See also: Roddis v Sheffield Hallam Part 1 Roddis v Sheffield Hallam Part 2 Roddis v Sheffield Hallam Part 3 Roddis v Sheffield Hallam Part 4 Roddis v Sheffield Hallam Part 5 Roddis v Sheffield Hallam Part 6 Unless you’re … Read More »
Remember that spat last August between UK Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt and Professor Stephen Hawking? Stephen, sadly, is no longer with us but Jeremy, sadly, is. Thanks to Didi Cooper for the FB alert. I wrote last month, apropos the UK … Read More »
… also available in red. Such a beautiful moment… Such a beautiful moment… Posted by JOE.ie on Tuesday, 24 April 2018
This is not part three of Why the West hates Putin. Parts one and two are already posted, while the third is in the making. Rather, this is a statement from Alexander Shulgin, head of Russia’s delegation to the UN’s … Read More »
Celebrities are on my mind. My previous steel city scribbling was on Gwynneth Paltrow’s keen advocacy of novel uses for coffee, mugwort tea and jade eggs. The post before that concerned celebrities less stratospheric – Jones, Mason and Monbiot – … Read More »
Apropos yesterday’s dramatic and historically resonant intervention by Arlene Foster’s DUP – a coming together of two of the most potently charged issues in British politics – let’s remind ourselves of the immediate antecedents of this mess. First though, here’s … Read More »
Steel City Scribblings coverage of Yemen has been sparse but this excellent piece by Media Lens – so excellent we’ve nicked its opening lines for our masthead – appeared today. The truth of corporate journalism, and the great irony of … Read More »
Some say the Devil’s signature achievement lies in convincing us he doesn’t exist. Substitute more secular terms – ruling class, say, or imperialism – and the wisdom of those words is far reaching. As is that of a further tweak: … Read More »
… on August 31, 1997, that “the people’s princess” was killed by a high speed collision in Paris’s Pont de l’Alma road tunnel. I don’t know whether or not MI5, in cahoots with Sûreté and DGSE, engineered that collision. Neither, I … Read More »
This from the Independent yesterday: A Labour MP has called for increased support and training for women in public life after revealing she received 600 rape threats in a single day last year. Speaking to The Independent, Jess Phillips, MP for Birmingham … Read More »