hic jacet
- Hyde Park, London, England
- Condition of the Working-Class in England 1845
- Thus ComSymp ShariaSymp
- Ooh, you guessed
- You are so obvious
- In detail
- Hard wiring
- If mind does not exist., democracy is unnecessary
- Th Age of Reason, 1794
- Fisking Cantuar
- Danger: profoundly esoteric image
- The seer and that which he sees are one.
- Meanwhile hats off to the Guardian
- Letter to MI5 in case you missed it.
- Fucking Pollyanna
- The Greta Garbo Home for Wayward Boys and Girls
- Perhaps in five year old English
- Non serviam
- The 7 principles of public life. Pix too
- Tor and Tonge
- Barking moonbats
- Herr Hitler, I presume
- A rich joke, Blair
- Eire in the 1950s?
- Cold shower
- By definition 'God' has to know what a lepton is
- Ah, the Yorkshire Ripper
- Parallel government
- New Page
- You will not look at them
- The magic migraine
- From about a year ago
- La nausee
- Yes, it's Operation Mindfuck
- Book review
- Happy bloody Easter
- A little quiet attempted murder
- Fal 2
- The curse of the killer zombies
- So the next logical step would be...
- Don't my silly little arts degree mean nuffink?
- Oh dear I have upset someone(s)
- New Page
- A few questions
- There are no great ones
- Gets so horribly in the way
- Violence against women, it's what you pay your taxes for
- 'Bring me the head of Alfreddo Garcia'
- Just don't forget Lattic
- The House of the Rising Sun
- The initiation of force
- Yes, that's right, I said Bentley
- Turning now to this Matter of Kadun I
- Shav, Petrush and this Matter of Kadun
- Shav, Petrush and the Matter of Kadun 2
- Do admire your handiwork
- Marche funebre
- Misogyny
- On this 75th anniversary...
- The Enchanted Forest
- If you should confront these filth
- Encore une fois
- Impertinent evil filth
- A successful outcome
- Therefore...
- Which end is up
- I shall create it
- PANTHER: The Manual, out now on Scribd
- Sarat, Maya, Cioulis, Spetzi,Ritawa
- First part of Fal
- Fal 2
- Indeed there are many interesting people to talk to in my mind
- Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof
- To dig a little deeper
- Of food-banks and reprographics
- No dark
- Just remembered another spectacular waste of money
- More about Tories
- And more...
- This and that and some of the other
- Or in short
- Don't forget The House That Keir Built
- Memo to the Senate of the University of London
- Turning now to this Matter of Kadun I
- Shav, Petrush and this Matter of Kadun
- The fur does settle...
- Models of medical practitioners
- HARD WIRING 2
- Strange things happen in the quantum universe
- Strange things happen in the quantum world
- "Are you still laughing, Sarat?"
- Falsity
- Je ne regrette rien
- Of course you could always check the facts
- 'Do you recall what was the deal/The day the music died.'
- The family handbook
- Goose-stepping morons
- Riidiculous
- Welcome to the diverse and plural real world
- Does it not sound sweet?
- This half-wit waving her degree...
- O tempora! O mores! O mayhem!
- Sexism is a crime
- ''I can't be treated like this.'
- And here the matter rests at present
- J'ai vecu
- Extreme unction
- The free movement of peoples
- The rules
- The witch must burn in hell, he trumpeted,
- You can always ask Google
- Monsters
- Just think, then you can add murder to your CVs
- New Page
- No dark
- In sum
- Give them everything they ask for
- Good for a laugh
- The end. Full stop.
- Just grow a pair
- Bad moon rose
- To whom it may concern
- And?
- And don't forget Lattic
- The Hall of Mirrors
- Because of course
- How to murder a woman
- Bwahaha
- They gave them time
- My big brown eyes
- A n all-party statement from the House of Commons
- Fat pig
- Always remember...
- Always remember...
- The whole lot of them
- Clear and present danger
- Note to Jackson, Hughes and Ardeshna
- So...
- Oy, you
- They did not like the New Marxism at all
- Irritable Owl Syndrome
- The drivel show
- Oh, you know, Woodstock
- Aqiuarius
- One more time and once again...
- Anglican England
- Since I feel bloody annoying
- At cock crow
- Civilized behaviour
- New Page
- 'Thirty pieces of silver'
- 'I look for truth and find that I get damned'
- Found the quote
- Carrion
- Books
- Singer to my clan in that dim red dawn of man
- Five Prime Ministers
- The victory of the Tuatha de Danaan
- A briefer response
- Bonfire Night
- Conjecture
- Or as I said more lucidly...
- They really didn't like my poems at all
- Denis Diderot
- The Age of Reason
- Some years later...
- We the people
- Side-dishes
- So do tell
- Facts
- Reality
- Because I know you hate it even more
- So perhaps
- Termites
- So you go right on..
- I even told them about the SOE
- Transforming the Na-Mhoram's Grim
- Oh and this
- I think Hafiz would have liked Bunyan's hymn
- Fisking Warsi
- Welcome to Brighton, a plural and diverse community
- An 'All Party Parliamentary Group'
- Oh, when will this end?
- QEbloodyD
- To return to civilization.
- Fal continued
- Fal and Tet
- Dill and this Matter of Kadun
- Shav, Petrush and this Matter of Kadun
- Maya's assassination
- They stripped
- For monkey-nuts: dixi
- Fisking Malik: Preamble
- Melodrama
- Fisking Malik: Part One
- The end is Nye
- Aberfan
- New York Mining Disaster 1941
- Resonances
- Don't talk to me about the law
- And so...
- And the other thing...
- you so love lies, don't you
- Writing things down
- I am the very model of a medical practitioner
- PAINLESS BUT PERMANENT
- Love from Serafina Pekkala
- A difference of opinion
- Just a theory
- What the hell do you think I am, you ridiculous little pieces of shit
- This will do for the time being
- This colour doesn't run
- The desired result
- No balls, 'Frank', just no balls
- Just call me Harmonica
- Hokabi
- In his tin can, far above the world
- Bloody psychopaths, in short
- Berchtesgaden, 1935
- You are so obvious, Blair
- So what happens next?
- So what is the matter with you
- End of the road
- Happy New Year
- Meaningless
- Kinky boys
- A sick joke
- So:
- Bottom-feeders
- New Page
- So why are you here?
- There, isn't that just so cute
- The Lizard of Oz
- And stuff this...
- And they have never heard of...
- Of course I'm a fucking witch
- Just getting out my tunic of skins
- Erudite, that's me
- In short...
- First part of Fal
- Fal 2
- So, as ever
- It is a slave's lot thou describest
- Shav, Petrush and this Matter of Kadun
- Medicine: the joke
- Are you five-year-olds?
- The Directorate
- Murderers and traitors
- Books....
- Books, filth, books
- Since I have no intention...
- Oh, how they stripped.
- Indeed, it is like this, Doc
- Thus...
- And the fuss is about what?
