Think me an extremist on what is being done to Syria in our name? Hear the former Republican Senator for Virginia, Dick Black, a fortnight ago at the Schiller Institute. I’m posting in full here (transcript below) because the facts-are-sacred … Read More »
By middle of March a pair of magpies were nest building in a cherry tree at foot of our garden, two metres from a three-storey house whose east facing end wall overlooks the back of ours. That wall shelters the … Read More »
I say, I say: why did the magpie help the hedgehog across the road? No, it’s not a joke. It happened for real, was caught on a dashcam and the footage uploaded to YouTube. So why did the magpie peck … Read More »
If Winston Churchill was right, and the price of freedom is indeed eternal vigilance, then we’re eff-you-sea-kayed. I’d put Kill the Bill attendance yesterday at Nottingham’s Forest Recreation Ground at 400 tops. Still, there was energy aplenty in those who … Read More »
Just two reads this month. (You’ll see why when you clock the word count of the first one.) This past year I’ve been in an uncomfortable place vis-a-vis CV-19. On the one hand I’m impressed by sceptics like Germany’s Professor … Read More »
Steve McCurry’s spellbinding image: eyes of piercing blue, windows on a rich and complex history The services performed for empire narratives by identity politics and political correctness are not to be underestimated. In liberal circles, to defend Julian Assange against … Read More »
The first-past-the-post system doesn’t work. Our only form of democracy left is protest. And now they’re trying to take that away. Deri Smith, aged 22. Let’s start with the Police, Crime Sentencing and Courts Bill. I referred to this a few … Read More »
It shouldn’t have needed the heavy-handed policing at Clapham Common last Saturday to get Labour – which had hitherto intended to abstain from the second reading of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts bill – to switch to voting against … Read More »
Will Met Commissioner Cressida Dick, Britain’s highest ranking police officer, fall on her sword? It seems likely, though she’s come out fighting amid widespread criticism from unusually high places of her force’s conduct at Clapham Common on Saturday night. More … Read More »
Today on Al-Jazeera: Police in London clashed with mourners and protesters on Saturday after more than 1,000 people gathered for a vigil for a 33-year-old woman killed by a male police officer, hours after he appeared in court. Sarah Everard’s … Read More »