Monthly Archives: December 2018

Minor Self Indulgence…

Posted on December 21, 2018 by bsixsmith

This is extremely, possibly excessively self-indulgent but I wanted to collect some of my favourite pieces from 2018. If one writes a lot one often forgets past articles and allows them to drift into the dark, unlovely wastelands of the … Continue reading →

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Reflections on Poland’s Independence Day March…

Posted on December 16, 2018 by bsixsmith

As we inched, with more than two hundred thousand Poles, from Rondo Dmowskiego to the national stadium, my companions checked their phones to see what lies the Western media were telling. “Two hundred thousand Nazis,” one of them chuckled, “That … Continue reading →

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The Architecture of Annihilation…

Posted on December 16, 2018 by bsixsmith

A cathedral is a tribute to God. A skyscraper is a tribute to capital. Cathedrals reflect the glorious narratives of faith. Skyscrapers reflect the profits of capital. This could be an impotent anti-materialist moan. What interests me, though, is something … Continue reading →

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Rubin, Boot, Koestler and Convert’s Syndrome…

Posted on December 14, 2018 by bsixsmith

Somewhere between adolescence and adulthood, or at least their formal boundaries, I became something of a proto-SJW, railing against sexism, racism, homophobia, Islamophobia and various other things that bore the suffixes “ism” and “obia”. (Not transphobia, as I recall. That … Continue reading →

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