Wealth of Negations(Wealth of Negations announce new, regularly updated archive section)… Despite just how unbelievably bad things now are, here are some worthy stories for celebration from the past months: SENEGALESE UPRISING TOPPLES GOVERNMENT : APRIL 2ND, 2024 Bassirou Diomaye Faye, a little-known opposition leader locked away in jail in March without trial, having been charged with […]
(Wealth of Negations will begin a regularly updated & curated section on selected stories we find of major significance– as partial as any such selection will necessarily be). Our Climate Emergency is already being updated daily in April 2024. Click above & find new stories & links added to bottom of the page… Multiplying Weather […]
Street sounds and music have been an aspect of class war, prompting racist, anti-immigrant sentiment for some considerable time, dating back to the middle ages in Britain. In the early 19th Century repressive attempts to reign-in the threat of swarmery and mass insurrection amongst the lower orders resulted in the Street Music (Metropolis) Bill of […]
First posted on August 6, 2011 Appendix: GAG-REFLEX GRAMMAR Constructive dismissal of the VERB : This is NOT a matter of the linguistic etiquette that preoccupies self-appointed defenders of ‘correct’, ‘standard’ or ‘received’ usage. Anyone making claims about ‘correct’ pronunciation spouts pure class-cultural bigotry. Codified spelling – a fairly recent imposition on the highly syncretic […]
First posted on April 4, 2015 Those with asterisks are additions to existing entries (see full list even further below). ALMOST: A most melancholic word. BEHAVIOUR*: (4.) Behaviour improvement path. Whereby children under supervision learn to stop asking: Why? BEST PRACTICE: The way of doing things that suits those who have control over the doing […]