“I am ashamed of Israel”
7
Nov
Ten second guide to Owen Paterson
6
Nov
My integrity, which I hold very dear, has been repeatedly and publicly questioned. I am totally innocent of what I have been accused of and I acted at all times in the interests of public health and safety. Owen Paterson … Read More »
Human rights weaponised
5
Nov
Well intentioned but not so well informed people often assert the universality of human rights in ways that unwittingly serve the agendas of power. How could they not? Our awareness of (a) where human rights violations are said to take … Read More »
Another US academic on Taiwan
4
Nov
Begun by Obama’s “pivot to Asia”, the wall to wall demonising of China by Washington and its junior partners, amped up by our not so independent media, continues under POTUS 46. But there are articulate and informed voices of sharp … Read More »
What a Bezos!
4
Nov
Spotted just now on Facebook, posted by one Tom Helmesley. This is Jeff. Jeff made his billions by undercutting local shops and shipping stuff halfway round the world. Over the summer, Jeff flew on his private spacecraft so he can … Read More »
Exchanges with my Guernsey freeholder
3
Nov
My house, bought in 1990, is leasehold at an annual ground rent of £3.26. The freeholder I knew as Mrs Anston. Every few years I’d write to a PO Box to ask how much I owed, get a handwritten reply, … Read More »
Julian: a year and a day on
3
Nov
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The myth of independent media
31
Oct
Sunday Times owner Rupert Murdoch sits on the board of Genie Energy: conducting oil drilling in Syria’s Golan Heights, contrary to international law on exploiting an occupied territory’s resources. See this post One of the most important of capitalism’s ideological … Read More »
Turkey arrests Syrian banana eaters
30
Oct
Two days ago in the centrist Middle East observer, Al-Monitor … Syrians to be deported for eating bananas ‘provocatively’ in Turkey As tensions soar between Turks and their country’s 4 million refugees, a viral trend of young Syrians posting videos … Read More »