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Twenty-First Century Socialism
00) What’s New & Main Menu
10) Ideas and Ideals
10.1) More Ideas
Does the ‘Right Stuff’ exist?
Sir James Goldsmith: Rich, Loud and Ignorant
Sociocide – Liberalism’s True History
The Enlightenment’s Limited Light
The Trotskyist Origins of US Neo-Cons
Why I Call It a Global Night-Club
10.2) Further Ideas
Classes in Britain in 2011
Fukuyama on History after the Gulf War
How the Left Created Modern Ideas of ‘The Normal’.
How to prevent school massacres
Pascal, the Jesuits and Plato
Raymond Williams Remembered
The World View behind the Gulf War
Baby Boomers to Blame?
Business Success a Mix of Skill and Luck
Everyone and Anyone are Rival Simplifications of Human Nature
Khrushchev Influenced By Trotskyism
Thatcher struck at the roots of Britishness
The Left Redefined ‘The Normal’
The World as a Global Night-Club
Why ‘The Individual’ is a muddled idea
Why Trotsky’s politics achieved nothing solid
15) Science
15.1) More science
Blond Hair not Racial
Cooking Made Us Human
Gifts Close to Madness?
Letter About Memes
Rational Chimps, Hobbits and Starch-Eating Humans
The Evolution of Bees
Why Motherhood Exists
15.2) Yet More science
Fearsome dinosaur-eating mammals (deceased)
Superorganisms – Ant Nests and Human Religions
The Decline of US Science
The Large Hadron Collider in 2008
Why Only Some Children Bounce Back From Bad Childhoods
And So Say All of Me
Big fierce animals are losers
Chimp DNA Changed More Than Ours
Chimps Are Never Tame
Dark Skin, Blue Eyes – the Original Europeans
Evolution Prevented By Competition
Human Altruism and Psychopathy
Is Giftedness Tied to Cultural Values?
Mice more evolved than humans
Natural Selection as ‘Survival of the Grandkids’
Should We Fear Alien Civilisations?
The Usefulness of Group Thinking
20) History
Civilisation Alley
Crusaders, Nomads and Conquistadors
Nation States existed long before the Peace of Westphalia
Religion and Capitalism
Rival British Christianities of the 17th Century
Steven Pinker Misunderstands the Enlightenment
The ‘White Race’ does not exist
The original guerillas of Spain
The Seven Months War of 1914 – Part 1
The Seven Months War of 1914 – Part 2
The Seven Months War of 1914 – Part 3
The Seven Months War of 1914 – Part 4
The Seven Months War of 1914 – Part 5
Why The Ming Sea Voyages Led To Nothing
30) Britain
30.1) More on Britain
Ed Miliband’s anti-state legacy
How New Labour Emerged from 1970s Labour Leftism
Orwell Looking Down on British Workers
Poppy Day after the Iraq War
The Royal Bank “of Scotland”
William Hague and the 2001 General Election
Arkwright – How Money Conquered Work
Awed by the Amazing Twentieth?
Boris Johnson and the ‘Russian’ Nerve Gas Attack
British Democracy Began in 1884
Fear of Socialism by the Labour Defectors
How the British Empire Blighted Britain
Labour Party Defectors of 2019
Mary Tudor and Elizabeth – almost a beautiful story
Minterism: an English Vanity
Orwell as a British Imperialist
Slavery in the British Empire
The Brixton Riots of 1987
The Legacy of Tony Blair (2007)
The Original Conspiracy Theory (Which Didn’t Include Jews)
Why Labour needs Jeremy Corbyn
40) China (including Tibet)
40.1) More on China
China rejecting the Western political system
Communist China’s 1989 Fight for Survival
Reviewing ‘Mao: the Unknown Story’
Reviewing Martin Jacques ‘When China Rules The World’
The 1989 Tianenmen Crackdown, viewed from 2001
The Hainan Island incident of 2001
40.2) Tibet
How Tibet Emerged Within the Wider Chinese Power-Political Zone
The Strange History of the Dalai Lamas
The Tibetan Race Riots of 2008
Tibet and International Law
Why the West should not be encouraging Tibetan separatism
China’s ‘Three Bitter Years’, 1959 to 1961
Communist China’s survival after the Tiananmen Crackdown
How Mao Modernised Chinese Thinking
45) Fascism & the Two World Wars
45.1) More on Fascism & the World Wars
How Britain Planned World War One
Orwell on Spain and Britain
The British Empire’s Accidental War With Nazi Germany
Was the Brest-Litovsk Peace Unreasonable?
