“All you need is love”, sang the Beatles, in their classic “Yellow submarine”. But what is love? Is it the same as ‘sex’, or is sex an expression of love, its servant? Nigel Pocock What did the great prophet of 2000 years ago mean, when he said that […]
Needle’s Eye
A party leader and the politics of truth
In her red dress, tight-lipped and gimlet-eyed, the speaker looked up from her notes, and declared that if you believed you were elephant, that was true. Nigel Pocock Well—not quite. If you believed, and self-defined, as whatever gender or non-gender you were, that was true for you. And […]
African-Caribbean slavery and modern trafficking
One of the greatest myths is that modern trafficking can be directly compared with African-Caribbean chattel slavery. There are a number of fallacies in this argument. The Prisma’ memoirs. Nigel Pocock Could it be, as is suggested by Professor Geoff Palmer, that local communities can talk about […]
The shrine of the Emperor
Hopefully noxii (doomed convicts, people noxious to society) are no longer being thrown to the lions as a means of both social control and entertainment. Nigel Pocock But, alas, both are still with us… The tabloids provide the entertainment, while the ideas with subtlety convey the Emperor’s ideals […]
We are condemned to be free
Bestiality, A word still not spoken, except in the shadows of the demi-monde! Barely known to most. Yet, forbidden, since the earliest times, as the Book of Leviticus (18.23, 20.15-16) makes clear. Sex with animals was therefore, widely known and practiced in the ancient world, or why have a law […]
