- This and that
- And don't forget Lattic
- Lemme set the scene
- Diversity
- This matter of Kadun: (inner and eso) 1
- The matter of Kadun (inner and eso) 2
- They are the Daleks. They are Masters of the Universe
- I however do not remotely think that
- 'See how I die. Just watch me die.'
- A simple case of attempted murder
- The final act
- Our story
- So why did they not support PANTHER?
- Love drowned in Corruption
- All times are now (1)
- Transforming the Na-Mhoram's Grim
- 'The Father took from him the Keys and the Sword'
- 'That government by the people....'
- Ir's a fucking doddle
- The smoking gun
- Read all abaht it
- Woo-hoo, it's a full moon.
- Carrion
- 'All you need is love'
- Just not macho
- So what precisely - ?
- so when England's answer to Indiana Jones...
- And you filth at UCH
- 'When Julius Fabricius, Sub-Prefect of the Weald...'
- More history (after a bit)
- Exodus 32 (well, loosely)
- A 99% confidence rating
- Something of the kind..
- Come to my funeral, Blair?
- Do anything for them, anything to feed them
- Forgot to repeat the Bobbles letters
- England in the C21st and the C12th
- In the event of.
- My head held firmly under water
- The most basic standards
- Miscellany
- The primate pecking order
- Cancer Ward
- Locke, Hume, Kant, Mill, is there anyone they didn't ban
- Farce
- The Tories' own quest for ideological purity
- 'opium of the people'
- Blair's New Model England
- In English not Latin or Arabic
- Because no-one stops them
- The thin end of the wedge
- Intellectually sickening
- And don't forget Lattic
- Sickboy
- From the Shrine to the Viledeen
- The company of civilized people
- The care of the penis
- So you're happy now
- Unlikely
- I hope...
- So very much more interesting
- Astronomy for Kids of all ages
- Dill and this Matter of Kadun
- In sum....
- Shit
- And I laugh
- Feeesh
- And be damned to you.
- Avatars of perfection
- New Page
- Marked for extermination from the start
- i'm helpless and desperate and alone so just fuck you
- So just go and
- Wouldn't it be lovely to be in hospital
- Alice's adventure in hospital
- The NHS does not live by bread alone
- Just say cheese
- Clear and present danger to women
- There are those who despise being able to spell....
- I remain, yours sincerely
- Do you think I don't know what you are
- Thus troll toes
- Achilles
- Complete barbarians
- Bloody rings of power
- Lady Sybil's exploding dragons
- Mesdames, messieurs, faites vos jeux
- A societal archetype....
- Sascha doing his renowned impression of a baby zebra
- Pog ma thoin!
- The continuum
- Good to see the young people out in the fresh air enjoying themselves
- Look once again at spite-ridden lower-middle-class women
- So the hell with you
- Mr Morgan, Mr Paxman
- Ah, you're going to sue me?
- Or perhaps
- So which particular set of ludicrous and obscene lies?
- The opium of the people
- Throw them my body, throw them my life. Can't do enough for them
- The hell with all of you
- First part of Fal
- Fal 2
- Fal and Tet
- All any of them want, my destruction, the destruction of democracy, destruction of the University
- Maya's assassination
- Sarat, Maya, Cioulis, Spetzi,Ritawa
- Vultures
- They had one chance
- Monsters
- So the fuss is about what?
- Unrectifiable harm done with malice aforethought
- There was, you will recall, a bad moon rising
- Cool stuff
- Just what is your fucking problem?
- So now Emglishwomen are destroyed at the command of sadists
- Aggravating factors: adding insult to injury
- Selfies
- Evidence
- Bonnie and Clyde
- Chinese whispers
- Beyond evil
- Evidence
- They jumped from 40,000 feet without a parachute
- Kindle and things
- Bloody Operation Mindfuck
- What to do when they push Chinese writing under the door
- The word you seek is brainwashed
- The bloody cosmic laughter.
- I thought you might like to see...
- Women's bodies break easily
- They were told and they were told and they were told
- Not on the whole given to Schadenfreude
- Do they actually have IQs or do they flatline?
- Wouldn;'t it be funny if Bobbles were Francis
- All times are now, yet again
- Shame
- What you need to do...
- So all of it a right bloody waste of make-up
- 'There is nothing you can't buy'
- And of course I told them what would happen
- The sub-species woman
- Le quatorze juillet
- Oh and this bit, comrades
- 'Tell all the boys I'm back in the city...'
- Time for a wash and brush-up
- And, and, and
- Verse 5 of the Red Flag and don't forget Lattic
- New Page
- But of course
- Fill in a few gaps
- Merit
- Homo sapiens sapiens stands erect
- Bunch of boobs
- The required result
- Lower than vermin, much lower
- And another one
- The Wizard of Oz
- And the only outstanding question
- Cooking the books
- so come on....
- Hell and tarnation
- You did go to school, Blair?
- New Page
- New Page
- Sick-boys
- Pscyho-sexual cripples
- Understanding
- Oh and because I know you're thick...
- Another scalp for the sick-boys
- So, pig-bitch
- Pig-bitch 2
- Pig-bitch 3
- Functionally illiterate
- How you hate human
- The ghost in the machine was riled
- Dear MI5 person
- Or perhaps Linch and Goldstone prefer...
- Yes
- First part of Fal
- Fal 2
- Fal and Tet
- You, Blair
- This site will self-destruct...
- Left out repeating the juicy bit
- Hi to the University of Witwatersrand or wherever
- You are really very funny
- You are really very funny
- How very funny
- As if
- If...
- Can it be more obvious>
- Conclusion
- The initiation of force
- A busted flush
- Shall we have that again?
- The sum of the ravings
- This meanwhile
- But of course
- Point-blank rejection of the governing system of the country
- What part of fuck off does the Vatican not understand?
- Please save the crackling
- Happy Hallowe'en
- This bit's fun too
- Time it was
- Oh you know, like this
- Screw you....
- As if
- NHS bureaucracy strikes again
- More asses
- Show's over
- My body, my self
- New Page
- Hate intelligence, hate better
- The Library at Alexandria (and things)
- HARD WIRING A
- Hard wiring B
- Hard wiring C
- And of course they ain't fucking illitrit
- Index Librorum Prohibitorum and things
- New Page
- Jesus, look at them!
- So take a walk on the wild side
- But your Achilles' heel remains
- Addressing an empty crisp packet
- Empty crisp packets
- So here's to you, criminal vermin
- Only 4000 variants
- So they sat there jerking themselves off
- And on no account forget Lattic
- So, Mr Benn's questions
- The contents of the septic tank
- Lizard men
- Playing with my dolls
- Ah, yes, the funny farm
- Hic jacet 2
- New Page
- This was Anglican England
- I really understand
- First part of Fal 2021
- Fal 2 2021
- Fal and Tet 2021
- Trash
- The horoor
- The Reformation
- Uncle Joe and the Na-Mhoram's Grim
- Dixi@ I have spokwn
- And govenment is for what?
