Some folks – I’m tempted to call them psychological sectarians, more interested in ‘othering’ those outside their cosy club than effecting change in this Vale of Tears – will slam me for this, but all three of my picks this … Read More »
Indulge me a moment, will you? At fifteen I acquired a stepmother. We never got on. Her and dad’s insistence that she be called “mum” didn’t help. For the two years we spent in the same house – I … Read More »
I realise – of course I do – that I’m being a right royal pain. Here I am once more, testing to the limit my readers’ good nature and fairmindedness with the latest of a string of posts in rapid … Read More »
I am very concerned about the collusion of prosecution and judge to close this case down. The extraordinary conflation of “time management” and excluding evidence the US Government does not want heard in public is plainly illegitimate. The continual chivvying … Read More »
On November 27, 2018 the Guardian published a “bombshell”, swiftly taken up by other of the world’s media. Authors Luke Harding and Dan Collyns alleged that President Trump’s campaign manager Paul Manafort, convicted three months earlier on eight counts of … Read More »
The West, Europe and Antipodes almost as much as North America, is about to be plunged into an extravanganza of faux democracy as two rival multimillionaires, both with unsavoury sexual pasts, and their billionaire backers face off in the US … Read More »
I was fifteen when I took from the library, and devoured in two days, Ludovic Kennedy’s 10 Rillington Place. (It was later made into a film with Richard Attenborough as murderer John Reginald Christie). Christie’s crimes against women were sickening, … Read More »
I began a recent post with this assertion: The western world is inhabited by those who know we are ruled by sociopaths … and that much larger group which, taking at face value the surface forms of democracy informed by independent media, … Read More »
People mocking Trump don’t see the system which produced him – Arundhati Roy Establishment narrative managers know how to manipulate public perception without being obvious, and understand that an incompetent steward of empire can snap people out of their trance. … Read More »
this post also features in offguardian Hiroshima, August 6, 1945 Of course the people don’t want war. That is understood … But after all it is the leaders who determine the policy and it is a simple matter to drag … Read More »