Dear George I’d hoped you might have changed your tune – or at least laid off the Kool Aid and for once kept your head down on things Syria. You haven’t though. Above is your bizarre tweet in response to … Read More »
* * * In the first and more specific of two reminders – lest tears fog up our memory – Fire Brigades Union General Secretary Matt Wrack points out that: Many of the underlying issues at Grenfell were due to … Read More »
Today in Attenborough.
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Every once in a while I try to make sense of otherwise savvy people who refuse to see a reality staring us in the face: that on any number of metrics the USA is the world’s most lawless state. * … Read More »
Yesterday on Facebook, erstwhile Pink Floyd powerhouse Roger Waters, even better off stage than on, wrote this of the Douma lies. WHERE ARE THE HEADLINES? On April 7th 2018, Al Nusra/White Helmets, whoever, staged a chemical weapons attack in Douma, … Read More »
Monday. Walking the Erewash Canal from Long Eaton to Trentlock, I snapped a moorhen and remembered I need to go back to Nottingham to see the moorchicks spied from my canoe nine days ago, on the Beeston Cut opposite the … Read More »
For a characteristically witty piece on “President Bolton”, see Caitlin Johnstone in fine form with a post four days ago and viewable here. But this Daily Beast offering from thirteen months ago, on the man’s appointment to National Security Advisor, … Read More »
Amy was right to ask.