No free press. No democracy
3
Feb
Category Archives: general
Yes, it bloody well is about oil!
29
Jan
The best comedians are the cleverest people on the planet. I’m grateful to a BTL comment on OffGuardian, below a piece of mine on Venezuela, for linking to this forty-five minute video. It has Robert Newman saying exactly what I … Read More »
Breast cancer, feminism, Israeli warplanes
16
Jan
THIS POST ALSO FEATURES IN OffGuardian I’m critical of identity politics both in its passive form, as theory-lite substitute for class analyses of oppression and exploitation, and in its more active manifestations. Such as when, in 2016, millions of progressives … Read More »
Two prose poems
7
Jan
Brecht is powerful but it’s Michael Rosen who captures our zeitgeist.
How NOT to combat “antisemitism”
6
Jan
Below is a Facebook exchange, I think self explanatory, from a few days ago. Let me say right out I never set eyes on any of its three participants, though last week Ian Jenkins sent a friend request after I’d … Read More »
Three short reads for 2019
2
Jan
Coffee and funny money accountancy writ large … a supremely well penned salute to five heroic contrarians … the wickedly accurate putting straight, by a Presbyterian minister, of all who see in Donald Trump some mystifyingly aberrant wrong turn by … Read More »
Antisemitic verses
17
Dec
The OffGuardian version of my recent post, First they came for the socialists, elicited this below the line exchange: How do you respond to a comment like that? You don’t want to grace it with too considered a response. That … Read More »
First they came for the socialists …
10
Dec
this post also features in offguardian It’s ten to one you read in my title the opener to a much cited quote about Nazi Germany. And two to one that even if you couldn’t identify the author, Pastor Martin Niemöller, … Read More »
“Sources say …” The Guardian on Assange
28
Nov
The fact-free traducing of Julian Assange, to whom all progressives owe an immense debt of gratitude, continues in our not so liberal media. Another sound piece from OffGuardian’s Kit Knightly, writing yesterday, begins thus: Luke Harding and Dan Collyns, writing … Read More »
Your debt and mine to Julian Assange
23
Oct
this post also features in offguardian In a recent post I referred to the vile treatment of a man who brought us irrefutible evidence, and in screeds, that the widely cherished notion of the West being democratic is a fat … Read More »