- And here is picture of Jesus with his beloved pet ferret
- Your Christmas favourite
- Peter
- And this is what happened
- Les Eleutheromanes
- I repeat, just for the hell of it.
- So I'll just go on thinking my own thoughts
- All times are now (1)
- All times are now (3)
- 'Be careful with that axe, Eugene'
- La Ballade des Pendus
- We do not know
- Banal
- The wrong kind of snow
- Oy, monkey-nuts
- Lizard-men
- And of course they all know too
- Fiver in the Death Warren
- And lo it came to pass
- One way to deal with sexual fuxk-ups
- Dill and this Matter of Kadun 2021
- Frauds
- Complications
- Yes, but I know who I am
- Today satirized as
- Dill, the bit in the middle
- Question
- Ah, but
- What can be wrong with that?
- So what have I done
- And this is the state of my body
- Absolutely insolent, absolutely evil, absolutely degenerate
- Dangerous wild beasts
- Cowardly, contemptible cock=suckers
- Farce
- Thus, m'lud, it is clearly demonstrated
- An offence against law, fact, reason, sanity
- So we go through it all again
- The empty swimming-pool
- So I have questions
- One more bloody time
- It remains the best way
- Get real
- Two to the power of 75000 to one against and falling
- Along with Oolon Colluphid
- Head honcho
- So why - ?
- Civilized behaviour
- 'Be careful with that axe,Eugene' (2)
- Deep Thought
- England in the C21st
- So what's next?
- I do understand
- Right bloody waste of make-up
- An aggressive cancer
- A question of degree (not the academic kind)
- McDonnell's little friends in Iran
- Ah, yes, McDonnell
- Everything was perfectly normal
- Blog
- So when did you hear - ?
- Time for a wash and brush-up
- Time for a wash and brush-up (2)
- So calming
- The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
- Google Images search
- Am enthusiastic amateur classicist
- It only remains therefore
- Aum mani padme hum
- New Page
- WHen everything fails
- Jackson
- Thus
- Tsk, tsk, tsk
- If I may translate...
- Perhaps you prefer - ?
- Roast aurochs
- Totally synbolic, totally not
- Just doesn't matter, does it
- Base details
- History, should there be any
- Libro de los juegos
- Yuck! Kitten-eaters!
- Sea-changes: writing the 60s out of history
- So do just tell
- The end of the world is nigh
- New Page
- The party of law and order
- Thank you, Prime Minister, that will be all
- Fit for human habitation
- Aw, Dimitri!
- Yes? And?
- Ah, bon, les putes
- Indicting Tories
- Poor Mr Sunak
- Falsity
- RL
- Untitled
- The D-word
- Nye, wouldst that thou wert living at this hour!
- Sp gp fpr ot
- Fortunately there are more elevated things to do than contemplate infected shit
- The parable of the respirator
- Arbeit macht frei
- Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
- It's the grapes that come from Chile
- Untitled
- The actual social principles of Christianity
- The social principles of Christianity as observed by Marx
- Bananas and eggs with your polio
- The hallmarks of the age
- Gilead
- Spinal tap
- Purr
- An atypical population
- New Page
- Leche-culs
- The Woman with the Book and the Woman with the Bow
- RTFM
- The ceding of democratic control
- I shit on you daily
- The ceding of democratic control pt 2
- Fortunately there are civilized people to talk to
- This is how to deal with pervert monkeys
- Pink stars and burquas
- Ditching the theology of love: reprise
- A happy communist life
- Or you prefer Nigel?
- Our papa
- My turf, bubba
- Guarding the pigs
- Just a little obvious
- New Page
- BDSM
- The deeds, Naylor, the deeds
- So Sarat, Maya, Cioulis, Spetzi,Ritawa
- And the hunt continues
- Jesus!
- Question for those with daughters
- So what has happened to Jesus?
- New Page
- All on prime-time television
- Lest we forget: I don't
- You know, like at Hokabi and Caniba and so on
- Until they learn
- Vaudos 1: so it's a walking fence
- Vaudos 2
- Vaudos 2.75
- First part of Fal
- Fal 2 2021
- Fal and Tet
- New Page
- Don't forget they ain't fucking illitrit
- There when it gets shitty
- Luke 23:46
- Of course he argued with himself about it.
- Democracy: a system devised to cage and contain power
- If there are any future historians
- What to, the Higgs boson?
- Maya's assassination
- Dill and this Matter of Kadun 2021
- 1. Shav, Petrush and this Matter of Kadun
- Astronomy for Kids of all ages
- 1. Contemplating this Matter of Kadun 1
- 2. Contemplating this Matter of Kadun 2
- 2. Shav, Petrush and the Matter of Kadun 2
- Who are pensioners?
- Party political broadcast...
- Look at all the little lungfish
- Unfit to govern
- Protozoa capering in the primeval soup
- Have you managed to be human?
- Life in a fact-free world
- And of course our dear friends the anti-vaxxers
- The wrong kind of Muggle
- Just put this on Twitter too
- Precisely how - ?
- Aroint thee, Muse!
- Death by government
- Cruel and unusual punishment
- It is, I think, the creation of Vernon and Marge
- Gee, isn't it just the market?
- There would not therefore seem to be an real difference
- The goose that laid the golden eggs
- The gifts that kept on giving
- Only 37.9 million tourists a year
- The Big Squeeze
- All the same gig
- Lolling insolent evil
- So now I walk with a rollator
- So, I deem
- Terror-tactics against a medically vulnerable woman
- New Page
- There is no dark
- Me
- The issues facing my grand-parents
- Don't forget the house that Keir built
- The desire of the moth for the flame
- The way through the woods
- Bit late for me and my steed...
- Art is individualism
- Magdalene laundries
- I told you not to put all the stars out
- Indeed the animals have a big problem with my family
- In the garden with Mummy
- ComSymp
- Chanctonbury Ring
- Doubtless too busy
- Light reading
- Reality 102: reprise
- Reality 103: reprise
- Reality 103a: reprise
- Reality 104: reprise
- Religious census of 1851
- Mortal sin
- If Twitter is anything to go by...
- The 1945 Labour landslide
- So just look at them all, Vice-Chancellor
- And of course an offence to UCL
- Time for a wash and brush-up
- The new Marxism
- Coal in the bath and the victim culture (2)
- Nice bit of bedtime reading
- Christ, you are so boring!
- First part of Fal
- Fal 2 2021
- And of course this
- Just don't forget Lattic
- Thus Bobbles
- Fal and Tet
- Mr Benn's questions.
