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The business of Fascism and how the far-right are spending big bucks fighting the war on woke. fascism | politics | far-right | wokeness | human rights Photo Credit | Alex Dunn | justseeds.org According to recent data, the number of active armed conflicts around the world is worryingly high. At approximately 56, it can feel hard to keep up with them all without going insane. Russia-Ukraine,…
Quickly Rounding Up The Horrors Of February 2026 politics | opinion | US | Iran | Ukraine | environment Photo Credit | Nasa on Unsplash It's The Environment, Stupid In Germany, it was announced that billions of euros would be spent on developing a new hadron-collider-type device that will be able to produce unlimited energy for the country, possibly the continent. Kind of like the sun. Experts…
Capitalicide: Exploring the hidden death toll of neoliberalism capitalism | politics | democracy | inequality | poverty Photo Credit | Moises Gonzalez | Unsplash T he Latin word "cide" means "killer" or "act of killing". There are many words that end with the suffix -cide: Homicide - the killing of a person. Femicide - the killing of a woman or girl because of their gender. Genocide - the killing…
A recap of 2025: the planet dies, tyrants thrive and the rest of us scroll along politics | democracy | world | authoritarianism Photo Credit | Harry Shannon on Instagram @harryshannon Just when we thought things couldn't get any worse, 2025 arrived. And then left. Leaving nothing but hell and misery in its wake. As we enter 2026, shivering in the freezing temperatures and snow, the fourth…
In this brutally honest end-of-year recap, satire meets reality. The world burns while the patriarchy cheers. politics | america | elections | trump | women Photo by Timo Miroschnichenko on Pexels 2024 is rapidly packing up its bags, leaving us with the much-anticipated sequel: 2025 – What The Hell Will Happen Next? The world stage is set, and the future looks grimmer than the reaper himself. The…
Are we entering the twilight phase of humanity or can we pull ourselves together? environment | technology | society | future | opinion Photo by Matt Collamer on Unsplash As we're all aware, the decline of human civilisation began with the election and subsequent rise of Germany's First Fascist Superstar, Adolf Hitler, in 1933, when he was democratically elected by a broken and lost German…
A List Of My 10 Favourite Artists Of All Time! blog | top 10 list | artists Mark Rothko ... only in expressing basic human emotions—tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on. And the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions ... The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had…
A List Of The 10 Best Fiction Books Of All Time! Do you love fiction? See what my favourite books are! blog | top 10 list | books | fiction Here's a list of my 10 favourite fiction books. They're not in any particular order. Why are they my favourites? They're all books that have changed the way I look at the world and left me with a feeling I can't shake - which is the point of all good books!…
Will we ever have fun in the sun again, or will we just learn to live with the hellish heat? environment | politics | opinion | climate change Back in the olden days, summer used to be fun. Hanging out with your friends until late into the night because it was still light outside, eating at least three Mr Whippy ice-creams a day, watching your dad suddenly become the family chef because you had a…
Will Germany finally see some much-needed change with the newly elected coalition? politics | opinion | germany | media L-R | Volker Wissing (FDP) | Annalena Baerbock (Green) | Christian Lindner (FDP) | Robert Habeck (Green) Is Christian Lindner's influence in the upcoming discussions about who will form the new German government as overinflated as his ego, or does he really have all the power?…
Are YouTube's algorithmms helping to divide us? In this blog post I take a look at YouTube's new reputation as the number one tool for radicalisation. opinion | social media | data | politics As the world's richest men decide to use their increasing wealth to go off and colonize space, the rest of us mere mortals are left on Earth trying to get on with life as normal as the Coronavirus continues…
February 2021 Is Over. What's Coming Next, I Wonder? Are you feeling relieved to have survived another month? blog | opinion | politics | covid-19 February is the shortest month, so if you’re having a miserable month, try to schedule it for February | Lemony Snicket Photo Credit | Mia Page So, you survived February! Well done you! And what's that over there, sneaking its mischievous head around…
January 2021 Is Over. Have The January Blues Set In? blog | opinion | politics | january Lots of people go mad in January | Karen Joy Fowler Photo Credit | LookHUMAN As 2020 came to a close, a collective breath was held. We awaited the dawning of this new year with a minuscule glimmer of hope; but mostly trepidation. We peered around the corner, testing the water. Were the first days of 2021 going…
The American dream was shattered and replaced by a real American horror story when the Capitol Building was stormed. blog | politics | opinion | US On 6th January 2021, a mob consisting of mostly white men stormed the Capitol building in Washington DC. Although it wasn't necessarily a surprising turn of events given the outgoing President's tantrum-throwing, violence-inciting love of all things…
The grim milestone of 750,000 deaths has been passed this week. With infection rates going up all over the World, here in Germany, something strange seems to be happening to the Volk. Life during the Corona pandemic is affecting everybody differently. politics | opinion | covid-19 | germany | conspiracy theory | fake news The weekend of 1st August 2020 saw thousands of people taking to the streets…
The final part of this Blog Series looks at the rise of the far-right in Europe: Is inequality fuelling the rise of the racist right in Europe? blog | series | politics | conspiracy theory | fake news I've always been fascinated by and extremely afraid of the far-right. The ideas and opinions they espouse are so abhorrent to me, that I've spent some time trying to understand how people can fall…
Europe is witnessing a worrying rise in anti-Semitic attacks and hate-speech. What can we Europeans do to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past? politics | blog series | far-right | extremism Coined in 1879, the term antisemitism refers to hostility or discrimination against Jews as a religious or racial group. It has a long history, particularly in Europe, culminating in the Holocaust. It's on…
Femicide is the big issue that nobody seems to want to talk about. In this part of the blog series, I take a look at the increasing number of cases of violence against women and girls in Europe. politics | blog series | femicide | extremism | violence The hatred of the other is as old as humankind. It has been the basis of many wars and conflicts and has caused untold suffering to people on all…
