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Stranger things and spiritual socks
I briefly braved the wilds of Primark the other day, to purchase some winter socks (not the most thrilling introduction to an article, I know, but…
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EXPERIMENT: The Spooky Side of Roald Dahl
Despite my best efforts to disguise potentially offending words with “!”s and “@”s, Substack decided to age-restrict my last article (‘The Spooky Side…
Dec 4
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The Spooky Side of Roald Dahl
As I seem to be on a bit of a ‘Roald’ (argh, sorry) with the exposing of beloved children’s literary figures, and their increasingly obvious connections…
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AUDIO: The Handmade Tale
Last week’s rapacious UK budget is the latest sledgehammer blow to the economy, the high street, and, in particular, to small business.
Dec 2
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November 2025
Junking juries, and abolishing anonymous internet
It’s not often that two of my predictions (which are less derived from any mystic or psychic prowess, alas, and more from simple pattern recognition…
Nov 28
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AUDIO: C.S. Lewis and the Freud mind-control dynasty
In what is officially the most controversial article I’ve ever written (not because of what my readers said about it, but because Substack slapped it…
Nov 27
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C.S. Lewis and the Freud mind-control dynasty
Yes.
Nov 24
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The Handmade Tale
I had a rather nasty shock earlier this month when, for the first time in a while, I ventured out into Huddersfield town centre on a Saturday night.
Nov 17
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AUDIO: A peculiar practice indeed
Something strange is happening to society, where difference, debate and (real) diversity are being increasingly eliminated, in favour of an increasingly…
Nov 16
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A peculiar practice indeed
I had a little chuckle to myself when I learned recently that one of my childhood friends had become a feminist Marxist academic.
Nov 13
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AUDIO: On a knife edge
It seems the propaganda press is very keen for us to believe that the UK is so awash with dangerous knife criminals that we are never safe: not when…
Nov 9
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AUDIO: "Neurodiversity", needles, and 9am gin...
As a bombshell new report confirms what we already knew - that vaccination is the single biggest preventable determinant of autism - I take a deep dive…
Nov 5
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