The Post-Partisan Emporium

  From Bestiality to Beatification: How Depravity Is Sanitised Virtue-Signalling the Vile Thoughts from the Shire One of my first ever Substack articles was titled  Kink covereth a multitude of sin,  it was three years ago, and had four recipients. It was written in response to a moment of televised absurdity, when a man stripped naked on prime-time television and played the piano with his genitals, only to be lauded as “stunning and brave” rather than treated as any other man exposing himself in public would be. Kink Covereth a multitude of sins Thoughts from the Shire · December 1, 2022 Read full story The point then was simple: what would be unacceptable, indecent, and arrestable for an ordinary (non queer/kink) bloke suddenly became art, once it was wrapped in the language of kink and transsexual identity. That was 3 years ago, however this week I saw another story, even more depraved and disturbing. In January 2023, a well-known drag queen in Cardiff was found dead i...

  The Sweden Syndrome A case study in euphoric national suicide John Carter In 2008,  Sweden castrated the heraldic lion of its Nordic Battle Group . While riding a municipal bus in Uppsala, I had the opportunity to observe a group of high school students. In one seat were a few Swedish boys, of the bespectacled, well-behaved, and soft-spoken variety typical of Sweden’s intermediate professional classes. In the seat next to them was a small group of Swedish girls. Behind the girls were some Arab boys, who were engaged in pulling the girls’ hair and otherwise tormenting and teasing them, much to the girls’ displeasure. In other circumstances this might have been an innocent, even light-hearted scene, and there was a part of me that was amused by the Arab boys’ antics and the girls’ protests, but the rigid posture of the Swedish lads, the way they carefully looked anywhere but at the Arab boys, gave the scene a tense, dark aura. Here in microcosm was a holographic fragment of Sw...