New Substack essay - the first of a paywalled two-parter about me and gallstones. This is a story that began in 2013, stopped in 2020, but recently resumed.

https://www.woes.blog/p/biliary-billiards-1

Rushdie’s smugness wouldn’t last long. Eight days later, his life changed forever when Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa for his death. Rushdie would spend the next decade in hiding and the rest of his life venturing out in public only with bodyguards. By 2022 he had relaxed a little too much and was maimed.

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If democracy actually worked as it is supposed to, then the Muslims who were in Britain to threaten Salman Rushdie, trouble Tony Harrison and endanger the public peace, would have been deported (or would never have arrived in the first place) and would therefore be unable to do any of those things.

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Trevor Lynch reviews Michael Mann's 1995 crime classic Heat:

"Heat offers a great example of a “tragic anti-hero,” a man of genuine greatness (if not goodness) undone not by a tragic flaw but instead by a tragic virtue, specifically two virtues: love and justice."

https://counter-currents.com/2026/09/heat/

It is necessary to watch The End, the very episode, so as to understand the premise of the show. It’s also quite a thrilling novelty to see the ship pre-accident with all of its usual crew going about their humdrum work. You see how life aboard the ship was, when things were “normal”, and it is completely different from what how it will be hereafter.

TV Guide: Red Dwarf (1988-)

The scenario of actual, consequential diversity is apparently inconceivable for progressive writers. For them, diversity is only ever trivial, something that brings harmless and fascinating delights, but never actually matters.

Progressivism in Early 1970s Doctor Who

Knowing people is knowing that love is always a revolution, as is art. Nothing is birthed in a polite way. Nothing new can be created predictably. When you say, “I want to make something new” — a new private world with somebody, a new piece of art, a new social entity — you unleash a chaos you know you won't be able to fully control. (Our contracts, norms, weddings are but ways to mitigate the thus unleashed human tsunamis.)

Men and women come from two different systems, and our encounters, be they personal, intellectual, or professional, always necessarily break rank. We rebel for each other, and break things. That is the whole point: to break the stasis, the sterility!

https://american-innocence.com/p/re-watching-the-phantom-thread

A story should make some attempt at even-handedness, especially when it is for the general public and even more so when large numbers of children will be watching. The Curse of Peladon is certainly not even-handed. While purportedly a meditation on cooperation and federation, it ends up being a full-throated defence.

1970s Doctor Who and the European Union

Jonathan Bowden's Clear Them Out! is a collection of his best political "stump speeches" for the British National Party.

It is now in print in hardcover, paperback, and ebook. An audio book is coming soon. Now available from Counter-Currents as well as Amazon.com and other bookseller worldwide.

Praise for Clear Them Out!

“Jonathan Bowden’s speeches have become truly iconic within the dissident Right information ecosystem. Delivered in unfashionable pubs and halls under tobacco-stained wallpaper, Bowden’s soaring oratory both inspired and informed. This lovingly collected set of Bowden speeches allows us to hit the pause button and savor Bowden’s actual ideas in written form, which, somehow, retain their ability to move and inspire awe.”—Morgoth

https://counter-currents.com/2026/09/clear-them-out-now-in-print/

Hulke was a talented writer but also a member of the Communist Party until at least the early 1960s. He remained ardently left-wing and wove messages into his work. Writing to a friend, he mocked the conservative establishment for being so naive as to never notice what he was doing.

You would almost think the establishment wasn’t conservative at all. In fact, MI5 had a file on Hulke so must have “noticed” what he was doing, yet let him continue. Boasting of his “subversive” writing, Hulke was pushing at an open door but never realised. He was the naive one.

Progressivism in Early 1970s Doctor Who

OpenAI says a 10,000-agent AI swarm solved the Navier–Stokes problem in just 88 hours, a mathematical challenge that had gone unsolved for nearly 90 years.— Article

It's not the victory of the black female, it's the final victory of the bourgeoisie

Start writing with whichever point interests you most. Do this again and again, until the only points left to write are the boring ones. Then brace yourself one day and just bite the bullet.

How to Write an Essay

Knightsbridge (c. 1896)

I know exactly what I was doing 9/11/01

What I don't know with exactitude is when I recognized that 9/11 was done to us by our leaders and a global cabal of evil because of their greed for money and power. That recognition is when the world I was born into disappeared for me.

People like me sometimes struggle with what to do on 9/11.
I certainly am not going to some kind of ZOG war propaganda festivity masquerading as commemoration. But I will solemnly commemorate the day and all that means.

"Never Forget" that you live in a world run by Satanic people who have gladly murdered untold numbers of innocents just like you —and never entertain one thought of "loyalty" or "sacrifice" to their personal greed presented as a patriotism. Never Forget what was done to us and by whom. Never forget the thousands who were murdered that day and the thousands more who died later because of that day.

Tomorrow, I am going to a solemn commemoration. I hope you will, too.

May God bless us and give us justice.

Today marks the 25th anniversary of my awakening as a conspiracy realist. I came home from college early that day, turned on the TV, and watched the chaos unfold. I watched this female reporter declare, live on BBC news, that the WTC 7 building had collapsed whilst it still stood behind her.

But the biggest red flag for me on the day, when I really didn't yet know just how deceptive the MSM and western governments were, was seeing aerial footage of the Pentagon with claims that it had been hit by an aeroplane, yet (as I recall) there was no sign of even the remnants of a plane; just miscellaneous marks of a crash/explosion.

A few hours after the (false flag) attack, Benjamin Netanyahu was interviewed on TV and seemed to know all the motives and outcomes of this event. He declared that air travel would never be the same again, and it wasn't.

If we recognise that the masses are malleable, it would seem not only a moral duty but also a matter of self-preservation for us to mould them, not to leave their moulding to the winds of fate and whatever their undiscerning minds are drawn to.

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