What unites all fundamentalists is an over-riding commitment to a sacred text, through which all of truth must be interpreted. The sacred text cannot be questioned; only obeyed. Nigel Pocock In the past the word ‘fanatick’ (sic) meant an ‘enthusiast’ and it usually seems to have had an […]
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Denialism, a type of historical revisionism
Despite seeming unconceivable in the middle of the twentieth century, alongside attempts in Germany to erase any physical sign of this horrible crime grew a tendency to deny the holocaust and the pain suffered by millions of families. Glenda Arcia and Harold Neuber Those in favour of hiding […]
The journey to Cavafy
A victim of homophobia, warmongering and the cancer that pursued him until he succumbed, Constantine P. Cavafy (1863 – 1933) is a famed Greek-language poet whose work was barely read during his own lifetime. Despite which, his greatness would come to be widely recognised. Antonio Paneque Brizuela Ignored […]
Fear, grievance and hate: How a community became radicalised
Weymouth & Portland is a community with a proud armed forces tradition – not least in relation to our role in defeating the Nazis in WWII. So how is it that a section of our community has been radicalised into racism and hatred? How is it that so many people […]
Power is much more than the government
Libertarian feeling, the search for a harmonious relationship between spontaneity and organisation, the challenges to finding the right way to “expropriate the expropriators” without causing irreparable damage to the social fabric, finding a way to make social property a reality and emancipate human beings from exploitation by human beings, must […]
















