The trajectory of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, photo NASA/JPL-Caltech “Piensas mal y atinaras.”— Old Mexican proverb By Phil Hall While films like Don’t Look Up! highlighted the danger of accidental asteroid impacts, a more disturbing possibility exists: intentional planetary bombardment. An interstellar object traveling at 60 km/s, if artificially directed, could serve as the…
Month: July 2025
Algeria
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Let Gaza Live: The Arab World Must Open Its Borders Now
Arab League Summit 2025, photo Government of Yemen, public domain Tactical Withdrawals Can Become Strategic Victories by Phil Hall The world watches the mutilated bodies of Palestinian children on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok, weaponising their suffering for clicks and protests, yet none of these outraged demonstrators demand the one thing…
Cassiodorus
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Think Like a Venetian
Poseidon in the Lagoon, Phil Hall / Bing We need a Deliberate Act of Civilizational Triage by Phil Hall “We are glad to make special inquiry about you, whom the nature of your dwelling-place and the fertility of your soil commend. For you live like sea-birds, with your homes dispersed,…
BRICS
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BRICS: A New Planet Swims into View
Cyril Ramaphosa and BRICS representatives, Johannesburg, August 2023, photo, PM’s Office India Hope in Bleak Times: the Global Order is Changing for the Better by Phil Hall BRICS has declared sovereign equality a core principle. The bloc explicitly rejects the Western-dominated “rules-based order,” instead demanding urgent reforms to the United…
energy autonomy
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Will Europe Escape the USA’s Death Spiral?
Bundeskanzler Willy Brandt besichtigte am 1.3.1974 die Zeche “Minister Stein” in Dortmund-Eving Despite its Recent Pivot, Germany Was Always a Counterweight to American Adventurism by Phil Hall The American empire is bankrupt, deindustrialised, and addicted to war. Its “leadership” is a farce. The U.S. has caused more global instability than…
Alfred Rosenberg
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Divide and Collapse: From Bandera to BRICS in 80 Years
by Phil Hall The history of Ukrainian nationalism, in one of its earliest iterations (and most virulent forms) rose out of the civil war in the early 1920s when 22 armies invaded the Soviet Union in an attempt to overthrow the Soviet government. Britain was the main backer and enemy…
Gustavo Alatorre
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José Pulido
The International Colloquium of Poetry and Philosophy is the brainchild of the Mexican poet and writer Ulises Paniagua. Taking part in the fifth iteration of the colloquium, Jose Pulido, the renowned and universally revered Venezuelan poet read out several of his poems and was interviewed by the Mexican poet Gustavo Alatorre.
Alfred Hitchcock
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9. IMMOVABLE OBJECTS
Hitchcock & Selznick by Norman B. Schwartz The irresistible force paradox, a law of physics, states that when an immovable object meets an unstoppable force, each is indestructible. When that happens, as the law was later interpreted by Miss Doris Day – well, something’s got to give. Without doubt, the…
Karl Rutlidge
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Two New Malden Poets: Evensong & Psalm
photo Karl Rutlidge I’ve been working on a poem for a while to try and capture the grief I’ve felt following the Supreme Court ruling and its aftermath, and an experience of God I had while spending time in Regent’s Park, which is where this photo was taken. For context,…
Amal Chatterjee
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Seven times three
The Thinker by Rodin, photo Phil Hall by Amal Chatterjee In my childhood, art in its myriad forms involved perplexing encounters with the good, the worthy and, no doubt, the banal and ridiculous. I had no way of telling them apart, I possessed no judgement. I consumed – or rather,…
Arun Kapil
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Global Guts & Local Plates
Drying Roses, photo by Oziel Gómez Are You Crying Over Rose Petals? by Arun Kapil We live in the golden age of food fusion. From kimchi toasties to samosa tacos, the global pantry has never been more open. The streets of Cork, London, Birmingham and Dublin drip with imaginative remixes:…
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