What Churchill really meant by ‘The Few’
Why the Left lost the Spanish Civil War
Britain’s 20th century wars
British and US Genocide
Deaths Caused by Hitler
Hitler’s English Inspirers
How Churchill was Close to Fascism
How Hitler Might Have Had a Victorious Peace
How the Tory Party aided Hitler’s Rise
Raymond Williams in World War Two
The British Empire, the USA and Hitler
Why Churchill Admired Mussolini
Woodrow Wilson’s Deceptive ’14 Points’
48) Anti-Semitism and Zionism
Britain’s Mixed Feelings About Hitler in the 1930s
Criminalising Holocaust Denial
Fewer Anti-Semites in Labour than Tories
Hitler – the 13th Chancellor
Israel as a Western Colony
Israel Taking Too Much
Jews Suffering in the Fall of the British Empire
Ken Livingstone Not Antisemitic
Market Minorities Across the World
Zionism as the Abolition of Jews
Zionism’s Suicidal Militancy
50) Globalisation
50.1) More on Globalisation
David Hutton and “The State We’re In”
Opium City – the story of Hong Kong
Rationality and World History
Thatcherite Concepts of Classlessness
The Anglosphere in 2004
The Internet as Secret Policeman’s Friend
What ‘Stakeholder’ Means
Anti-Globalisation in 2001
Are Top Salaries Really Justified?
David Miliband on Democracy
Degraded Globalisation
How Everything Changed in 1979
Money and Gun-Power – Globalisation as it is
Olympic Sports for the Top Four
Reflections on the Start of the Iraq War
Russia and the Nerve Gas attack on Sergei Skripal
The many versions of democracy
The Web Is Always Insecure
The World After 9/11
Ukraine – Kiev’s Five-Day War Machine
What Was The Minimum for Sovereign States?
Yeltsin’s Final Election and the Near-Return of the Russian Communists
55) Economics
55.1) The Human Basis of Economics
Capitalism Within Culture
Capitalist ‘Managerial Science’ is Highly Collectivist
Economics is About People, Not Money
How we are still paying for fear of Corporatism in the 1970s.
The Unnatural Nature of Commerce
55.2) Adam Smith Misled Us
Adam Smith and the New Right
Adam Smith Faked His Most Famous Claim
Anti-Capitalist, For What?
Arkwright – How Money Conquered Work
Coleridge’s Alternative for the British Economy
Corporations Are Against Individualism
Economics is About People, Not Money
How Real Economic Growth Was Not Based on Adam Smith’s Ideas
The Core Falsehood of Capitalist Economics
The Mixed Economy Won the Cold War
The Original Conspiracy Theory (Which Didn’t Include Jews)
William Petty Describing Real Capitalism
Adam Smith and the New Right
Anti-Capitalist, For What?
