Jeffrey Side

Monday, 24 November 2025

Vedic Influences on Greek Philosophy and Christianity

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The history of philosophy and spirituality in the ancient world is often seen as a series of isolated discoveries. Greek rationalism is pres...
Saturday, 22 November 2025

My Brief Experience with the Hare Krishna Movement

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For a few months in 1993, I attended meetings of the Hare Krishna movement (formally known as ISKCON: International Society for Krishna Cons...
Thursday, 20 November 2025

'Why COVID Conspiracy Movements Refused to Retreat When Reality Moved On' by Robert Miller—guest blogger and former COVID sceptic

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When COVID-19 restrictions faded and societies reopened, one might have expected the most dramatic pandemic-era conspiracy narratives to fad...
Sunday, 16 November 2025

The Block Universe Time Travel Model

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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...
Saturday, 8 November 2025

Reflections on a Lost Cinema

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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...

Old 'Carrier of the Seed' ebook review

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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...
Thursday, 6 November 2025

‘Death, Taxes and Poetry, or, Poetry is My Disability’ by Joritz-Nakagawa—guest blogger

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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 ...
Tuesday, 28 October 2025

Life Behind the Scenes at London Underground's Angel Station in 1989

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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...
Friday, 24 October 2025

Bob Dylan’s “Jimmie Rodgers” Voice on ‘Nashville Skyline’

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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 ...
Friday, 17 October 2025

Rachel Lisi—Still Remembered

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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...
Tuesday, 14 October 2025

Kent Johnson: In Praise of Mischief and Literary Disruption

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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...
Friday, 26 September 2025

'Debunking the Great Replacement Theory' by Ryan Soames—guest blogger

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The “Great Replacement” theory alleges that governments or shadowy elites are deliberately engineering the decline of white, European-descen...
Monday, 15 September 2025

How Bad Arguments Hide Risky Ideas

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Sometimes the most telling examples of flawed reasoning don’t come from articles but from real conversations. Below is a recent exchange I h...
Tuesday, 9 September 2025

Nigel Farage Expose Video

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Here is an interesting video presenting a detailed look at Nigel Farage’s past, including allegations of racism, financial controversies and...
Friday, 5 September 2025

'The Irony of MAGA’s War on the New World Order' by Ryan Soames—guest blogger

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The “New World Order” (NWO) conspiracy theory has long been a narrative framework for groups sceptical of globalisation, supranational gover...
Wednesday, 13 August 2025

Poetry and Song Are the Same Artform

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The debate over whether poems and songs are separate art forms or simply variations of the same aesthetic expression has a long history. At ...
Tuesday, 12 August 2025

Being Stuck Inside Your Old Self

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Time travel has fascinated human imagination, often depicted as the ability to physically travel to the past and change history. But what if...
Sunday, 10 August 2025

'An Insider’s Damning Testimony of the Restart Scheme' by Andrew Davies—guest blogger

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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...
Friday, 1 August 2025

'GB News Overrates its Ratings' by Andrew Davies—guest blogger

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GB News is claiming a "seismic moment" in British broadcasting. Why? Because in July 2025, it barely managed to edge past the BBC ...
Tuesday, 29 July 2025

Scents Before Modernity

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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 Poetics of Ambiguity: Romanticism, Empiricism and the Modern Mind’ - free ebook

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The new ebook from Argotist Ebooks is ‘The Poetics of Ambiguity: Romanticism, Empiricism and the Modern Mind’ by Jeffrey Side. Description: ...
Saturday, 19 July 2025

'The DWP Restart Scheme Exposed: The Secret Job Searches and Sanction Threats Unveiled by an Insider' by Andrew Davies—guest blogger

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Recent insider disclosures from an Employment Advisor (EA) working within the UK government’s Restart Scheme, shared openly on Reddit (see l...
Friday, 18 July 2025

'How the DWP's Restart Scheme Funnels Welfare Money to Private Firms' by Andrew Davies—guest blogger

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The UK government claims to be cutting back on welfare spending: tightening eligibility, toughening work requirements and cracking down on s...
Thursday, 10 July 2025

The Evolution of the Western Film Score

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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...
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