The New Leviathans by John Gray – the future is bleak
The New Leviathans by John Gray – the future is bleak. An obscure, random and dense examination of liberalism.
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On My Radar July 2023 – Extraction 2, LIFE, The Witches, ITV News, and Substack
Extraction 2 follows up on one of Netflix's recent hits, LIFE are added to my Spotify playlist. The biological vs gender debate, and Witches.
The New Puritans by Andrew Doyle
The essence of the book is to define how Critical Social Justice (applied post-modernism) operates as an ideology he calls the new puritans.
Kill All Normies by Angela Nagle
The subtitle to the book, Kill All Normies, By Angla Nagle, is “Online culture wars from 4Chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right.”
War on the West by Douglas Murray – on race and culture
Douglas Murray, in the War on the West – takes a broadside on anti-westerners using race and culture to undermine our system.
Boris Johnson – his own worst enemy
The downfall of Boris Johnson has been coming, with an unprecedented walkout from the paid staff. Boris's failings are aplenty - he is his own worst enemy.
Cancel culture – ostracism by another name
Noah Smith in his article It’s not Cancel Culture. Cancel culture is ostracism by another name, Technology is used to reinforce it.
Tracking the ideological shift in equality
This book is an analytical examination of the trans debate from acritical point of view. This is an intellectual anlaysis rather than a manifesto. As the subtitle alludes the book attempts to take the ideology of trans identity and apply it to what is happening in reality for people who change identity, children and puberty and the societal impact of men identifying as women i.e. sex and biology versus gender and identity.
What impact will the woke wave have in Britain?
Matthew Goodwin in Unherd (11/07/21) asks Can Britain Survive the Woke Wave?
Whatever happened to our pluralist, liberal society?
The woke have no vision of the future by John Gray on Unherd.com Whatever happened to our pluralist, liberal society that we are now in a model whereby the only outlet for mainstream voices is the election or referendum –…