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Issue 57 Fire

Ten Contemporary Self-Proclaimed Arsonists

Fire is simply a chemical reaction. It is difficult to speak of will or intention when considering fire as such. Many fires have started by all…
Issue 56 Journalism

A Dozen Media Outlets to Check Out (Daily)

Stuff the BBC. Forget Sky News, CNN, and the rest of the so-called legacy media. Quit Facebook, shun TikTok, and the rest of the pestiferous social…
Issue 55 Fascism

C Scott Jordan's Ten Farcical Fascists

Fascism has delivered some of the greatest evil humanity has ever had to experience and endure. The horror’s wrought are nigh incomprehensible. The…

C Scott Jordan
Issue 54 Liberalism

Ten Consequences of Liberalism

Even ideas with the purest of motivations will, inevitably, lead to a few unsavoury consequences. Liberalism is no exception. Given it has no single…
Issue 53 Water

A Most Refreshing Inventory

‘In days of old when Knights were bold’, says the much-loved limerick of schoolboys, and paper wasn’t invented they wiped their arse…
Issue 52 Genocide

Eight Peaceful Co-Existences

After even a minor study of genocide one could not be blamed for losing hope, even pondering if genocide is the ultimate fate of human societies…
Issue 51 Desire

Ten Undesirables

One of the greatest ironies that has come out of our contemporary existence is how we have managed to make an infinitely interconnected, globalised…
Issue 50 Halal

Ten Halal/Haram Discourses

Is this halal? Like an act of electromagnetism, Muslim dinners are drawn to this particular provocation. In our contemporary world, at times, the…
Issue 49 Scotland

Ten Scottish Things

What distinguishes Scotland from the rest of the world? If you were to ask people at random, a flurry of responses are likely to emerge. The Scottish…
Issue 48 Saliha

Scott Jordan’s Ten AI Generated Virtues

Heaven forbid, one day the phrase ‘ask ChatGPT’ could be as colloquial as ‘google it!’ Only time will tell. For now, AI remains an enigma. Certainly…

C Scott Jordan
Issue 47 Evil

Christopher Jones’s Ten Evils

Generally, evil is defined as the opposite of “good,” but the meaning of evil is different in different cultures, societies, and even between…
Issue 45 Transitions

Ten Shapeshifters

Transitions. The word conjures images of changes that are or are hoped to be smooth and orderly –childhood to maturity, day to night and night to…