Category Archives: politics
The Pandora Papers: controlled dissent?
Image from The Guardian, October 3 Here’s how the Guardian opened its coverage of the Pandora Papers. Whose face is the most instantly recognisable? Whose, and by a hefty margin, the largest? You wouldn’t know it from this pictorial smear but … Read More »
More crap thinking on Covid
David Leonhardt, New York Times, September 27, 2021 The messianic certainty I detect on all sides of the Covid conversation is dismaying. People with no obvious qualification to do so are not only sounding off in FB echo chambers as … Read More »
China is bad!
Says Rosa …
The most revolutionary thing we can do is always proclaim loudly what is happening Speaking of Rosa, early Xmas shoppers, methodically placing ticks against the names on their prezzie lists, might consider this gem from cartoonist and writer Kate … Read More »
Brexit, Dali and cognitive dissonance
In Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali, George Orwell targeted a knee-jerk mode of thinking; a binary either/or refusal to see (or acknowledge) nuance and complexity. Why, asked Orwell, did the liberal progressives of his day who recognised … Read More »
We need to talk about Kim
I just did a Google search on genocide north korea. Here are the first six returns. An axiomatic understanding all sane and well intentioned folk, whatever their political stripe, are fully signed up for. No matter that what the average … Read More »
“Israel was born in sin”
Two days ago Israel’s liberal daily, Haaretz, ran this: ‘Israel Was Born in Sin. I’m Collaborating With a Criminal Country,’ Says Former PM’s Son The son of the man who signed Israel’s Declaration of Independence in 1948 is ending his days as … Read More »
Salisbury – the Third Man!
Molly Blackall’s write up today in The i Paper tells us that: All three of the suspects are believed to be in Russia, which means that a court case against them is unlikely. I guess it does. It also leaves … Read More »
An open letter: isn’t China “just as bad”?
Dear Zoltan Jorovic Thank you again for your comment on my post of September 2. You focus on a key aspect – China Rising and the West’s response – of a more general piece. I intend to respond very specifically … Read More »