At the Feast of Passover two thousand years ago it was customary for the Roman occupiers to pardon one condemned prisoner, selected by the people. All four Gospels have it that on one very special year the crowds insisted on … Read More »
this post also features in offguardian I saw this film last night at a one-off screening in Derby. It’s all you’d expect of a John Pilger documentary. Polished and professional? Well of course, but more importantly: Hard hitting, its straight-from-the … Read More »
Boris Johnson's lies. We can’t let him get away with this. Posted by The Labour Party on Friday, 6 December 2019
The Guardian today. Snapshots from June 2017 … * Frequently deployed – cynically, stupidly and lazily – to dismiss an argument without the effort of addressing its particulars, the conspiracy theorist epithet refers to an assumed pathological condition. It’s … Read More »
Nicky Morgan, BoJo’s Culture Secretary, and her fifty thousand ‘new’ nurses: Biggest Car Crash Interview Ever! A Conservative MP tries to redefine what 'more' means. Truly horrifying. Posted by Momentum on Monday, 25 November 2019
Today in the View From Nazareth, award winning journalist Jonathan Cook writes: Corbyn’s democratic socialism is the first serious attempt by Labour since the Thatcher years to try to reverse the enormous and relentless economic gains made by Britain’s corporate … Read More »
this post also features in offguardian Today BBC World at One featured responses to the Chief Rabbi’s extraordinary attack. Zero evidence offered. Silence on the relative extent of antisemitic views within the two main parties, and vis a vis the … Read More »
this post also features in offguardian Is Britain’s forthcoming general election the most critical since 1945? Or just since 1979? While the Johnny Walker wisdom runs high on that, we can all agree – saving those who on principle shun … Read More »
Ecuador Embassy, London. April 11, 2019.
“I never thought it would be this hard”, says Rickie Turner to Abby his wife, holding her tight in a brief moment of intimacy before sleep overtakes them. Rickie is working fourteen hours a day, seven days a week. Abby … Read More »