Category Archives: Politics

Rational Truancy: A Consumer Choice?

Posted on July 2, 2025 by odeboyz

Rational decision-making can be described as a process of selecting the best option or course of action based on a careful and logical evaluation of the costs, benefits, and risks associated with each potential choice.1 Rational truants don’t break the law … Continue reading →

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Book Review: James Ellroy ~ The Big Nowhere (1988)

Posted on June 25, 2025 by odeboyz

The USA has a menacing culture, which embraces extreme violence and corruption. The January 6th 2020 Insurrection led to multiple deaths and systematic vandalism. It was celebrated by President Trump as an act of ‘patriotism’. His first act, as president, … Continue reading →

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Dick Gregory deals with a racist audience

Posted on June 7, 2025 by odeboyz

He was accidently booked by the Playboy Club, Chicago to play a convention of white businessmen…..It was a matter of moments before a refrigerator salesman had stood up and called him the N… word. The comedian responded by saying that … Continue reading →

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War Studies: Falklands War, 1982 ~ The price of pride

Posted on June 4, 2025 by odeboyz

The Falkland Islands in 1982 had a dwindling, ageing population.1 Worse: they were of no economic or strategic importance for the UK. Falklanders were excluded from British citizenship in 1981 by Margaret Thatcher. She wanted to off-load them. Thatcher’s solution … Continue reading →

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The Optics of Power

Posted on May 21, 2025 by odeboyz

Trump’s Oval Office Putin’s Kremlin Office

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Does Trump have a point?

Posted on May 10, 2025 by odeboyz

. “I used to invigilate exams at a well-known university and recall my strangest session: invigilating a student who required two extra desks to accommodate the 33 soft toys needed to ensure ‘emotional security in a stressful environment’. I still … Continue reading →

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Film Review: The Accountant: 2 (2025) (Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal)

Posted on May 10, 2025 by odeboyz

This film is a Trumpian MAGA homage. There’s an audience for this but not me. It’s so bad it will be immortal. It’s a paradigm of ‘How not to make an intelligent film’. Hollywood have their MAGA film but is … Continue reading →

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Book Review: James O’Brien ~ How they broke Britain (2024)

Posted on April 30, 2025 by odeboyz

James is a superb radio talk show host on LBC. He’s perceptive and insightful and listens to people who are uninformed in comparison to him. Although he’s combative he is prepared to discuss issues. A star no less. His book … Continue reading →

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War Studies: British naval supremacy ended on the 10th December 1941

Posted on April 23, 2025 by odeboyz

A 136 years of the Royal Navy’s global supremacy ended with the sinking of the battleship, Prince of Wales and battle cruiser, Repulse by the Japanese. Neither the Admiralty, or politicians, understood that British naval domination was shaky beforethis débâcle. … Continue reading →

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John Sinclair on American Socialism

Posted on April 16, 2025 by odeboyz

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. Quoted in James O’Brien How they broke Britain p221

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