Journalists who know what’s good for them please editors, while editors who know what’s good for them please proprietors. Proprietors not only crave honours and seats at the high table. They also need advertisers and, in the case of the … Read More »
Two days ago the Guardian and four other liberal newspapers published a joint letter which began: Publishing is not a crime: The US government should end its prosecution of Julian Assange for publishing secrets. Twelve years ago, on November 28th 2010, our five international … Read More »
Have you noticed how folk with zero military experience have an uncanny knack for being front of the queue in promoting wars for others to fight? Last night I checked the profile of historian and Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash. … Read More »
In the fog of war – and/or propaganda blitz – truth is notoriously hard to come by. Never more so than when, as is almost always the case, those countries and leaders vilified by our squeaky clean politicians … … … Read More »
Sergey Lavrov at the G20 summit, in the lead image for Patrick Wintour’s Guardian report of November 15, 2022 I regard Patrick Wintour as up there with Luke Harding as one of the Guardian’s Russia baiters in chief. Which is … Read More »
I don’t know a way of saying this that won’t sound egotistical so I’m not going to try. One of the most decisive differences – there aren’t many – separating me from most of my fellows is that they think … Read More »
Our species draws a sharp distinction between intended and unintended harm, even when the outcomes are identical. That’s why the law distinguishes manslaughter from murder. In both, the victim of a criminal deed dies as a direct consequence of that … Read More »
Condemning Putin is the safest, most redundant and least courageous thing that anyone in the western world can do right now. What’s a lot harder is taking a bold stand against the west’s depraved role in getting this war started … Read More »
The US Ambassador to Russia taking to Twitter with a widely held view of President Putin, one echoed in the image below It’s occasionally put to me that, were I a citizen of Russia or China, I wouldn’t be free … Read More »
They laughed because they were untouchable, not because what I said was wrong. Sinead O’Connor Let me start with a few core truths about Julian Assange: Even if this man was a rapist – he isn’t – that is not … Read More »
