Time and hindsight can bring the kind of clarity which, if we take care to check our shifting assumptions in light of new evidence duly reflected on, can transcend the merely self-serving. Looking back on well over a decade of … Read More »
Time passes slowly when the days are uneventful and for the most part lived in the horizontal. It seems far longer than twenty days since I wrote my last substantive post, a photo-record of the Palestine March in Central London … Read More »
A huge thank you for the many expressions of support and well wishing from across the world following my 15 night sentence at Sheffield’s Northern General, whose staff at every level I cannot praise too highly. I was released on … Read More »
I’m in hospital with pneumonia. Love and solidarity. Phil
At these events I seldom ask permission to take a picture, but for this lady made an exception. Given din level and fleeting window of opportunity – the one unconducive to verbal exchange, the other making speed of the essence … Read More »
And the people bowed and prayed, to the neon Gods they’d made. Paul Simon, The Sound of Silence A commodity appears a trivial thing easily understood but its analysis shows that it is in reality a queer thing, abounding in … Read More »
Here’s another blistering sermon from the pen of the Presbyterian minister and Pulitzer prize winner, Chris Hedges. In my previous post, Washington cuckoos its allies, I wrote: In the case of the aggression on Iran, my efforts are focused less … Read More »
Cuckooing is when criminals take over someone’s home to use for dealing drugs, storing weapons, sex work or other illegal activities. They target vulnerable people: someone with a drug or alcohol problem, money troubles, a mental health issue or disability, … Read More »
Taken today, looking north towards the steel city from Meersbrook Park … … while yesterday I rode the escalator to the first floor of Atkinsons, a recent refurbishment of whose gents offers an eye-catching floor to ceiling photo-tryptich of the … Read More »
Lebanon’s rivers are more than lifelines. They lie at the heart of a long-standing struggle shaped by external ambition. From the Litani to the Wazzani, Israeli efforts to dominate regional water show that control over Lebanon’s water has been pursued … Read More »