Continue? How Gaming Helped me Deal with Depression

Yes, I know; we killed the blog dead due to our fear of an impending oil crash. We said we’d never post anything again. We bought a farm in Maine and began stocking up on tinned food and ammunition.  Well, we lied. But it was only a little white lie. This article by Jordan Salari [...]

Review: Sliced Bread

* – A slight improvement on previous incarnations of bread, but nonetheless undeserving of the hyperbole it inspires amongst the masses. For some reason it is widely accepted in English-speaking cultures that sliced bread is the benchmark from which to compare all subsequent technological, social, economic, and baking developments. “I like your ‘small is beautiful‘ conception of the world Mr [...]

Review: ‘The Barbarians Move In’ by Duels

***** – Disturbing, claustrophobic, and utterly different to anything produced by their peers. The Barbarians Move In is the perfect antidote to Simon Cowell and bland indie. I have to admit that recently I have lapsed into a love of all things pop. I actually began – and continued – watching the X-Factor and I [...]

Review: Atlas Shrugged

“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves [...]

Book Review: Angus Calder ‘The Myth of the Blitz’

Apologies for the recent dearth of posts Since 1945 the contours of British memory have been shaped by a particular cultural-historical interpretation of the Second World War which gives prominence to the summer of 1940 as a transformative episode in British society[1]. According to this narrative, perhaps most succinctly elucidated by Richard Titmuss in his [...]

We Were Promised Robots and Flying Cars By Now

“Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.” – Benjamin Franklin So there ends another year. It was at once  terrifying, hopeful, reactionary and revolutionary. The Yin and Yang of 2010, 365 days of great upheaval, was perhaps more pronounced than in the years directly preceding it and will most [...]

Nuclear Futures

I’ve just got back from a lecture delivered by Ward Wilson, Senior Fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, entitled “Nuclear Weapons: Six Fundamental Challenges to the Current Consensus?”. It was certainly an enlightening lecture and a welcome inducement to some grey matter acrobatics on the part of the audience. I [...]

Deja-vu

Consistency is central to the formulation of an ‘objective’ and ‘scientific’ approach to political and economic matters. Peter Taaffe and the Socialist Party have demonstrated an unwavering dedication to this end. Allow IYTT to share a selection of conclusions that they have drawn, illuminating the internally consistent nature of Marxist-Trotskyite logic. On Paul Krugman and Keynesian [...]

Girls Kissing Girls

Huzzah! Time Magazine, the literary and news institution which brought you some of the most memorable covers and interviews of the 20th century, has finally tackled the pressing cultural phenomenon which has had us all worried/aroused/bemused (delete where applicable) for years – girls kissing other girls. Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure the title piece, which examines [...]

The Baader Meinhof Complex

Despite being made in 2008, I have only just got around to watching the Baader Meinhof Complex, a German film exploring the development of the Red Army Faction throughout the 1960′s and 70′s. The film, like the period itself, is very thought-provoking, and captures the major events that occured and shaped the outlook and actions [...]