scotsman.com
It may be a bit early in the morning to be quoting Nietzsche, I appreciate, but the news that 51 per cent of Scots now say they have no religion has brought to my mind his infamous – and much misinterpreted – quote beginning “God is dead and we have killed him…”. For clarity, Nietzsche was not referring to a literal murder of the creator he himself necessarily believed in, but rather a symbolic killing of the idea of God – in other words, society losing a cohesive morality and meaning, the logic…
7 months ago
scotsman.com
Bestselling author, journalist and gold-star provocateur Lionel Shriver has published a new novel this month. Entitled ‘Mania’, it is a savage dystopian satire about the ways society falls prey to ideological crazes. In the book, Shriver imagines a West in the grip of a social justice cause called the Mental Parity Movement, where the last great civil rights movement is defeating notions of intelligence. Calling someone “stupid” is an appalling slur and measuring cleverness in any way via grades…
7 months ago
scotsman.com
In a time of vast political division, the results of the England and Wales council elections, which show great gains for Labour and significant losses for the Conservative Party, demonstrate there is something on which the public are largely united – contempt for Rishi Sunak’s government. These results are likely an appetiser for the humiliation Conservatives are set to face in the impending general election. There had been speculation that Sunak would announce one on Monday last week – to be he…
8 months ago
scotsman.com
I heard it said by a high-profile British journalist who spends a great deal of time in America that US citizens no longer have different political opinions from each other, they have different facts. This vast polarisation is due to the legacy of Trumpism, and his classless, dangerous way of branding any media that draw attention to his lies as “corrupt” and insinuating any member of the public who opposes him is an enemy of the cause of Making America Great Again. Amidst the hysteria in light…
8 months ago
scotsman.com
There’s an old joke about an army of Englishmen approaching the Scottish border. From the misty distance a voice goads that it will “take only one Scotsman to defeat a thousand Englishmen”. The general proceeds to send that number of soldiers across the border. Only one returns alive, crawling across the ground in agony: “It’s a trap,” he wheezes, “there’s two of them.” The punchline, as well as ribbing the English, pokes fun at the mythologised idea of the Scotsman as more beast than man, an ap…
9 months ago
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