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    Morrissey Central "THE LAST OF IRELAND" (MARCH 17, 2024)

    Let us hope, indeed, it is not the last of Ireland. In Michel Houellebecq's Submission, after the Islamist party takes power in France, the Jewish girlfriend of the main character, François, is, naturally, thinking of fleeing to Israel. François's response is, “There’s no Israel for me.” The...
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    Morrissey Central "ANOTHER WORLD." (March 5, 2024)

    "A History of a Dangerous Emotion." I'm not sure what sense 'dangerous' has here, whether there are invisible scare quotes around it or not, but it seems to me that if there's one thing that's dangerous it's medicalising emotions. (One suspects that there are political motivations when such...
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    Jesus of Nazareth, known as "J-dogg" by some

    Jesus Christ appears to combine two very oddly matched roles: healer and judge. Having said that, I am not sure what the West, formerly known as Christendom, is going to do without him. We have bombers on the right side, loonies on the left, and the rest of us are stuck in the middle...
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    Morrissey Central "There Is A Happy Land." (February 14, 2024)

    And there's also this novel by northern writer Keith Waterhouse, who also wrote Billy Liar (see also: 'William It Was Really Nothing'). The book (at the link) seems to have provided some inspiration for Bowie: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/3247379 "There is a Happy Land tells of the...
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    Brit Pop News: Maynard James Keenan of Tool describes Morrissey encounter in concert (December 17, 2023)

    Juvenile knuckle-dragging Americans. Morrissey certainly has his flaws, but there's nothing remotely impressive about this sort of locker-room tough-guy talk, which always has that philistine stink of Puritanism about it. I've never really got round to listening to Tool, but it looks like I can...
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    The Standard: Rick Astley on Morrissey, getting Rick-Rolled, and his biggest hit (November 2, 2023)

    “I read somewhere, and it’s an old phrase... separate the art from the artist. There’s a lot of painters that were complete arseholes, and horrifically horrible people, but they created beautiful works of art that are hanging in galleries all around the world, and people who are good...
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    Caleb Williams, USC Football Quarterback wears The Smiths

    Were his parents fans of William Godwin, I wonder?
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    PETA: "Morrissey Lands in Washington and Lands on Jeff Bezos Over Whole Foods’ Coconut Milk Sales" (October 16, 2023)

    Some Monkeys Have Fallen from Great Heights Here at the bottom of the tree, The primate death-rate is climbing alarmingly, And I've never seen so many prehensile tails Fail so sadly. Still the perfidious purveyors of coconut milk sleep soundly at night, While I, I howl from the treetops...
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    The Sunday Times: "Morrissey’s big mouth is a thorn in the side of his admirers" (July 16, 2023)

    Another thing that people say is, "Well, things change. It's inevitable." But what we're talking about is the possible death of a culture. Is it okay, for instance, that the Chinese have a policy of flooding Xinjiang with those who are ethnically Han Chinese in order to turn the native Uighur...
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    The Sunday Times: "Morrissey’s big mouth is a thorn in the side of his admirers" (July 16, 2023)

    As it's on topic for the song 'Notre Dame', a video that has just appeared online about attacks on churches in Britain and government payouts to protect mosques:
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    The Sunday Times: "Morrissey’s big mouth is a thorn in the side of his admirers" (July 16, 2023)

    Incidentally, whatever actually happened in the case of Notre Dame, arson in churches across Europe has become a big problem in recent years, though, of course, news sources like the Guardian and the BBC don't seem very interested in this. One has to look elsewhere...
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    The Sunday Times: "Morrissey’s big mouth is a thorn in the side of his admirers" (July 16, 2023)

    I'm not commenting on the content itself, but it's remarkable how standards of journalism have fallen in the last, say, fifteen years. What kind of qualifications and training does a person require to write this sort of drivel? I mean, this is The Sunday Times. If they can't write anything...
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    The Burkean: "Morrissey – The Original Volcel" (June 28, 2023)

    Well, Marx said a lot of things, including, "The bourgeoisie will remember my carbuncles until their dying day." Apparently his carbuncles were a great motivation to him. The German poet Heinrich Heine, third cousin to Marx, had some interesting things to say about the world his third cousin...
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    Morrissey Central "DAVID VANCE" (June 17, 2023)

    While I understand the concern about base emotions, is it a base emotion to want justice to be carried out effectively and for acts of terrorism to be prevented? I don't have a lot of time at the moment, but I think this is a parallel case. It's the report of the independent inquiry into child...
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    Morrissey Central "DAVID VANCE" (June 17, 2023)

    It seems like, with the issue of terrorism, there are some people who will talk about anything but the actual issue, and vilifying the people who talk about the issue is a diversionary tactic. I'm not sure that the recent Nottingham killings are of the same type as the Manchester Arena bombing...
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    Morrissey Central "A wall in Barcelona" (June 11, 2023)

    If the end game is to minimise suffering, then the consistent vegan would also be antinatalist. Some are, of course.
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