Openly Indifferent
August 08, 2024
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Private PIE

Private Eye did a podcast on UK Establishment paedophilia back in March 2020. No mention of Kincora or Lord Mountbatten. They suggest that rumours about Leon Brittan were started by the Security Services. There was a time when Private Eye would expose UK establishment paedophilia – even while it was infiltrated by the very type […]

Openly Indifferent
May 26, 2024
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Curzon Vs Leahy

A Session Between Lord Curzon and Major Leahy Setting: A grand office in London during the 1920s. The room is filled with opulent furniture, shelves of medical books, and various pieces of art from India. Major Leahy, a jovial and robust man with a noticeable limp, sits behind his large wooden desk. Across from him […]

Call the Cops, Openly Indifferent
July 12, 2023
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the bigger picture

Cumulative Returns learning to sit on the sidelines, pay attention to what is going on around me, and say something that is both relevant and performs a relatively healing function has been my life’s greatest challenge small step for man it is too easy to seek attention when it isn’t coming, and take offence when […]

Openly Indifferent
June 11, 2023
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Ichimoku – the power and politics of a single glance

A friend told me about Ichimoku, a Japanese trading technique that says our first glance at a graph tells us how things really are. This reminds me of Gerd Gigerenzer’s work on how experts need very little time to get things right and being given too much time can lead to overthinking and failure. In […]

Was Pegasus software deployed to illegally hack & surveille a UK activist WhatsApp group?

Environmental campaigners appear to have been targeted by security companies linked to London Mayor Sadiq Khan. The protestors intended to unveil a banner about a planned road tunnel outside a Q & A attended by the Mayor at the O2 centre near Canary Wharf. They were identified, individually addressed by name and prevented from entering […]

Openly Indifferent
January 25, 2023
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Traumatised ex-cops and soldiers

Looks like austerity is a big factor when it comes to trauma in ex forces and emergency response communities. There is the trauma of the job itself and then there is the trauma of there not being enough money to pay to live. Of course this will lead to addictions in order to find ways […]

Openly Indifferent
January 20, 2023
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Phrasing & Cadence in Biggie’s Rhymes & everyday life

A language learner and musician recently alerted me to a clip about how Biggie’s rhymes woud mimic the drum solo of a particular jazz musician – I think it’s something we all instinctively know but never directly think about. The clip was easy to find and is as good as I’d hoped. 👇🏿 Having watched […]

Let’s say the UK Government were to suddenly collapse, who of us would even clock?

Amusing Ourselves to Death The thing about UK politics in the latter stages of 2022 is that hardly anyone pays it any mind. And why would they? There’s a World Cup on and only so much information the nation can imbibe. Were you to have been raised to believe in gravity, that the earth is […]