William Bowles – Essays
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MINDSPACE – Influencing behaviour through public policy
A must read (and frightening) document that details the UK government’s programme to control our thoughts and opinions. Continue reading
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Saying of the year
China’s “cruel communist dictatorship” sacrifices its economy to save the population. The “cool British democracy” sacrifices its population to save its economy. – Anon Continue reading
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Is Corbyn a socialist and does it (no longer) matter if he isn’t?
Is this election different? Can we expect a Corbyn-led government to turn back the tide? Can we even expect an attempt at turning back the tide? Frankly, I don’t think we have much choice, after all, what else is there? The left, such as it is, is bankrupt and devoid of revolutionary ideas so the… Continue reading
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I’m taking the day off
23 July 2019 A short note. I’m taking the day off today as I’m a birthday boy (74) and off to hang out by the seaside for the day with an old friend, so no updates. Plus it’s HOT out there and London is not the place to be when in it’s in the 30s, Continue reading
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Two-faced Tom Watson
Isn’t it time to protect Labour members from the stench of Tom Watson hypocrisy Continue reading
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Some like it hot by William Bowles
18 July 2019 — Investigating Imperialism I am nothing if not an optimist, a trait that most on the Left seem to share. A belief in the future, that there is one that includes us. That things, eventually, get better, if we fight for it. ‘Unrealistic’, I hear you say, what is there to be Continue reading
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The $5,000,000,000,000,000 Question? By William Bowles
Apparently, if we add up all the ‘values’ that make up Planet Earth, we arrive at the figure of $5 quadrillion [1]! We’ve reduced the irreducible to the level of an accountant’s spreadsheet. Yet, it’s exactly this kind of thinking that’s created the disaster that, forget 10 years, it’s already with us and it’s been… Continue reading
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Back in town
24 June 2019 How could I keep away? Let me catch up with things here, mail to read, articles to source and as I’ve been writing once more as things here in this messed up world seem to be reaching some kind of terminal watershed, I think it’s time to start putting out some ideas Continue reading
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An update
18 June 2019 — The New Dark Age I won’t be updating the site between the 20th and the 24th June as I will be out of town. As a point of interest, the site now has 20,770 stories posted since 2010 when I moved over to WordPress. The work posted between 2003, when it Continue reading
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‘K’ Metamorphoses into ‘G’ By William Bowles
19 February 2019 — Investigating Imperialism [I think it’s time to republish a piece I wrote 15 years ago, in 2004, though clearly very few took notice of it then, will it be any different this time? I doubt it, it’s probably already too late to do anything about it. What the Labour government initiated Continue reading
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The ‘lost’ Archives
17 February 2019 — The New Dark Age This version of my online life kicked off in March 2003, coincident with the invasion of Iraq by the barbarians. WordPress didn’t exist then, most ‘blogs’ were handcrafted as was mine. I wrote every page in HTML using a piece of software called Cyber Studio, every page Continue reading
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Why I defend Jeremy Corbyn but don’t support him By William Bowles
The despicable hatred shown by the state/corporate media toward Corbyn has nothing to do with the man but with the state’s abject fear of Corbyn’s (remote) connection to socialism, made all the worse by airbrushing him out of what passes for a public debate on Corbyn’s politics. What are they afraid of? Clearly not Corbyn’s… Continue reading
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The Institute for Statecraft Exposed
There are now a number of articles on the Institute for Statecraft and its propaganda machine, ‘Integrity Initiative’ [sic]. Here are the pertinent documents exposed by ‘Anonymous’ (whoever they are) that reveal the objectives and the scale of this sophisticated enterprise. But already I read that some individuals are questioning the validity of these documents,… Continue reading
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William Blum Needs Your Help!
26 October 2018 — Anti-Empire Report I just got a very distressing email from Bill Blum’s former wife detailing an awful fall he sustained at home that left him immobolised for perhaps 2 days before being discovered by a friend! I wish him a speedy recovery but he needs your help with his medical expenses! Continue reading
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Crap’s Last Crap or How we Crapped Out By William Bowles
21 October 2018 — Investigating Imperialism With crappy apologies to Samuel Beckett It was just a question of time before the crap spilled over the edge of the bowl. The basement was the first to fill up of course but who looks in the basement; out-of-sight, out-of-mind. Continue reading
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Welcome to the new home of the old InI
7 September 2018 — William Bowles I suppose I should have had an official announcement about the move — from the hosting company I’ve been using since 2003 — and the move to this WordPress-hosted site, so this will have to be it. But the site went ‘live’ today with the rerouting of the domain, Continue reading
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Fried fish, collard greens and brown rice with lots of black pepper By William Bowles
26 July 2018 I ‘lost’ this essay, that is to say, it vanished into the morass of my hard disk until, quite by chance, I ‘rediscovered’ it. Written for Carol’s funeral celebration by her friends in NYC, it needs no further explanation. WB A memory of Carol By William Bowles 20 October 2013 It’s a Continue reading
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Corbyn or Bust? By William Bowles
24 May 2018 — Investigatingimperialism I need to continue my previous essay, it remains woefully incomplete. I kinda hinted at it in the last para but never completed the thought. Then I got an email from a comrade and friend in NYC after I’d published it: Thanks, but the question left unanswered is: does the Continue reading
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The Corbyn Effect By William Bowles
Why should it be that in a climate that’s shifted so far to the right, that out of the morass that is contemporary Britain, there should emerge a politician who was shaped by and effectively still lives, in a world that no longer exists? It’s bizarre to say the least but how to explain it? Continue reading
The New Dark Age 