01 October 2025

The history of Islamic Slavery

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Racism and religious status assertion is worthy of investigation THE ULTIMATE in status differentiation is the slave relationship. The slave...

Refugees - who wants them and who doesn't - lessons from Europe in 1945 (after the war)

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Interesting book on he subject of how all the displaced people in Europe as the Second World War ended were disposed of, and migrant fever b...
16 July 2025

Who owns the land which colonialists take, both white and black?

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 This piece discusses the extent to which imperialists are justified in taking land from other countries - it focusses on a biography of Cec...
29 March 2025

China is coming after you

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  A new analysis of President Xi’s political approach ought to send serious alarm bells ringing all round the world. This book, by Australia...
22 January 2025

A quiet film about saweed - ideal for meditating

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A beautiful film about the fish and seaweed which live beneath the harbour in Campbeltown, on the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland. You can see thi...
17 January 2025

Alexander von Humboldt - man of the moment (or should be)

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 A new biography of one of the most interesting scientists of the late eighteenth-early nineteenth centuries – when we know so LITTLE about ...
03 January 2025

A poet in Paradise - soon to be destroyed by windfarms

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  An article about a very interesting man, the local historian of Campbeltown. He made one area of Scotland interesting for all by his descr...
13 December 2024

A lovely film about a dreamy place on the west coast of Scotland

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 A short film about a secret hideaway where magical things happen and fine malt whisky has been known to be consumed: https://www.youtube.co...
10 December 2024

Thhe climate warming scientist who once wrote about "a new ice age"

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  This article describes a revealing book by a famous climate crisis promoter, Stephen Schneider (joint part winner of 2007 Nobel Peace Priz...
15 November 2024

Who really is JD Vance, Donald Trump's Vice-President to be?

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 We know so little about this guy, yet he could well be President in four years' time. There are all sorts of conspiracy theories, but r...