- Mr Benn's questions. A good clear message. The IRA
- Just so - so - so
- None of this of course is subject to discussion
- Therefore, ain't I got no respect
- Nor do I tug my forelock
- Book of Common Prayer
- 'I know that my Redeemer liveth'
- Meanwhile an offal-fest on Twitter'
- Spine
- This is what they expected me to push
- What? Oh, the picture Jesus mentioned
- Our servants not our masters (2)
- His Majesty's the model of a modern major-general
- The withdrawal of love and forcing oneself on others (2)
- Sarat, Maya, Cioulis, Spetzi,Ritawa reprise
- Journey to the edge of the universe
- Oh they do get so antsy
- I am the very model of a medical practitioner: reprise
- I am the very model of a modern faith apologist: reprise
- Quid agas
- Balrogs
- C10th architects
- Truss and Braverman
- Imbeciles
- As for the rest of it...
- So:
- Totally ordinary Brits
- The corruption of history
- 'Imagination has seized power!'
- So, you, Blair
- Without fear or favour
- So a special round of applause for
- The Anglican garden: reprise
- It is remarkably tedious
- All times are now (1) reprise
- All times are now (2) reprise
- All times are now (3): reprise
- All times are now (4): reprise
- All times are now (5): reprise
- All times are now (6)
- Maya's assassination: reprise
- Lizard-men: reprise
- Doth it not say in the Book of Pious Crap
- That government by the corrupt and inane for the corrupt and inane shall not perish from this earth
- And answer Mr Benn's questions
- Thus the dirty shit-filled hierarchical fascist brains
- PANTHER...
- 'And now Amanda is seriously ill.'
- You might also enjoy Sredni Vashtar
- Girls. You were saying? About girls?
- 'And gentlemen in England, now a-bed, shall think themselves accurs'd...'
- This happened in RL
- Ooh
- HMQ
- How to lose operations other than war
- There, isn't that just so cute:reprise
- Ah, the sub-species woman
- How do you dare?
- Oh look what they're saying about me: reprise
- 'Blinder motions bounded in a shallower brain': reprise
- A lemur speaks!
- Welcome to London, Mr President
- HMQ (2)
- Gee, guys, what might have happened
- Neither benefiting from nor obsesssed by
- In sum, then
- The succession that matters
- In sum, therefore
- It has therefore been established
- And be damned to you: reprise
- Who did impose on a subject of Her Britannic Majesty
- How the cards fell
- Prefer high crimes and misdeameanours
- Time for something else
- Couldn't finish without your favourite song
- The Abbey
- The end of the world is nigh: reprise
- Men don't get it
- 'In order to rightly judge these efforts known as the "woman movement"'
- I'm sure Mr Kwarteng believes in equality
- Get real fast
- Roast aurochs: reprise
- It didn't work last time, peeps
- Doctors
- Ants
- Bellatrix
- Vaudos 1: so it's a walking fence
- Vaudos 2
- Vaudos 2.75
- It's like this, Nurses
- Letter to MI5: reprise
- And you do not make me into a porter
- I do so understand
- How you hate intelligence
- How you hate intelligence; reprise
- So how many people has Medicine destroyed?
- Don't you like my DNA?
- So you're going to sue me?
- I understand
- Hmm, so I guess...
- Yes I understand
- This is how it should be? Reallyy?
- Special mentions
- The wayside
- My country. Took seizin
- To whom it may concern
- Do tell
- A blank wall
- Democracy is so yesterday
- Nothing is too low
- https://www.coursera.org/learn/our-earth?
- No interest to me, old boy. No interest whatever
- Burn the witch at the stake! How much money we shall make!
- One quick question
- And something for Bobbles
- If...
- 'MI5's mission is to keep the country safe.'
- Reality reprise
- Reality reprise 2
- Your life in their hands, Episode 923452
- New Page
- New Page
- Never trust, never assume sanity will prevail
- New Page
- So in short
- The University in its death throes
- Narrow focus
- The absolute insolence, therefore
- In shorter
- Same old
- Same old (2)
- So there it is
- So they just couldn't possibly
- Ringleaders
- Encore une fois the manual
- Butchers and would-be murderers
- Nor of course response to my vid
- Or the second one
- The closed (sealed/wounded/stunted/practically non-existent) mind (20
- Please don't forget The House That Keir Built
- Sarat, Maya, Cioulis, Spetzi,Ritawa
- First part of Fal
- Fal 2 2021
- Fal and Tet
- So who knows
- As if I were capable of caring
- Above the law
- Depict them therefore in bondage
- Money talking
- Pure BDSM
- Please don't forget Lattic
- Meeee
- 'There is no dark'
- Hellenismos, tau-neutrinos, hanging
- Vita brevis ars longa
- True targets
- I a woman
- Boring
- Therefore, Vice-Chancellor
- Thus I refer you to...
- Break the stupid cunt's back
- So there it is
- irreducible evil
- Oversight
- Mock, yes, crawl, no
- All the things you haven't changed
- Cute family picture
- You can check it out on the DTIC site
- Eagles are rare in WC1
- High crimes and midemeanour
PANTHER -> Site news -> Marianne
by Ysabel Howard - Thursday, 7 July 2011, 07:31 PM
From the Website of the Prime Minister of France. My translation underneath L'image de La Marianne trouve son origine dans l'Antiquité. Le bonnet phrygien est porté par les affranchis de l'Empire romain, esclaves auxquels leur maître a rendu la liberté et dont les descendants sont considérés de ce fait comme citoyens de l'Empire. La Démocratie est déjà représentée sous des traits féminins ; à ses pieds un gouvernail et un sac de blé à moitié renversé; peu soucieuse de puissance, elle se préoccupe en effet surtout des aspirations du peuple. Marianne dans les tourments de la Révolution française A partir de 1789, des sculptures, des tableaux, représentent des personnages féminins portant les valeurs de la Révolution française au premier rang desquelles est placée la Liberté. La Liberté apparaît sous les traits d'une jeune femme, portant une robe courte et tenant dans sa main droite une pique ornée du bonnet phrygien. C'est une guerrière symbolisant l'idée que la liberté s'acquiert par les armes. Parfois, cette figure de la Liberté paraît plus sage, plus grave, drapée d'une longue robe tunique, dans une posture plus sereine. Elle perd alors nombre de ses attributs dont le bonnet phrygien, porté par les révolutionnaires. L'Egalité prend aussi la forme d'une jeune femme suivie par des enfants portant les symboles des trois ordres de l'ancien régime : les outils agricoles du Tiers-État, la Bible du Clergé et la couronne de la Noblesse, synthèse de l'ancienne et de la nouvelle France. A l'origine, L'Egalité tient dans ses mains une balance en équilibre, celle du Jugement dernier, mais les artistes révolutionnaires lui préfèrent le niveau, symbole d'égalité plus que d'équité. La Fraternité tient un bâton surmonté du coq gaulois et derrière elle, deux enfants mènent attelés ensemble un lion et un mouton.
