Three years ago, almost to the day, I first saw the bluebells at Strelley. Yesterday I revisited with my friend Heather, she who on that prior occasion introduced me to this woodland haven bounded west, north and south by farmland, … Read More »
That I despise Trump and all he stands for no more means I prefer his predecessors … … than the fact that I despise the venal warmonger who ran against him in 2016 … … meant I preferred Trump. Either … Read More »
Pro-Palestine activists took to the streets of central Athens on Friday after a firebomb attack on an art gallery known for showing anti-Zionist slogans. Demonstrators gathered in Monastiraki, otherwise known as “Little Tel Aviv,” to condemn “Zionist terrorism” and “genocide” … Read More »
John Mearsheimer is prime architect of offensive realism theory, describing relations between “great powers” as driven by the rational desire to achieve regional hegemony in an anarchic international system. I don’t buy all of it, and see greater explanatory power … Read More »
Sir Keir Starmer (right) with Lord Peter Mandelson Jonathan Cook yesterday on Britain’s most despised prime minister in living memory – and just look at the recent competition for that spot! Liz (‘the lettuce‘) Truss … Boris (‘Partygate‘) Johnson But … Read More »
Even non participants observed in silence as we marched today for Palestine. Traffic at road junctions, held back by stewards on bikes, let us pass; soundless save for the single beat, every seven seconds, of our drummers. Half way down … Read More »
In a highly confrontational address to the UN Security Council, Russian Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia accused the European Union and foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas of deliberately escalating the Ukraine conflict and preparing for a major war with Moscow. Dismissing … Read More »
In response to my post of March 21 – Why are America’s rulers allowing this? – American writer and scholar Ed Curtin emailed to say: Trump is not an anomaly except with his mouth, which is planned. He is carrying … Read More »
I know the feeling, Dr Shola. Unlike Tucker I do “hate Israel” just as I hated that other apartheid ethno-settler colony, South Africa. Unlike Tucker I don’t believe in the last analysis that Israel, under Bibi or any other leader, … Read More »
* Liberals temperamentally disinclined to distinguish social conservativism from creeping fascism will welcome the end of Viktor Orbán’s sixteen years as Hungary’s prime minister. So too will those who fondly believe the EU a benign and democratic entity. Me, I side … Read More »