In my previous post, on America’s Christian Right, I said: Trump (a loose cannon of broadly neocon instinct) was never going to “bring US jobs home” when globalised capital-labour relations, and Wall St need to maximise profits, dictate that wealth … Read More »
My previous post, Critical thinking on US electoral fraud, generated interesting and informed below the line commentary. The thrust of that post was to question the basis on which so many liberals show visceral resistance, at times bordering on hysteria, … Read More »
In my last years as an academic a good deal was being written about, and careers founded on, an alleged need to ‘teach critical thinking skills’ to undergraduates. Me, I was coming to a view of critical thinking as not … Read More »
The real difference between Byron and Shelley is this: those who understand and love them rejoice that Byron died at thirty-six, because had he lived he’d have become a reactionary bourgeois; they grieve that Shelley died at twenty-nine, because he … Read More »
On November 6, while the Guardian titillated a doubtless boosted readership with the prospect of the current White House incumbent barricading himself in (“spoiler alert”, Caitlin advised, “he won’t”) Anti War.com was more usefully offering profiles of the three frontrunners … Read More »
It’s official. The latest of America’s grotesque parodies of democracy has delivered its verdict. Three Strikes Joe, who championed the war on Iraq with its million slain and its descent into chaos and terror amid the asset grabs of wholesale … Read More »
Mostly I’m angry about other crimes but sometimes, sometimes, the dignity and innocence of those we share this earth with, and the insanity of the white man, move me to tears.
This from the Black Agenda Report, November 4: Democratic propagandists and “frightened” leftists are desperate. They tell supporters and the public the republic will not survive another term of Donald Trump. They point to his despicable, racist descriptions of undocumented … Read More »
Over the fields and far away from a pot-holed lane winding south from Sawley to Kegworth, the Soar is on the last leg of its northward journey to the Trent. On its east bank stand the cooling towers of Ratcliffe … Read More »
It’s been said of my writings that I tell people what to think. In truth I don’t have the brass neck, but I do tell people what I think – with an ongoing invitation for them to show me where … Read More »