Capitalism as a theology
Coleridge’s Alternative for British Capitalism
Ha-Joon Chang’s “23 Things They Don’t Tell You about Capitalism”
How National Economies Really Grow
How Roosevelt’s New Deal Saved the West
Market Winners Rob the Rest of Us
Replacing Capitalism by Capitalism
The Core Falsehood of Capitalist Economics
The errors of New Right economics
Trickle-Down Never Happened
Where new products really come from
Why Profit Needn’t Mean Wealth Creation
William Petty Describing Real Capitalism
60) News Archive
1998 to 2009 – Newsnotes
1998 and 1999 Newsnotes
1996 and 1997 – Newsnotes
Newsnoted 1999 03
Newsnotes 1998 09
Newsnotes 1998 12
Newsnotes 1999 01
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Newsnotes 1999 04
2000 – 2001 Newsnotes
Newsnotes 2000 03
Newsnotes 2001 06
Newsnotes 2001 10
Newsnotes 2001 12
2002 Newsnotes
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2003 Newsnotes
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2004 Newsnotes
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2005 Newsnotes
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2006 Newsnotes
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2007 Newsnotes
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2008 Newsnotes
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2009 Newsnotes
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2010 Newsnotes
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2011 Newsnotes
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2012 Newsnotes
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2013 Newsnotes
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2014 Newsnotes
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2015 Newsnotes
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2016 Newsnotes
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2017 Newsnotes
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2018 Newsnotes
News Blog – August 2018
News Blog – October 2018
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2019 Newsnotes
2019 02 – Blog on Politics
2019 02 – Blog on Science
2019 02 – Blog on Science Fiction & Fantasy
Newsnotes 2019 02
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65) New Right Ideas
Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged
Errors of Friedrich Hayek
Inequality and no ‘Trickle-Down’
International Law and the 1990s
Milton Friedman and his Errors
Models of Democracy
Needless Suffering in the 1840s Irish Potato Famine
New Right Ideas – Hayek and Ayn Rand
70) USA
Bewitched – Television from the 1960s USA
Bill Clinton’s Injustice Towards Iraq
Both Sides Were Racist in the US Civil War
Colin Powell and Vietnam massacres
How the USA Shifted Left after World War Two
Kennedy Assassination – Two Separate Plots?
Obama as Just Another Ineffective President
The Space Shuttle, the ‘Right Stuff’ and Chuck Yeager
73) Democracy
Democracy and one-party states
How John Stuart Mill twisted the idea of liberty
Letter on Democracy and Capitalism
75) Other Politics
1950s British War Crimes in Africa
Bias in the Nobel Peace Prize
Corporations Good, Corporatism Bad?
How Ideologies Collapsed Within the Soviet Union and Within Roman Catholicism
How Marxism Redefined Human Society
How the Vietnam War extended freedom in the West
Japan Doing OK
Starting the Iraq War (2003)
US Reactions to 9/11
US Shysterism in Iraqi in 2004
Variable Eternal Truths about Serbs and Germans
76) Problems Magazine
Agnes Smedley and China’s Red Army
Agnes Smedley in the Sino-Japanese War
Asocialism – the Core Idea of the New Right
Balfour on Cobden and Progress
Balfour Against Free Trade
Balfour Against Progress?
Balfour on Cobden
Balfour on Progress
Cobden, Corn Laws and World War One
Why does Balfour Still Matter?
China: Blue Ants and Dangerous Reds
China: Nurturing Red Stars
Freedom as Misunderstood by Liberals
How Chinese Communism Fixed a Broken Society
How Mao Greatly Strengthened China
In a Hole In a Hole Dwelt a Nothingness
Marxism and the Wrong Turning of 1987 to 1995
Post-Liberalism
Being An Aboriginal European
Chinese Politics Working Well
Why All Freedom Includes Limits
Why Liberal Solutions Are Failing
Russian Christianity and the Bolsheviks
The End of the Road for New Right Ideas
The invention of agriculture and cities
The Mixed Economy Won the Cold War
The West Fails in Five Civilisations
Traditional China Resisted Modernisation
What If the Russian Revolution Hadn’t Happened?
Why China’s ‘Blue Republic’ Achieved Nothing
Gorbachev – Ruining Your Own Country
77) Why Humans Make Religion
Celtic, Germanic, Multicultural
Edmund Burke’s Beliefs
Enoch Powell’s Odd Defence of the Gospels
Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis as Rehashed Religion
Mel Gibson’s ‘The Passion of the Christ’ Twists the Tale
Religions as Imperfect Human Understanding
Unexpected Things said in the Bible
What do we mean by ‘Evil’?
80) Literature
80.1) Literature, Film and Art
Book Covers
Bulstrode: the Complexities of English Hypocracy
Mark Twain, The Unfunny Underside
Mary Shelley’s misinterpreted Frankenstein
Minterism: an English Vanity
Orwell Looking Down on British Workers
Bulstrode: the Complexities of English Hypocracy
Gollum as Stream-of-Consciousness
Mark Twain, The Unfunny Underside
85) Science Fiction & Fantasy
85.1) Tolkien
000) Lord of the Rings, Chapter by Chapter
101) Opening, and A Long-Expected Party
102) The Shadow of the Past
103) Three is Company
104) A Short Cut to Mushrooms
105) A Conspiracy Unmasked
106) The Old Forest
107) In the House of Tom Bombadil
108) Fog on the Barrow-downs
109) At the Sign of The Prancing Pony
110) Strider
111) A Knife in the Dark
112) Flight to the Ford
170) When Would Normal Gold Melt?
