I never watch togger any other time, but get excited at world cup games. In a packed pub in Birmingham on Tuesday night I amazed myself by leaping to my feet to scream “off-off–OFF” after a smirking Barrios head-butted Henderson … Read More »
On March 23 this year, Employment Appeal Judge Mary Stacey overturned two previous Employment Tribunal rulings that my claim against Sheffield Hallam University of less favourable treatment as a part time employee could not be heard. In a judgment with … Read More »
That UK media are owned by billionaires and/or dependent on market forces is insufficiently appreciated. Even those who in theory grasp the significance of such ownership patterns and market dependence too often abandon their understanding in the face of relentless … Read More »
I’ve admired Pink Floyd for over fifty years, since 1967’s Piper at the Gates of Dawn, but for most of that time neither knew nor cared what their politics were. That they were kind of radical in a petit-bourgeois way … Read More »
Saree Makdisi, American of Palestinian descent, writing today in CounterPunch Two spectacles unfolded in Palestine on Monday. In Gaza, Israeli army snipers shot and killed 58 Palestinians—including six children—and injured almost three thousand others amid scenes of smoke, fire, teargas, … Read More »
A 2015 poll conducted by, I kid you not, the Israeli Society of Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery found Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked the Knesset’s best looking female politician. You can see why. But then, I don’t suppose odious opinions carry … Read More »
Craig Murray, the ambassador to Uzbekistan Blair sacked for embarrassing the war effort on Iraq, yesterday blogged these words in response to the Gaza killings. A massacre occurred today in which more people were killed than at Glencoe. All of … Read More »
I don’t write much on the Labour Party or antisemitism and when I do it tends to be prompted by their having merged, zionist apologetics finding synergy with Doing For Jezza. Even then it’s usually been because that synergy folded … Read More »
Yesterday an Al-Monitor piece by Akiva Eldar contrasted Netanyahu’s success in getting Trump out of the Iranian nuclear deal, and to ‘recognise’ Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, with his failure to pull off the same in Europe. Eldar also finds time … Read More »