En 1792, la jeune République choisit de s'incarner sous les traits de Marianne, la mère-patrie. Marianne est souvent armée et casquée, comme l'Athéna grecque. La République est guerrière et protectrice, elle combat pour défendre ses valeurs, au premier rang desquelles la Liberté, comme à Valmy où, face à la réaction monarchiste, elle affirme sa vocation universelle. Un décret de 1792 dispose que "le sceau de l'État serait changé et porterait pour type la France sous les traits d'une femme vêtue à l'antique, debout, tenant de la main droite une pique surmontée du bonnet phrygien, ou bonnet de la Liberté, la gauche appuyée sur un faisceau d'armes; à ses pieds un gouvernail". Marianne a retrouvé des attributs anciens, notamment le lion et le trône, mais elle tient dans ses mains, outre l'épée ou le faisceau d'armes, le drapeau tricolore français. A ses pieds, on trouve la loi et la Déclaration des Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen présentée au monde. The image of Marianne has its origins in antiquity. The Phyrygian cap was worn during the Roman Empire by slaves who had been given their freedom and so become citizens of the Empire. Democracy had already been depicted as a woman at whose feet were the wheel of the ship of state and a bag of wheat; caring little for power, she concerned herself above all with the aspirations of the people Marianne in the throes of the French Revolution From 1789 onwards, sculptures and paintings appeared representing the women embodying the values of the French Revolution, supreme among them Liberty. Liberty was depicted as a young woman in a short tunic and in her right hand a lance topped by a red cap, a female warrior symbolizing the notion that liberty is won by force. Sometimes she is more sombre, clad in a long dress, with a more ladylike pose and without a number of her previous attributes, of which the red cap is one. Equality takes the form of a young woman with children behind her who bore the symbols of the three estates of the old order, the agricultural implements of the Third Estate, the Bible of the clergy and the coronet of the aristocracy, uniting the old France and the new… Fraternity holds a baton topped by the French Cockerel, with behind her two children leading a lion and a sheep harnessed together. In 1792 the infant Republic decided to embody itself as Marianne, mother of her country, often armed and helmeted like the Greek Athena, who fights to defend the values of the Republic, at the forefront of which is Liberty….Marianne had regained her former features…At her feet were the law and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen presented to the world.
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PANTHER -> Site news -> Le quatorze juillet
by Ysabel Howard - Thursday, 7 July 2011, 07:26 PM
Français, pour nous, ah ! quel outrageFrenchmen, for us, ah! What outrage
Quels transports il doit exciter !What fury it must arouse!
C'est nous qu'on ose méditerIt is us they dare plan
De rendre à l'antique esclavage !To return to the old slavery!
Free and democratic people have no problem with what the free world is about. It's about being free and democratic. Not having anyone set above you to hit you, not being frightened to speak, to be yourself not the person some fart says you have to be.
What happened to Aquarius? Written out of the version of history used by politicians
This is, or at any rate starts as, a story of the class of ’68 (’69, ’70, ’71, ’72…) of ageing Marxist radicals now in power who never learned to keep their hands off others and their hippy contemporaries who learned cessation from hankering; of what was new about ‘New Labour’, of the assault on freedom and democracy politicians deny is happening (they're leading it, of course they deny it’s happening), of religious authority rearing its ugly head 220 years after the death of Voltaire, of the Age of Aquarius versus the Age of Reptiles. We deal here with the Matter of Britain, a lump of chalk to which a clod of earth is attached, out of which sprout a dense tuft of grass, several buttercups, old-man's-beard and bluebells. It usually resides on Merlin’s desk. Closer examination reveals tiny worms and bugs about their business. Merlin uses it as an example of a self-contained eco-system. It makes an unusual paperweight.
This is the dawning of the Age of Nefarius. The moon was wrongly directed and never reached the seventh house, Jupiter and Mars having being too busy abusing each other to give clear and accurate instructions. If she had got there, she'd have found squatters barricaded in while property developers took them to the courts. In the New Age Nineties everything was to change, the extent to which it changed being quantifiable in 1997 when things could only get better, because (it was thought) they couldn't get any worse.
Spring came to London in a flurry of pink toe-nails as young women slipped into sandals, for we are still in the times when nail-varnish was as though by law some shade of red from Murderess Scarlet to Ghoul Oyster. The black scooters began to appear. The streets of the city burst into bud and buddleia, overhanging the pavements, a peril to the sight-impaired, the laden, the two abreast. Councils busied themselves sending out admonitions to the offending householders. In the parks the crocuses chirped, the daffodils more cautious looked around questioningly, perhaps remembering when it had snowed in April, the lake in St James's Park came alive with fluff-ball ducklings and cygnets, the Household Cavalry in Whitehall, booted and spurrred, maintained stiff upper lips under steel helmets, never even smiling for the camera. Life is tough in theme-park London, where nothing is real except that most entrenched of illusions, the self. There are pelicans in St James's Park. Do they clone? Who has seen an infant pelican? A TV Licensing Authority poster denouncing five licence-less denizens of Queen's Crescent NW5 had been partly torn from its hoarding, presumably by a midnight gang from Queen's Crescent interrupted in flagrante; it flapped sadly in the breeze. Buddleia sprouted from invisible crannies. And so god is in his heaven and all is right with his world. Iamgodiam, soaring above you feeble earthlings, here in my rotored heaven. The earth is rushing up to meet me but I embrace it. Kerplop. I struggle to my feet. Fallen angels, everyone knows about fallen angels. A fallen god? I start walking. To the East, Naked Capitalism confronted Inner-City Decay. The whore whined. The eunuch raged at his impotence. As ever, she offered herself to the highest bidder, and so they built a shrine to Capital at Canary Wharf. Trade rolls up its sleeves and employs labourers and supervisors, warehousemen, fork-lift truck drivers, lightermen (once, lightermen). Capital preens and employs bankers. Outside the hall of mirrors, the rot is evident but no Eternal Dentist comes to drill it out. No sky-god ever has properly fulfilled his obligations. Loss of faith surprises? Here among the potted palms of Faceless Capital there is no loss of faith. See the laughing brook rippling over plastic pebbles of uniform size and carefully toning hue for they are available in a wide range of colourways. This is a place of work or a stage-set for the Garden of Eden? You deal till you reel. Is there more to life than moving money around the globe? Like pigs ready for slaughter they go to the Market. The Market will provide. Clearly the Market does not provide, here where the kids have found a pensioner to rape and they shoot up in the high street, but why should it? When people reject all human experience bar momentary sensory gratification and the thrill of injury to others, why should anyone care what happens to them? Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask only what your country can do for you. If your country does not provide you with decency, your country has failed you: discuss. Here where the lifts are always broken and the filthy stone stairways reek of urine and vomit, your country is not responsible, but only your fellow-citizens and poverty did not make them thus, nor does poverty keep the off-licences and the dealers flush. Who today believes in the poor, as he steps delicately round the huddled figure in the doorway? There is no such thing as decent poverty as the old are advised unctuously to be sensible, abandon their bedrooms and sleep, eat, live (die) in a single heated room, for why should anyone expect to heat an entire property, so wasteful of valuable natural resources. Best too to stay inside, for your own good, because the streets are not safe. Animals! scream the tabloids. Animals can be put down. The problem with the unemployed and unemployable, uneducated, vicious, destructive is that they are human. It's not their fault. It's all that Faceless Capital who done it. So: the streets are not safe and decent folk durstn't venture out after dark. But the packed trains to the suburbs late at night belie this, the cinemas, the discos surely would have to close - and when children are murdered by other children it happens in daylight. Perhaps there are no decent folk or only the old, the halt, the blind, and they don't count. The gap, one must always mind the gap - one cannot avoid The Gap. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, sociology sez, and we know who the rich are, they have yachts and jewels, while the poor sleep in the doorways of the Strand, but most people are neither. Are more people becoming rich, more people becoming poor? Houses bought for 2/6 in the 1930s are now worth half a million and the rate of repossession spirals. The wrong kind of snow falls gently on the Hospital, its Gothic turrets transformed by faery, while London grinds to a halt below. Christmas approaches. The eyes of little children light up with pure greed. It is chill on the parapets of the Hospital and the feral writers huddle together for warmth or struggle for shelter beneath the lion and the unicorn. Ironically, the ectoplasmic, insulated by non-being, enjoy the warmth of the over-heated Wards. There is a flu epidemic: Pestilence is busy. War is in the air. Famine must wait his turn, for capitalism has not yet collapsed under the weight of its internal contradictions. Death is never out of fashion. Poverty is to be cold and hungry and without the wherewithal to do anything about it. It is also abandonment, the knowledge no-one will fix the lift or clean the stairs - or that, if they do, the destroyers will set to work once more. Poverty is despair. Why is something not done? Once upon a time hard-working men and women had wanted a fair reward for their labour. Once upon a time it had been thought unjust (not only unjust but a waste of talent) that bright people be denied by poverty the chance to succeed. Once upon a time there was no NHS. These times are within living memory but who listens to the old? Once upon a time too there were those who had fallen through the net and they were taken by the scruff of the neck and taught self-respect by their own. Once upon a time the Labour Party represented the demand for decency. If this is not the end of history, then historians will ask when hard graft, decency, self-improvement came to be derided as Tory values, when those upright honourable Labour men and women of the past, who wouldn't dream of lying, cheating, slacking, thieving, were shat on. So Bambi will tell us. For once he told the truth. The extent to which he will subscribe to that truth will be another matter. Once there was an industrial revolution. People wanted to better themselves. There were riots in London in the Victorian era, no-go areas too, but that, you see, was because nothing was done. The purpose of the Labour Party was that all be brought into the political process, be informed, argumentative, aware, the purpose of free education that all had the chance to pull themselves out of illiteracy and ignorance, not that illiteracy and ignorance become standard. You can read in The Big Issue street-people who say the glazed eye is the worst, but Phil the commuter does not despise those who serenade him, indeed admires them, for it takes great courage each night to enter carriages full of stressed, exhausted people and sing them the same song, not least when their expressions make plain they had headaches to start with. Shall we sell all we have and give the proceeds to the poor? Do we own anything apart from our debts, our 30-year mortgages and our wallets full of plastic? There remains that niggling line about a camel and the eye of a needle. Joshua ben Miriam, Isa ibn Maryam, small-time hippy preacher, proved an unsuitable role-model for the modern age. Look what happened to him, after all. Born loser. Nonetheless, he gave a framework in which to mock the shallow, the trivial, the dedicated follower of fashion. Now appearance is all. Hymn the body beautiful, worship it. It's all there is. Argument by authority is a fallacy. Therein too lie our roots. The Great Lie has it that the one has triumphed over the other. Liberated from the shackles of religion, we are post-modern, the Enlightenment come of age. Naturally our new gods are irrationality and ignorance. I wanna corrupt the young, thought Surf viciously. You know, like Socrates.
DEATH: THE MANUAL
RJ Rummel in Death by Government estimates that Stalin was responsible for 43 million deaths, Hitler for 21 million deaths and Mao for 38 million deaths, but in those times to be on the Left was regarded as a loveable idiosyncrasy while to be on the Right was beyond the Pale and the newt, crawling behind the skirts of an increasingly illiberal 'liberalism', continued largely unchallenged to propagate the myth of the Left as right-on progressive guys; to detest Leftists was to be some kind of loony McCarthyite opponent of Gardless communism and we remember the Holocaust while the gulags and political re-education camps go unrecalled. On no account when turning the universities over to those who read moving their lips, proclaiming the uselessness of the study of mediaeval history and demanding that all must be made new, should we recall Mao’s Cultural Revolution.
The signifiers in the iconography of popular culture that had influenced the young Dezzi were Lady Penelope, Purdey and Mrs Peel. She went on to play the patriot game, even without microfilm in tampons. In the Century of the Fruitcake damsels in distress do not collapse if men do not rescue them. Cry goddess! for Henrietta, England, and St Georgina. St Georgina of course was the petite one who concealed a dagger and an aqualung in her bodice, walked into the dragon’s maw, slit its jugular and swam to the surface. ‘And gentlemen in England, now a-bed, shall think themselves accurs’d.’