180) Gandalf, Rings and Ringwraiths
201) Many Meetings
202) The Council of Elrond
203) The Ring Goes South
204) A Journey in the Dark
205) The Bridge of Khazad-dûm
206) Lothlórien
207) The Mirror of Galadriel
208) Farewell to Lórien
209) The Great River
210) The Breaking of the Fellowship
270) Who Is Tom Bombadil?
301) The Departure of Boromir
302 – The Riders of Rohan
303 – The Uruk-Hai
304 – Treebeard
305 – The White Rider
306 – The King of the Golden Hall
307 – Helm’s Deep
308 – The Road to Isengard
309 – Flotsam and Jetsam
310 – The Voice of Saruman
311 – The Palantir
401 – The Taming of Smeagol
402 – The Passage of the Marshes
407 – Journey to the Cross-roads
408 – The Stairs of Cirith Ungol
409 – Shelob’s Lair
410 – The Choices of Master Samwise
800 – Tying Chapters to Dates
888 – Finding It Hard To Read?
A Letter to Private Eye Defending Tolkien
Defending Tolkien Against Michael Moorcock’s Condemnation
Filming Tolkien
Gollum as Stream-of-Consciousness
Power and Politics in Tolkien’s Work
Tolkien and British History
Tolkien and Le Guin
Tolkien as understood by Peter Jackson, Brian Sibley and Ralph Bakshi
Defending Tolkien Against Michael Moorcock’s Condemnation
Eyes and Illusions in Tolkien and Le Guin
Home Movies of the Soul
How Did Gandalf Find the One Ring?
Mary Shelley’s misinterpreted Frankenstein
My Own Science Fiction
700) Very Short Stories
Becoming Dangerous Yellow
Einstein and the Official Christmas Day
Fire works, Ice Endures
Mistcrap in Flipworld
Turning the Year
Vindalf’s Gift
710) Stories under 1000 words
Third Time Lucky
A close transit of a gas giant
A fight at the Temple of the Black Cloud
How a robotka was left behind on a primitive planet
Kindness, Choice and Psychopaths
One Walked To War
Several Stars Away From Home
Sociopaths and Osteopaths
The Ashes Of My Brief Existence
The Seven Months War of 1914: 1)
The Seven Months War of 1914: 2) The Marne and Tannenberg
The Seven Months War of 1914: 3) The Christmas Truce and the Bryan Plan
The Seven Months War of 1914: 4) Peace Plans and the Problem of Bosnia
The Seven Months War of 1914: 5) The Consequences of the 1915 Peace
Troy Before Homer
Power and Politics in Tolkien’s Work
The Harry Potter Books (in 2000)
The Moral Void in Star Wars
Tolkien and British History
Tolkien as understood by Peter Jackson, Brian Sibley and Ralph Bakshi
Tolkien in the language of film
90) Who Am I?
90.1) My artwork
95) T-shirt Design
My t-shirt design
90.2) My Holiday Photos
90.3) My Humour
A Multiverse Excursion
Black Hawk Down Snow Dogs
Coral alarm dwarfs pact to cut gases
What to do with non-BBC Accents
998) From Labour Affairs
2000 to 2009 – Magazine
Anti-Capitalist, For What?
Bulstrode: the Complexities of English Hypocrisy
Does the ‘Right Stuff’ exist?
Edmund Burke’s Beliefs
Fukuyama on History after the Gulf War
Genius and other mental abnormalities
How the British Empire Blighted Britain
How Tibet Emerged Within the Wider Chinese Power-Political Zone.
Is Giftedness Tied to Cultural Values?
