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Sex Pistols Photo by Richard Young (1976)   "We have passed beyond the absurd: our position is absolutely ridiculous." [1]     I...

  First proposed by Delroy L. Paulhus and Kevin M. Williams in 2002, the dark triad is a psychological theory of personality that collates...

    I.    I don't know the origin of the zen fascist insistence on wishing everyone a happy new year, but I suspect it's rooted in ...

Artwork by Wesley Johnson   The hymen is neither consummation nor virginity, neither the veil nor unveiling,  neither the inside nor the out...

  In nil sapiendo vita iucundissima est     I.   As Jarvis Cocker correctly observed back in 1995: Everybody hates a tourist [a] .    Howev...

Detail from 'The Struggle' (1992)  Garry Shead: D. H. Lawrence Series etchinghouse.com.au   I.    In his Introduction to the Cambr...

I wish I was in the land of cotton, old times there are not forgotten Look away, look away, look away, Dixieland [1]     I.   I don't ...

Image (detail) from the front cover of   The Economist (Jan 24-30, 2015)   I.    If you were to ask me to name the thing that artists value...

My application for a job as an Assistant Editor  (Youth and Entertainments Features) at Channel 4     I.   My first dealings with Channel 4 ...

Aleister Crowley aka Frater Perdurabo  aka the Great Beast 666      The practice of adopting a magical name or motto by a newly initiated m...

    I.    The first time I remember hearing that the Greeks had a word for it was when listening to the 1981 single 'Chihuahua' by ...