Parallel to East Nanjing Road, five hundred metres west of the southbound bend where Su Zhou Creek meets Shanghai’s Huang Pu River, is an upstreet precinct where I spent what was meant to be my last night in China. We … Read More »
From Facebook, today.
So, the Guardian is now filling its columns with fake, heavily qualified and borderline amnesiac apologies for getting Corbyn so stunningly wrong. Let’s remind ourselves just how relentlessly offensive its vilification has been. Here’s a sample, taken from the much more comprehensive set assembled by … Read More »
Labour’s incredible showing? One of the few real apologies to date has been from an Owen Jones big enough to come out with the three toughest words in the English language: I am sorry. Good on you, Owen. Meanwhile, in the face … Read More »
Writing in the Guardian on New Year’s Day 2016, John Harris explained thus the appeal of Jeremy Corbyn: I am not exactly .. a Corbynista, but … whatever his suitability for the job, Corbyn is where he is for one … Read More »
Kenneth Surin, writing yesterday in CounterPunch … Labour under Jeremy Corbyn has been gaining steadily in the polls, despite a massive media campaign to undermine him, extending from the BBC and supposedly “liberal” Guardian to the UK’s famously ghastly tabloids. … Read More »
Over the years I’ve twice begun this dystopian feminist vision, and twice given up on it – a thing I rarely do with a novel – as woodenly predictable. Seventeenth century Massachusetts garb and post holocaust premise don’t help, striking … Read More »
I recommend reading this piece in full – and if you’ve the time, watching Vanessa Beeley’s hour long video – at 21st century Wire. The only thing keeping westerners from seeing through the lies they’ve been told about Syria is … Read More »
Why is this statement of the blindingly obvious such a ‘hugely controversial step’? Because we draw conclusions on the causes of salafist terror without troubling to join the dots on a quarter century of western aggression in the middle east, … Read More »
Like you, I’m appalled by the news from Manchester. My views on its causes are no secret. Now is not the time to restate them. * Why don’t I shut up about Syria? My views aren’t popular and I’m not … Read More »