“Those who looked the other way, because they disliked Julian Assange, when the Department of Justice indicted him on a legal theory – that publishing clear public interest journalism could constitute multiple Espionage Act violations – should reconsider where that … Read More »
A friend emailed yesterday, saying I hadn’t been posting much of late and wanting to know I’m OK. I’m not, as it happens. I’m depressed, a little frightened and very confused. None of these states are bad things. They don’t … Read More »
Two weeks ago an essay appeared on the Lockdown Sceptics site by one Alexis Fitzgerald. Headed, The Left-Wing Case Against Lockdown, it began thus: I consider myself to be left-wing on virtually every political topic: I am a socially-liberal social … Read More »
this post also features on off-guardian As I had last month, I’d wanted in my three reads this month to start addressing the alarming bellicosity of Washington in respect of several nations, but most frighteningly China. For those with some … Read More »
I enjoyed yesterday’s trip down memory lane. Judging on number of visits, comments below the line and private emails sent in response, so did others. Though a scribbler all my life, I only really found my stride fifteen years ago … Read More »
On Monday, February 25, day one of Julian Assange’s extradition hearing was held at Belmarsh Magistrates Court. Read about the days that followed in Craig Murray’s excellent court reports. Two days earlier, on Saturday, February 22, a rally was held … Read More »
This from a woman who describes herself as ‘exited from prostitution, highly critical of the practice of buying sex and increasingly alienated within feminist circles’: Trans activists [seek] to convince you that because a small minority have ambiguous genitalia or … Read More »
Next year my partner Jackie will turn sixty. For most of her working life that had been the age of eligibility for a state pension the OECD says is the lowest in the developed world. But as you may have … Read More »
Reshaping global food production in the image of corporate imperialism … a brief and bloody history of capitalism in its lead nation … the pillorying of the world’s most famous whistle-blower … Welcome to my reads of the month. * … Read More »