Money and Gun-Power – Globalisation as it is
Needless Suffering in the 1840s Irish Potato Famine
Pascal, the Jesuits and Plato
Raymond Williams in World War Two
Reflections on the Start of the Iraq War
Slavery in the British Empire
Sociocide – Liberalism’s True History
The Anglosphere in 2004 (Anticipating Brexit)
The Enlightenment’s Limited Light
The many versions of democracy
The original guerillas of Spain
The Trotskyist Origins of US Neo-Cons
The World View behind the 2003 Gulf War
Why ‘The Individual’ is a muddled idea
Why the Left lost the Spanish Civil War
2019 05 – Magazine
2019 05 – News From France
2019 05 – Newsnotes
2019 05 – Parliamentary Notes
2019 06 – Magazine
2019 06 – News From France
2019 06 – Newsnotes
2019 06 – Parliamentary Notes
2019 07 – Magazine
2019 07 – News From France
2019 07 – Newsnotes
2019 07 – Parliamentary Notes
Balfour on Cobden and Progress
Balfour Against Free Trade
Balfour Against Progress?
Balfour on Cobden
Balfour on Progress
Cobden, Corn Laws and World War One
Why does Balfour Still Matter?
K) Labour Never Anti-Semitic
M) Articles By Topic
P) 1987 to 1993
1994 to 1999 – Magazine
Celtic, Germanic, Multicultural
How to prevent school massacres
My Father Raymond Williams
Rival British Christianities of the 17th Century
Thatcher struck at the roots of Britishness
Thatcherite Concepts of Classlessness
The World as a Global Night-Club
Why I Call It a Global Night-Club
Articles By Topic from 1987
Magazines 001 to 012
Magazine 001 January 1987
Life of Anthony Crosland
Newsnotes 001
Racism as Anti-Racism
Reagan’s Star Wars
Magazine 002 – April 1987
Chinese Anti-Party Protests of 1987
Life of R. H. Tawney
Newsnotes 002 – April 1987
Magazine 003 – July 1987
Growing Inequality (noted in mid-1987)
Legalising Prostitution
Life of Clement Attlee
Life of Hugh Dalton
Newsnotes 003 – July 1987
Magazine 004 – October 1987
Newsnotes 004 – October 1987
Why Harold Wilson’s Government Achieved Little
Why Pornography Does Not Cause Rape
Why Socialists Should Accept the British Monarchy
Why the West Saved Saddam Hussein in 1987
Magazine 005 – January 1988
Disbelieving Gorbachev’s Reforms (Jan. 1989)
French Peasants in the 1920s (in film)
From Stalin Down To Gorbachev
Newsnotes 005 – January 1988
Socialism and Child Benefit (in 1988)
Spycatcher: Fact or Fantasy
Magazine 006 – April 1988
Left-wing Fear of Corporatism (in 1988)
May 1968 in France
Newsnotes 006 – April 1988
Magazine 007 – July 1988
Afghanistan Neglected in 1988
Conflicts Between Rival Nationalisms in 1988
Newsnotes 007 – July 1988.
The 1968 Invasion of Czechoslovakia Doomed the Soviet Union
The Effects of Pornography (in 1988)
Magazine 008 – October 1988
How Thatcher Encouraged Selfishness
How Vietnam Won the War But Lost the Peace
Newsnotes 008 – October 1988
Socialism and the 1688 British Revolution
The Bevin Society: Aims and Purposes
Magazine 009 – January 1989
Demanding a Written British Constitution
Newsnotes 009 – January 1989
Magazine 010 – March 1989
Housing in Britain (in 1989)
Newsnotes 010 – March 1989
Should the Labour Party Accept Nuclear Weapons?
Thatcherism Failing (written March 1989)
The British Left Made Thatcher Possible
Magazine 011 – May 1989
Belfast in the French Revolution (Book Review)
Protecting Islam Within Britain (History )
Protecting Islamic Faith in Britain
The Social Origins of Islam
Magazine 012 – July 1989
Newsnotes 012 – July 1989
Thatcher’s Rise to Power
The French Revolution and Its Unstable Politics
What Tiananmen 1989 Was Really About
When Kinnock Abandoned Unilateralism
Magazines 013 to 024
Magazine 013 – September 1989
Against the ‘Deep Greens’
Educational Reform (in 1989)
Newsnotes 013 – September 1989
The Building Industry (in 1989)
Magazine 014 – November 1989.
