Jeffrey Side

The history of philosophy and spirituality in the ancient world is often seen as a series of isolated discoveries. Greek rationalism is pres...

For a few months in 1993, I attended meetings of the Hare Krishna movement (formally known as ISKCON: International Society for Krishna Cons...

When COVID-19 restrictions faded and societies reopened, one might have expected the most dramatic pandemic-era conspiracy narratives to fad...

I always think about the past, yearning to go back in time to my youth, when the world seemed a better place and life was full of endless po...

Before I studied poetry, I spent two years studying film; not at a prestigious film school, but at a small college in Liverpool, called Sout...

I Just found this very old review of my 'Carrier of the Seed' ebook. I never knew it existed. Quote from it: "Those skeptical a...

Unable to bear it any longer, I start splintering . . . I write this in big letters, my eyesight is fading . . . When my father in law died ...

Last night, I saw a repeat on TV of a 1989 documentary called Heart of the Angel , part of the BBC’s 1980s 40 Minutes  series of documentari...

Last year I noticed for the first time that Bob Dylan’s singing voice on Nashville Skyline  was a direct homage to Jimmie Rodgers. I’d been ...

A dear friend of mine died in 2010, aged only 40. Her name was Rachel Lisi. She was an unknown poet who deserved to be known. She was also a...

It’s been several years now since Kent Johnson passed. I had corresponded with him for roughly a decade, from around 2008 until a few months...

The “Great Replacement” theory alleges that governments or shadowy elites are deliberately engineering the decline of white, European-descen...

Sometimes the most telling examples of flawed reasoning don’t come from articles but from real conversations. Below is a recent exchange I h...

Here is an interesting video presenting a detailed look at Nigel Farage’s past, including allegations of racism, financial controversies and...

The “New World Order” (NWO) conspiracy theory has long been a narrative framework for groups sceptical of globalisation, supranational gover...

The debate over whether poems and songs are separate art forms or simply variations of the same aesthetic expression has a long history. At ...

Time travel has fascinated human imagination, often depicted as the ability to physically travel to the past and change history. But what if...

When the UK government launched the Restart Programme, it was sold as a bold initiative to help the long-term unemployed back into work. Pro...

GB News is claiming a "seismic moment" in British broadcasting. Why? Because in July 2025, it barely managed to edge past the BBC ...

I was a young child in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the world I grew up in was saturated with everyday scents that were distinctive a...

The new ebook from Argotist Ebooks is ‘The Poetics of Ambiguity: Romanticism, Empiricism and the Modern Mind’ by Jeffrey Side. Description: ...

Recent insider disclosures from an Employment Advisor (EA) working within the UK government’s Restart Scheme, shared openly on Reddit (see l...

The UK government claims to be cutting back on welfare spending: tightening eligibility, toughening work requirements and cracking down on s...

I first came across the music of Aaron Copland in 1989. I already knew that his work had influenced the sound of Hollywood Western film scor...