The G20 summit recently started, and finished, and along with it the protests. What there is to say here is not a new and revolutionary pattern of behaviour from the police, but rather, what seems as though it may well be one of the final nails in the coffin of peaceful protest - time will tell. This is, after all, a pattern of behaviour that has been present at major protests and events from long ago. The Battle of the Beanfield, or the Miners strike are examples, but perhaps the best example is that of the Southall Race Riots, which I’ll leave you to look up for yourself. Particularly notable in that last example of course is the death of one Blair Peach, 33 years old, whome 11 witnesses saw struck by police, but to this day no police officer has been charged, no public investigation has occured (in spite of a continuing campaign for one, with no less than 79 MP’s calling for one at the time.

Well, recently it… Continue reading

This is perhaps an unusual article for The Bone, for the fact that one of its main features is a piece of work created other than by the person who wrote it. There is however a good reason - it concerns a subject so simple that almost nobody on the street understands it, yet the majority of such people worship it with no idea of what it’s about. Forget Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Paganism, Judaism, Hinduism or in fact any other “ism”, it’s the biggest God the world has ever known (albeit a false god in the view of most other religions), and it comes by many Names - Finance, Economics, Capital, Profit, … You probably know it best as “Money”.

You may well be thinking at this point that this may be some kind of rant against the greedy aquisition of material wealth, but you’d be mistaken. It’s not: It’s quite the opposite. You see, Money has no value, and that’s not about spiritual value or how our souls could be clouded in darkness by it’s worship. It’s about the fact that Money… Continue reading