Ancient Welsh Lives of Ordinary People
How Pagans Celebrate Christmas
Labour 1945 – a success?
Looking Back at the Europe Stalin Made
Newsnotes 014 – November 1989.
Thatcher and Gorbachev as Soulmates
Magazine 015 – January 1990
Green and Socialist Fit Naturally
Jesus of Montreal (film review)
Lessons from the 19th century German Customs Union
Newsnotes 015 – January 1990
Socialism and Vegetarianism
Magazine 016 – March 1990
British Literati and the Satanic Verses (in 1989)
British socialist should see the monarchy as useful
Ceausescu’s Fall (as seen in March 1990)
Climate Change (a warning from 1990)
East Europe in March 1990
Gender and Words
Mandela in March 1990
Newsnotes 016 – March 1990
Rail Privatisation Errors Foreseen in 1990
Thatcher Not Good for British Capialism
Turks and Others (as seen in March 1990)
Magazine 017 – May 1990
Against Modernist Architecture (in 1990)
Americanizing the Labour Party (in 1990)
Does Pornography Cause Violence?
Letter on the Electricians Union in the 1950s
Misunderstanding Stalin
Newsnotes 017 – May 1990
Thatcher and the Poll Tax Riots
The Poll Tax Riots of 1990
Magazine 018 – July 1990
Democracy and the Communist Manifesto
Iraq – a Crisis Before the Kuwait Invasion
Morality and Modern Christian Failure
Newsnotes 018 – July 1990
Racism in London (in 1990)
Review of a Biography of Bertrand Russell
War Crimes Trials – Only for the Defeated
Why US Electronics Succeeded
Magazine 019 – September 1990
H. G. Wells Vision of Benevolent Dictatorship
Interview with Barbara Castle
Iraq in 1990 – No Better Alternative Existed
Newsnotes 019 – September 1990.
Warning Against a Gulf War (in late 1990)
Magazine 020 – November 1990
Iraq and International Law (late 1990)
Labour Must Uphold Full Employment
Marx and Engels excluded Parliamentary Democracy from the Communist Manifesto
Newsnotes 020 – November 1990
Poverty and the Planet
Shrewd Remarks by Churchill
Star Trek – Rebooted for the 1990s
The IRA as criminals or warriors?
The Morality of a Gulf War (Nov. 1990)
The Moscow Trials of the 1930s
The Politics of Bonfire Night
The US Teamsters Union
Magazine 021 – January 1991
Adam Smith Had Alien Social Values
Blasphemy for Atheists? Why Bother?
Force-Labour Camps in 1930s Britain.
How Thatcher Encouraged Welfare Dependency
How Thatcher Repeatedly Rewarded IRA Violence
Newsnotes 021 – January 1991
Poland in 1991
Sovereignty and a Single European Currency (in 1991)
Tories Claim a Classless Society
Warning Against a Gulf War (Jan. 1991)
When John Major Succeeded Thatcher
Magazine 022 – March 1991
Hunter-Gatherers in a World of Machines
Iraq Tricked Into Invading Kuwait?
Jack Jones, 1970s Trade Union Leader
Newsnotes 022 – March 1991
Saudi Arabia Encouraged the 1991 Gulf War
The First Bad Gulf War (1991)
The USA Forced a War Over Kuwait
War Without Law (History)
Magazine 023 – May 1991
Gulf War Lies & Callousness to Arabs
Interview with Eric Heffer
Newsnotes 023 – May 1991
Sicilian Godfathers in Fact and Film
The Post-1956 Failure of Pro–Moscow Communism
The United Nations and the 1991 Gulf War
Magazine 024 – July 1991
Against Bush’s New World Order
False History for Ireland
Mao’s Achievements (as seen in 1991)
Newsnotes 024 – July 1991
Tribute to Eric Heffer
Magazines 025 to 036
Magazine 025 – September 1991
1991 Interview with Bill Morris
Green Issues and the Labour Party (in 1991)
Industrial Democracy – the Lost Chance
Labour in the Irish Republic (in 1991)
Making peace in South Africa in 1991
Neglect of the Mentally Ill (in 1991)
Newsnotes 025 – September 1991
Serbs and Croats – who was Anti-Nazi?