The Axe is not a dramatic river, being most of its life a dribble, and barely evident even at the ford at Axminster, a quiet, grey market-town only seven miles from the sea, where once a Mr Hennington began carpet-weaving. Few people know that England makes magic carpets. The old carpet-factory is by the station where you get off the London train, there being on this line that dawdles Westward Ho! out of Waterloo only two trains, the London train and the Exeter train, this line not so much InterCity as InterJunction, which takes four hours (and for heaven's sake who has four hours!) to wander into Exeter Central. You count the number of people who leave the train with you. You watch them disperse, some by foot, some onto buses, some into cars. You loiter outside the station consulting your watch as though waiting for someone to collect you, a common enough occurrence in the country. You recognize that a tail might be lurking at the junction with the main road, but you don't really think anyone followed you, anyone knows you are significant. You tap your foot. You sigh. You take out your mobile, but it appears you receive no reply. You sigh once more and peer around, then stride purposefully over to the small hut with 'TAXI' on it. It is a good thing your city angst is faked, for Devon Slow don' move 'asty for anything bar imminent birth or death. Never think 'laid-back' is a modern invention. You ask for the Harbour Inn in Axmouth. Your business is escape-routes of a somewhat unorthodox kind. Cats do not like getting their feet wet. The village of Axmouth is now visibly notable for not being at the mouth of the Axe, for silt filled the estuary. It is said that the first cider in Devon was made here, sometime in the 1280s. Axmouth boasts one street, two pubs, two lanes, a charming stream (so the guidebooks call it, and this may matter for the need to cross running water is well documented) and a campsite, which in the winter is the football pitch (in other words a field). Hawksdown Hill glowers above. There the Ancient British, the Dumotiges or Dunroamiens or some such tribe, had a fort, for the Fosse Way ran through the Axe valley. The street runs from Tanyard Cross down to the river. A motor-road follows the river until sharp right is the ramshackle bridge that leads into Seaton. Continue straight ahead and the road becomes a muddy track leading to the mouth of the river and the sea. The cliff rises steeply and if you are clever you will see the scrabbles in the chalk made by generations of local children that become a slippery, slidey and dangerous path that hoiks you up onto the cliff-top and the Axe Vale Golf-Course. The members will not welcome you on their golf-course, but if you slither off quickly to the right, deep in the gorse and the rosebay-willow-herb, you will join the public footpath that leads into ye mildly well-known Landslip, where in 1839 eight million tons of cliff tired of height and dominance and jumped into the sea, taking cottages, orchards and people with them. You rackon on Loyme. As you begin the long trek across the cliff to Lyme Regis, civilization intrudes but lightly and usually in the form of Trespassers William, for the track is part of the South West Coastal Path and All Hallows School little relishes long-distance walkers picnicking on its playing-fields. Other discreet notices rightly warn you to keep to the path because the cliff is unreliable and it is a long sharp drop to the English Channel below. The wilderness is untamed. You will probably meet no-one and the experience is a salutary reminder that it is unnecessary to visit the Yukon in order that if you fall and break a limb no-one will find you. For this the mobile 'phone was invented. It is smugglers' country and the ghosts of drownded sailor-men abound. They will try to sell you beer and baccy and look in astonishment as you lecture them on lung cancer, air pollution and the risk of fire, but if they take a liking to you they will take you down to the sea-bed and show you the hulk of the Maria Santonia, the Spanish treasure-ship, where the gold still glimmers under the barnacles and the white bones of would-be plunderers. The Landslip is of course an exquisite site for a murder if you are unprepared. You are not. In any case, you are not yet a murderee, enter Dorset and come into Lyme through emerald meadows. There you take tea and shelter from the spray battering the Cobb, the great pier that forms part of the harbour-wall. Somewhere out there are the lifeboat-men but it is no man you have come to see nor yet the French Lieutenant's Woman but an ichthyosaur. There bin Annings, there bin 'Awkins, there bin 'Ardings, there bin Spillers goan on time immemorial. Mary Anning, aged 12, of the parish of Lyme, discovered the first English ichthyosaur. Time is thin in the Jurassic ridges of the south-west. As do all little girls who discover strays, she fashioned a collar and lead out of her ribbons and took it home. This of course gave rise to the famous nursery-rhyme 'Mary found an ichthyosaur./She’m led it to the Carbb./Her Papa were so proud of ‘er,/He gave to her two barb.' The ichthyosaur swims in the bay, Mary gazing at it fondly from her rocking-chair in the porch of her villa on the Esplanade. Tropical Britain arose tranquilly from out the azure main in the Eocene, and verdant it was. Some 40 to 50 million years before, that which is now Britain was part of the Continent and so you walked to where is now Paris, or would have, had you existed. I existed, but that is a long story I shall save for later. Suffice it to say for the moment that the Cretaceous offers a relatively dry exit from a troubled island. There are of course hazards - tyrannosauri, pterodactyls and mere quicksand. As the young say, you have to have been there. I gain first-hand knowledge. An interminable bus-ride returns you to Axminster Station. You pass the factory. You might be on your way into the pretty village of Musbury, but no, you leave the road, negotiate the stile. The cows regard you with apparent lack of interest, but Jemima (a small Friesian) catches the eye of Dorothea (a stout Jersey): they know and report accordingly. The farm-house has been modernized. The kitchen is fitted. The Range Rover stands outside. Jason's study has not been modernized. It is dark, probably oak, though the walls are so densely hung with carpets that it is hard to tell. You do not know how to come straight out with "I want a magic carpet." so you sit there projecting warmth and happiness while Jason, small, stout, wearing a navy-blue jersey, a dilapidated tweed jacket with leather patches at the elbows, jeans and wellies, fiddles with a packet of ginger-nuts and asks how your journey was. The packaging defeats him. He looks up apologetically. You continue to sip your tea. "What an interesting room," you observe brightly. If the eight-pointed star that is the centre-piece were cut into a marble floor, ah-hah! you would think. It isn't. It is simply a design on yet another carpet, cream on black. "I suppose it doesn't show the mud." Jason is dark, craggy, tanned walnut, as are only countrymen out all day every day, but this strikes a false note, for surely no-one rises at five to be out in the fields milking the magic carpets. "Did you ever read E Nesbit?" he asks. "Camden Town, I believe," you say. "The London branch," sighs Jason. "Rents too high. Had to close it. What do you want a carpet for?" The question worries you. Is it a test of your moral worth? Perhaps it is merely that there are differences between carpets, some more suited to short hops, others to long-haul flights. "It may," you murmur, "be necessary to depart somewhat rapidly and there is no guarantee transatlantic flights…" "Where will you keep it?" asks Jason. Stupidly it comes into your head, a carpet is for life, not just for Christmas. "I have an aunt," you say, "a retired lady. I am on the move. She'll look after it." Jason continues sipping, expecting more. "She's one of us." "Who," asks Jason, "is 'us'?" "I am a traveller." Jason laughs: pull the other one! I smile, amend. "A travelling-man.” Jason smiles back. The room swirls. Now we are in wattle and daub. Jason, never a congruous figure, has entered into the spirit of the thing, adding woad and a torque to his outfit. "There will be a moot," he says tranquilly. The hill-men gathered in their wolf-skin cloaks heavy with the silver buckles and hilts of the west pay us no heed. They draw their daggers and place them in a circle, points touching what was the centre of the star, but becomes the Imperial Eagle. Fighting happens next and chariots and the village burning but the legions are not winning, although I cannot determine why they are not. Jason has vanished. As is my wont in such situations, I try to make myself useful, dragging the wounded to places of relative safety and so forth, an inter-temporal Red Cross in locations where neither the symbol nor the act has significance, and indeed there is swiftly a dagger at my throat for tending a Roman. Fortunately I am out of Time, and dying is fundamentally a time-dependent act. As always, part of my mind remains detached, and I calculate or try to calculate what bearing Asterix version anglaise has on the matter at hand. "I