In her blog post today, Caitlin Johnstone implicitly draws on the great man’s insight with these words: You don’t own your comrades. A lot of people will get angrier about a political ally disagreeing with them on one percent of … Read More »
NB for those who got here via my e-alert to this post, my remarks on the brilliant C4 drama, Help, come after these idiotic outpourings on Britain’s nuclear weapons. * Late yesterday a FB post plugging BBC History Extra began … Read More »
Yesterday a thirty-something hearing specialist at my local NHS Clinic told me, after peering into my left ear through some optical wizardry, that she expects the NHS to go “in my lifetime”. Her reasoning, and command of the facts, were … Read More »
The Boss nailed it: Got in a little hometown jam … I was bought in the USA, I was bought in the USA … Capitalism – it’s an institute you can’t disparage. *
Last night I watched for the second time an episode of Accused, the 2010 series from the pen of Jimmy McGovern, now on Netflix. Here’s an abridged Wiki synopsis of Frankie’s Story: Frankie and Peter join the army to get … Read More »
Capitalist pharmacy produces suboptimal health outcomes, if not outright harm. Seeing the problem as production for private profit, under governments led by plutocrats, is the first step to a solution. A second is seeing that planned production by publicly owned … Read More »
My two links are, respectively, to this post and this one. *
The real Xinjiang story is not so difficult to understand: The rise of Xi Jinping and the Belt & Road Initiative posed a serious challenge to American supremacy much earlier than they were expecting, so the US amped up their … Read More »
In his book, Bad Science, Ben Goldacre, who used to have a Guardian column of that name, does three things. He: targets the shoddy thinking (at best) used to promote ‘alternative medicine’; targets the even bigger health risk posed by … Read More »
Life is not an easy matter. We cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless we have before us a great idea to raise us above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. … Read More »