I have lost patience with people who acknowledge the existence of western lies and propaganda about Syria, yet still maintain that Assad is an evil dictator who needs to be deposed … … The correct position between “kill all Jews” … Read More »
Rye, East Sussex, looking down the hill and northward from St Mary’s Church . On this site you don’t just get unerring political analysis leavened with travelogue and stunning nature shots. Oh no. You also get literary debate. To my … Read More »
Of all the quotes gracing my masthead over the years, usually from the most astute of political minds, past and present, one of my favourites is not by a political analyst but a comedian. We’re all a bit of a … Read More »
This MIntPress News appeal for funding landed in my mailbox this morning. I’m posting because of its pithy assessment of the state we’re in: Dear friend, In the era of a declining US empire, censorship has become the last resort … Read More »
Something for the weekend? As another one commences, you’ll be wanting to uplift, inform and sharpen a mind dulled by the urgent banalities of the corporate world. Try this interview with economist and geopolitical analyst Michael Hudson, whom I regard … Read More »
I recently had an email from a reader wanting to know how I could possibly see any good in George Monbiot. My attitude to this columnist is overall negative – see my post, what’s the point of George Monbiot? – … Read More »
Most of my writings on identity politics have been in the context either of imperialism’s wars, or the vitriolically divisive claim that sex is not binary but a spectrum – hence a question more of subjective identity than empirically observable … Read More »
I had this email today from Dave Hansell, a frequent Steel City commentator: During the UEFA Europa League Round of 16 second leg football match between Red Star Belgrade and Glasgow Rangers at the Rajko Mitic Stadium, in Belgrade, Serbia, … Read More »
That I write so little about the domestic affairs of my own country is down to lack of time, not of interest or concern. Sometimes I yearn to shed political writing altogether. And do what? Why, augment my pictorial essays … Read More »
Shock and Awe comes to Baghdad, March 2003 Fourteen months ago I opened a post on the tragedy of Corbynism with this: On a few issues – Russia, the 2016 US Election, Brexit, Syria, Venezuela – my positions, and reactions … Read More »