have it!" Jason whispers hoarsely. He has acquired a few streaks of blood and grime, contrasting prettily with the woad, but seems unharmed. "What?" "The Stone." My mind hunts through the stones to which he might be referring. The Rosetta Stone? The Stone of Scoon? "Oh," I say, "that Stone." There was or rather will be a sword in a stone. Much is made of the sword. We are back in 2001 and Jason places in the centre of his carpet a turf, a lump of chalk. I waited. Nothing continued to happen. "Touch it," suggested Jason. It chimed. "Something for the tourists?" I sneered. Jason sighed heavily. Clearly I was being very obtuse. "So long as you don't tell me it's the Rock." "It is," he said, "the Matter of Britain." Sea-farers found this tropical paradise, though the history-books will tell you that men (women and men) migrated across the land-bridge. Did I say they were human? Sprites and spirits too may be affected by Wanderlust, even dryads. There came the Celts and the Celts did what they do best, which is produce poets. Any poet worth his or her bardic crown lives in two worlds, the Irish fili, the Welsh derwydd, seers, priests and judges, thinking to have invented the goddess and keeping faith with her though somewhat off the edge, with the disconcerting habits of speaking in tongues and constructing Tree-Alphabets. Then came the military man, the Roman, the practical man, the Saxon not yet Anglo, the Norman not yet English and with them their gods but though there was physical conquest there was intellectual defeat for the poets took these strange languages and made them their own and Reason paired off with the goddess. The power of poetry grew and the heart of England remained on the wild side, which in modern parlance means free because no-one who has a stunted, rigid, rat-like little brain stuffed with dogma and regulations ever got near to writing a poem (this peculiar cultural synthesis is why the King James Version of the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer are among many other things pure poetry) and the stunted, rigid and rat-like had to put up with it and coped as best they could by dismissing poetry as nothing to do with anything that matters. The goddess became a democrat. Her statue is in New York Harbour. Cultural syntheses indeed are strange things, nothing less resembling the goddess than the squat and warty figure of Cromwell who said the king-god had to go, and you will not be the first to note that the nation's successes and excesses were magnified under its queens, with the exception of course of poor Queen Anne, who as we know is dead. The Christians naturally put their own cover on the allegory of the grail, as the goddess had before them, the Great Womb and all that. The grail is filled with blood signifiying life. While the grail is unrecognized, the land remains a wasteland and the Fisher King unhealed. I could think of a number of candidates for the Fisher King. None of this explains why the damned thing chimed. "The Acacia Avenue effect?" "It has a sense of humour." "Ah," I said. "What else can it - you do?" "Change state," suggested Jason. I glowered at him. The Matter of Britain jumped onto my lap – I say ‘jumped’. Lurched, propelled itself, sprang. It seemed almost weightless. "I scratch your ears? You are not big enough," I scolded, "to have a sword embedded in you." "Shakespeare," said Jason. "Interesting chap. Even when not - oh no. 'This precious stone set in the silver sea,/Which serves it in the office of a wall,/Or as a moat defensive to a house.'" I fingered the grasses. "Narnia," said Jason. "Yeah, yeah," I said. "Bigger on the inside than the out. It's terribly symbolic, of course." So far this was a war of words and lies. I was at a loss to see what even a magic clod could achieve when it became a shooting-war. "I suppose this isn't the grail?" I began, not to put too fine a point on it, to stroke the Matter of B. "This isn't the grail. Puck took it as seizin, and so it passed into the hands of the Guardian." Merlin. It was responding - purring, not to put too fine a point on it. "It? Is that quite polite?" The Matter of B stretched and rubbed its head against my jacket. That at least was the illusion. "I think you have been adopted." "Oh, I see," I said. It figured. It was not that the sword allowed Arthur to take it, but that the Matter of B let the sword go. What we have learned to call the gender-dynamic is here too obvious to need stating. "Don't I have to be sans peur et sans reproche?" "Just don't do a Lancelot." I found this an unnecessary intrusion on the complications of my domestic affairs. "The Frigid Four are looking for it. Apocalyptics Inc." I do not doubt that matters are dire, but that seems to me excessive. "Who stands if England fall?" It is a difficult question. The rugged self-determination of our American friends - a difference is they have got/the Second Amendment: we have not - the dogged independence that willed the settlers out West to build lives unfettered is related to but not synonymous with our English wild side. "Am I supposed to guard it?" No, no! I completed my transaction and returned to London. Four hours is a long time in which to dwell upon why that particular privilege had been accorded me and I reached certain very definite conclusions, almost the right ones. In the farmhouse Britannia came out of the kitchen and put her arms around Taliesin’s neck. “Jason, darling?” Tal grinned. “Taliesin, a name to be noted, even in the Age of Ignorance.” “Your papa a Welsh bard. Well?” “Clearly one of us.” “But you don’t know who!” “He found us. He has contacts. Was I to say, now, sir, to help us serve our customers better, a little market research. How did you hear of our company?” “You could have,” said Britannia.
Taliesin took a flight to New York. "I have had a visitor." "You don't say," murmured Miss Liberty. "I'm not sure," said Taliesin irritably. "Pisses you, don' it," said Miss Liberty. "Oi tink 'twas himself," said Taliesin. "You Brits don't introduce yourselves no more?" asked Ms L. "Really, my dear, do you have to be so aggressively American!" "Aux armes, citoyens, aux armes, citoyennes! Is that the first time anyone was not exclusive?" "Need to know. Code-name: Little Lamb." Miss Liberty spluttered. "As in, said the shepherd-boy to the little lamb, do you see what I see!" "And the shepherd is Merlin? Now why should Arthur not introduce himself?" "Feeling his way? It's not his kind of war. Some crap about escape-routes. It was the Matter of Britain. Fell upon him like a long-lost brother and how did he know?" "I have a date. Join us, do." "You need a chaperone? Les armes." "It is one big debate." "Where is the cut-off point?" "When the police fail to protect the citizen, the citizen must be able to protect himself. Or of course herself. When the State becomes so anti-libertarian that it assaults the fundamental rights of the citizen - that cannot apply to the UK, unless a government so far to the Right or to the Left is elected that it repeals civil liberties legislation. "A country stops being free when its citizens no longer understand freedom, when they no longer think and feel like, react like free people, when they are afraid and subordinate, to the power of others, to the opinions of others, when the language of liberal democracy becomes a ancient tongue no longer taught today, incomprehensible. Power is now in the hands of these people. Another generation and - corrupt education and the whole lot goes. Parliament goes about its business, but the hearts and minds of influential people are not in accord. That is our situation. Where the hell is Merlin?" "Have to hand it to them," said Miss Liberty. I am not Arthur. Indeed, I am flattered! I am something more - complicated, yes, I think that is the word. Nor am I the old mage himself! Sometimes I think I may be Oberon, but no, I am not Oberon. Human identity is a difficulty for me, a mask only. I am Tiger. Today I survive in the popular consciousness almost entirely in the form of Tigger. I admit to enjoying Mr Milne's portrayal. That by Mr Disney I find a little hard to take. There are supposed sightings of course; millennia have passed since last I frequented Bodmin Moor. I met Oberon and became man, was drawn into the Guild, I suppose one could call it. Oberon is Shepherd-Boy, Titania that Mary who had a little lamb. You recall of course a third Mary reputed to have had a little Lamb in Bethlehem. You begin to understand the complexity of history become myth. That is excellent. But I have confused you! Your rational mind squeaks that I have produced a circular reference, like Excel. We play. Oberon is Eldest. But not a god, dear me, we do not care for gods and even human beings with their extraordinary propensity for worship never made that mistake, though I confess that in its infancy the species worshipped, or at least sought to propitiate me. Ah, Titania! The allusion to my personal life - surely he had guessed! But he had not. The Fall of Guinevere has eluded me, nor in my heart do I wish it, for enough treason abounds. But I am a man in love. Or Tiger.
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Extracts from The Matter of Britain.
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