Student Politics Remade the Left (1 of 3)
The 1991 Soviet Coup – viewed just afterwards
Magazine 026 – November 1991
Newsnotes 026 – November 1991
Black Sections in the Labour Party (in 1991)
Eric Heffer
Labour and Student Politics, 2 of 3
Serbs in 1991 Allowed to Crush Albanian Kosovo
The USA’s New World Order (in 1991)
What Ernest Bevin did for Trade Unionism
Magazine 027 – January 1992
British Government Disrupts the European Union (in 1991)
Newsnotes 027 – January 1992
The novel ‘How Green Was My Valley’
‘Marxism Today’ smugly winds itself up amidst the ruins of left-wing politics
Magazine 028 – March 1992
How Charles Haughey Transformed Ireland
Newsnotes 028 – March 1992
Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy.
Magazine 029 – May 1992
Labour Needs a Working Class Section
Newsnotes 029 – May 1992
Student Politics Remade the British Left (3)
The Labour Party and Trade Unions
Was Modern Industry a Mistake?
Magazine 030 – July 1992
‘Bomber’ Harris in 1920s Iraq
Darwinism – a Creed Needing Correction
Football as Culture (in 1992)
Kier Hardie – Labour’s First MP
Kleptocracy in Yeltsin’s Russia
Newsnotes 030 – July 1992
Russia past and present (in 1992)
When Marxism Was Made Fashionable (in 1992)
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Magazines 037 to 048 – Nothing Yet
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Labour’s Original Clause 4 (Public Ownership)
Newsnotes From 1987
Policy Statement (from the 1980s)
What Is Placed, and Why
Post-Liberalism
Being An Aboriginal European
Chinese Politics Working Well
Israel as a Western Colony
Why All Freedom Includes Limits
Why Liberal Solutions Are Failing
Problems Magazine – Older Issues
A 1988 view seeing Gorbachev’s economic reforms as failing
A 1988 view seeing Islam as a new Ideology Of Progres
British Distortions of German Motives in World War One
Encouraging Iraqi Rebels in April 1991
Gorbachev ‘s Failure, Foreseen in 1990
Gorbachev and Islam, reconsidered in 2010
How the British Establishment Planned World War One
How the Vietnam War extended freedom in the West
Looking Back in 1991 at East Germany’s collapse
Many Versions of Democracy
P1 – 59 – Mary Shelley’s misinterpreted Frankenstein
P1 – 60 – The religious roots of Britain’s Industrial Revolution
P1 – 62 – Civilisation Alley: A Band of Pre-Industrial Empires from Britain to Sri Lanka
P1 – 63 – Why The Ming Sea Voyages Led To Nothing
P1 – 65 – Crusaders, Nomads and Conquistadors
P1 – 76 – Nation States existed long before the Peace of Westphalia
The 1991 Invasion of Iraq – not International Law
The Failed Russian Coup of 1991
The Irish State in 1990
The Soviet Collapse and the Putin Recovery
The United Nations as a 20th Century Myth
The United Nations War on Iraq in 1991
The Vanishing of Leninist Eastern Europe (viewed from 1990)
Thoughts on Socialism And Private Property
Warning in 1991 Against a War Against Serbia
William Cobbett and England’s 1830 ‘Captain Swing’ Rural Riots
William Cobbett’s 1831 Trial for Free Speech
999) Backup for Gwydion
00) Main Menu
10) Human Biological History
And So Say All of Me
Blond Hair Occurred at least Twice
Chimp DNA Changed More Than Ours
Chimps Are Never Tame
Cooking Made Us Human
Dark Skin, Blue Eyes – the Original Europeans
Gifts Close to Madness?
Human Altruism and Psycopathy
Letter About Memes
Mice more evolved than humans
Natural Selection as ‘Survival of the Grandkids’
Rational Chimps, Hobbits and Starch-Eating Humans
Superorganisms – Ant Nests and Human Religions
The ‘White Race’ does not exist
The Usefulness of Group Thinking
Why Motherhood was Created by Natural Selection
Why Only Some Children Bounce Back From Bad Childhoods
15) Other Science
Big fierce animals are losers
Constellations – a Human Invention
Does Physics Find Only Holes Within Holes?
