Arundhati Roy nails it on Trump
15
Aug
Category Archives: general
Capital punishment? It’s simple really
9
Aug
In my nineteen sixties mid teens, when normal lads were out on the street playing togger and beginning to get interested in girls, I was reading such uplifting works as The Trial of Steven Truscot, about a Canadian fifteen year … Read More »
Bad arguments for good causes
8
Aug
I should make the above the recurring header for a regular column … Spotted today on FB: George Orwell, of whom I have a few criticisms and not all of them minor, could also be right on the nail. In … Read More »
Pity the nation
2
Aug
Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds… Pity the nation that needs to jail those who ask for justice while communal killers, mass murderers, corporate scamsters, looters, rapists and those who prey on the … Read More »
The man who planted trees
28
Jul
Jean Giono’s The Man Who Planted Trees tells of a shepherd’s single-handed effort to re-forest a desolate valley in the Alpine foothills of Provence in the early 20th century. If you haven’t read it, and lingered over illustrator Michael McCurdy’s … Read More »
What if?
22
Jul
Nils Melzer on Julian Assange
27
Jun
This from wiki: Nils Melzer is a Swiss academic, author and practitioner in the field of international law. Since 2016, Melzer has been serving as United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture. He is Professor of International Law at the University … Read More »
Profit and the Arms Economy
15
May
This post also features in OffGuardian Three years ago, Global Research showed that interests backing Trident also finance Russia’s nuclear programme. This news, relayed a few months later by the Canary, should have caused a storm in anti-war circles. In … Read More »
Letter to Julian Assange
13
May
Dear Julian Thank you for your courage. It shames me as a socialist that so many whose leftist views should have had them backing you, in gratitude for the truths you brought us and to demand an end to the … Read More »