A Global Brit

A Short Note on Beginings and Endings; Forget Me Not

Should sorrow cloud thy coming years, And bathe thy happiness in tears, Remember, though we’re doom’d to part, There lives one fond and faithful heart…

Aug 7 • 

Grant Rafferty

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April 2025

Is the West really lonely?

"Man is by nature a social animal" - Aristotle

Apr 23 • 

Grant Rafferty

2

Between loneliness and solitude

“If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

Apr 17 • 

Grant Rafferty

7

Thoughts on masculinity and men

"The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel it's warmth"

Apr 14 • 

Grant Rafferty

3

Ugly Britain; the uglification of the built environment

From road, to windows, to new builds, to high streets and store fronts. Britain is ugly.

Apr 10 • 

Grant Rafferty

4

March 2025

Social corrosion; bumping

It is fair to say I despise bumping. There isn’t a more prevalent low level action that is more socially corrosive to the fabric of society.

Mar 27 • 

Grant Rafferty

5

"Knowing Ball" Bias in sports fandomship

+$450 for beating Yanks at their own game.

Mar 24 • 

Grant Rafferty

3

Living in the past and moving On

Fundamentally, it’s all mental masturbation. It’s an exercise in self-pity that achieves nothing but soothing yourself with the past, to the detriment…

Mar 2 • 

Grant Rafferty

1

January 2025

The Art of the Steal; Chagos Islands

A geostrategic catastrophe

Jan 24 • 

Grant Rafferty

3

Just start; 30 in 30

"The world is full of possibilities, only I still don't know what they are" - Franz Kafka

Jan 6 • 

Grant Rafferty

4

December 2024

New Years Eve

Time in other calendars

Dec 31, 2024 • 

Grant Rafferty

6

On Albert Camus: the Absurd

"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer."

Dec 30, 2024 • 

Grant Rafferty

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