A good few people for whom I have great respect – and one or two for whom I harbour no such sentiment – are denouncing Russia’s move on Ukraine. I will not, which puts me at odds even with those … Read More »
The Official Story The official story is that we live in a free democracy where our teachers tell us the truth about our nation, our government and our world when we are children, and then the free press continue telling … Read More »
As she so often does, Caitlin Johnstone, in her post today, has taken the words from my mouth: It Takes A Touch Of Madness: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix It takes a touch of madness to … Read More »
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Yesterday in the Metro (also in Daily Mail, Independent, Times, Sun and – ta-da! – Wakefield Express) … Marks and Spencer has become the first high street retailer to relabel Midget Gems over complaints the name is outdated. A disability campaigner … Read More »
The other day I liked – both in the FB and literal sense – the post of a friend who’d offered this image. But isn’t it incompatible with the image I posted a few days ago? Only if we have … Read More »
In her blog post six days ago, Caitlin Johnstone wrote: The most powerful regime on the planet imprisoning a journalist for journalistic activity is as brazen and obvious an act of tyranny as you could possibly come up with, and … Read More »
“Kill the Bill” protest in Nottingham, 28/3/21 I take issue with George Monbiot on one or two vital matters, and agree with Jonathan Cook’s unflattering assessment of the man’s role – Cook doesn’t do ad-hominem – as given in my … Read More »
The River Soar yesterday. What follows is less pretty. I’m promoting three reads here, starting with Caitlin Johnstone’s post today: Humanity Is Still Trying To Be Born Things are fucked. That’s our current situation in a nutshell. In a slightly … Read More »
Anthropologist Margaret Mead was once asked what she deemed the first sign of civilization in a culture. Fish hooks? Pottery? Flint spear heads? No. Mead replied that the earliest discovered sign of civilization was a femur which had been broken … Read More »
