For several years now, I have been writing these regular blog posts
with one end in mind: to help open a door for readers and encourage them
to step through. I select issues, usually those that dominate western
media coverage and represent a consensus that we might term the Great
Western Narrative, and try to show how this narrative has been
constructed not to inform and enlighten but to conceal and deceive.
It is not that I and the many other bloggers doing this are cleverer
than everyone else. We have simply had a chance – an earlier one – to
step through that door ourselves, because of a jarring life experience
that the Great Western Narrative could not explain, or because someone
held the door open for us, or more usually because of a combination of
the two.