Evolution Prevented By Competition
Fearsome dinosaur-eating mammals (deceased)
Humans On A Cosmic Scale
Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis as Rehashed Religion
Physics and the Nature of Reality
Schrodinger and Cheshire Cats
Should We Fear Alien Civilisations?
The Decline of US Science
The Large Hadron Collider in 2008
The Unexpected Muon
20) British History
Arkwright and the rise of the factory system
Being An Aboriginal European
Britain’s Mixed Feelings About Hitler in the 1930s
British Democracy Began in 1884
Coleridge’s Alternative for British Capitalism
Edmund Burke’s Beliefs
Mary Tudor and Elizabeth – almost a beautiful story
Petty Describing Real Capitalism
Race & Reformist Rioting – Brixton 1987
Rival British Christianities of the 17th Century
25) World History
Agnes Smedley and China’s 1930s Red Army
Agnes Smedley in the Sino-Japanese War
Celtic, Germanic, Multicultural
Civilisation Alley
Crusaders, Nomads and Conquistadors
Deaths Caused by Hitler
Hitler – the 13th Chancellor
Israel Taking Too Much
Nation States existed long before the Peace of Westphalia
The invention of agriculture and cities
The original guerillas of Spain
Traditional China Resisted Modernisation.
What If the Russian Revolution Hadn’t Happened?
Why The Ming Sea Voyages Led To Nothing
30) Human Dynamics
‘Everyone’ and ‘Anyone’ are Rival Simplifications of Human Nature
ASCII – an Unhappy Legacy for Computers
Baby Boomers to Blame?
Behind every Great Man there’s a Great Ape
Business Success a Mix of Skill and Luck
Don’t Confuse Mao with Mao
Don’t Speak of Cold Misty Mountains
Is Giftedness Tied to Cultural Values?
Market Minorities Across the World
Months in English – an Odd History
Must We Have the Profit Motive?
Why ‘The Individual’ is a muddled idea
35) Politics
Anti-Capitalist, For What?
Awed by the Amazing Twentieth?
Democracy and one-party states
Fear of Socialism by the Labour Defectors
How John Stewart Mill twisted the idea of liberty
How National Economies Really Grow
Thatcher struck at the roots of Britishness
The Original Conspiracy Theory
What Was The Minimum for Sovereign States?
Why Profit Needn’t Mean Wealth Creation
40) Against globalisation
Anti-Globalisation in 2001
Business Success a Mix of Skill and Luck
Chinese Politics Working Well
Degraded Globalisation
Ha-Joon Chang’s “23 Things They Don’t Tell You about Capitalism”
How Everything Changed in 1979
How Roosevelt’s New Deal Saved the West
How the British Empire Blighted Britain
Market Minorities Across the World
Money and Gun-Power – Globalisation as it is
Thatcher struck at the roots of Britishness
The Anglosphere in 2004
The Internet as Secret Policeman’s Friend
The Left Redefined ‘The Normal’
The Unnatural Nature of Commerce
The Web Is Always Insecure
The World After 9/11
The World as a Global Night-Club
Why ‘The Individual’ is a muddled idea
Why All Freedom Includes Limits
Yeltsin’s Final Election and the Near-Return of the Russian Communists
403 – The Black Gate is Closed
404 – Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit
405 – The Window on the West
406 – The Forbidden Pool
45) Why Humans Make Religion
Religions as Imperfect Human Understanding
60) About Science Fiction & Fantasy
A look at Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Game of Thrones and Other Filmable Fantasy
Home Movies of the Soul
Priam’s Tragedy and the Wrath of Achilles
The Harry Potter Books (in 2000)
The Moral Void in Star Wars
80) Holiday Photos
About Me
Blog on Science
Blog on Science Fiction & Fantasy
Steven Pinker Misunderstands the Enlightenment
Woodrow Wilson’s Deceptive ’14 Points’
My DNA results
My Father Raymond Williams
95) My Blogs
Marxism and the Wrong Turning of 1987 to 1995
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