If you’re a fan of the Netflix show Narcos you’ll be familiar with the name Carlos Lehder. A notorious member of the Medellin cartel and one of Pablo Escobar’s right-hand men, he had a bizarre obsession with both John Lennon and Adolf Hitler. Now aged 70, Lehder has been released from a US jail where…
As well as a statue being brought down in Ghana, thousands have signed petitions in Leicester to have one of the famous Indian independence leader taken down. From this we can glean a number of important facts, such as people have a real hard-on for statues right now, a lot of people really don’t understand…
I’d never truly believed in PTSD, or post-traumatic stress disorder until I read the recent article about Glory Holes by my colleague at Weird World Wire Josh Green. You can read the article here, but the long and short of it is that New York is suggesting Glory Holes as a way to help fight…
After reading my colleague’s piece on how New York is now recommending “Glory Holes” as a way to avoid coronavirus, I was hit with two big thoughts. Firstly could the year get any worse? And secondly would it be possible for me to lower the bar further at Weird World Wire? It was then that…
This weekend fascists came to London and fought the police in Parliament Square, and one even urinated on the memorial plaque of PC Keith Palmer who died protecting civilians from Islamic terrorists, giving fascists around the great nation of England an unexpected dilemma. These last few weeks have been a fantastic period for English fascists,…
The Gorbachev Pizza Hut Advert. How on Earth did it come to this? Mikhail Gorbachev, last premier of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, leader of what remained of the socialist world, reduced to an advert for pizza. From an American pizza chain no less! How the hell did that happen!? Well, we’ll need to…
Okay, so a few things right off the bat. A Trotskyist is a revolutionary socialist following in the footsteps of Russian Bolshevik Leon Trotsky and (debatably) Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. They distinguish themselves from Marxist-Leninists (often termed ‘Stalinists’ or sometimes ‘Tankies’) with a focus on the theory of permanent revolution, this being the idea that…
Within the cancel culture hellscape in which we all currently reside, it is nothing new for friends and even family to be disowned, for companies to sever alliances with other companies, and for entire city blocks to be destroyed in the name of one group’s idea of progress. We live in a time when a…