It’s not easy taking on a corporate body better funded and more powerful than yourself. In its small way my nine year battle with Sheffield Hallam University testifies to that. Many aspects of this week’s ITV offering, Mr Bates v … Read More »
In the normal run of things this hallowed site wouldn’t give time of day to Murdoch’s British outlet, TalkTV. Forget Piers Morgan. He’s wisdom and courtesy incarnate at the side of fellow presenters of Nadine Dorries and Jeremy Kyle stripe. … Read More »
In Ukraine the fog of war is lifting, and Russian victory assured. That doesn’t mean the endgame will not be long and blood soaked. Allied victory in WW2 had been a given – Bretton Woods in July 1944 was premised … Read More »
This is for all in desperate need of a good laugh – and who the fuck isn’t? – without it taking a scintilla from the genocidal insanity of its subject. Steel city reader Dave Hansell sent this not half an … Read More »
Is there a George Orwell Award for Most Disgusting and Intelligence-Insulting Euphemism of the Century? In the face of stiff competition from such as workforce flexibility and enhanced interrogation, if I were on its shortlisting panel I’d be giving serious … Read More »
Welcome to 2024! My previous post – three viewings at year’s end – omitted, other than a link to my December 28 post on Yemen’s magnificent show of Palestine solidarity at the Bab el-Mandeb choke point, the ongoing Holocaust. Here … Read More »
Setting aside for now the dismal failure to check neoliberalism’s ongoing and profit-driven war on the natural environment, 2023 will surely be remembered for three things. First, as the year Russia shone a terawatt beam on the limits to US … Read More »
Daniel Hannan in Britain’s Telegraph newspaper, December 9, 2023. Click on screenshot to access. In plain English, the kind you and I speak: The Biden regime has no idea what to do in the face of failure, but, as failure … Read More »
Update December 29: a useful follow up to this post is given by a John Helmer piece on Naked Capitalism. See no innocent ships. * One thing about the Middle East is that its shipping lanes have many choke points: narrow … Read More »
I’ve tried in idle moments to draw up a list of female gamekeepers turned poacher. Contrary to the useful idiocies of identity politics, Facebook’s Frances Haugen does not qualify. One who emphatically does is GCHQ’s Katharine Gun (not be confused … Read More »