Author Archives: steel city scribe

The Pink Hand Gang

28 Nov

Distinguished by that trade mark numero uno hairdo – and by insistence on pink marigolds as washing up accessories – a member of the feared Pink Hands is caught in a reflective moment.

Cook on Corbyn and “antisemitism”

27 Nov

Today in the View From Nazareth, award winning journalist Jonathan Cook writes: Corbyn’s democratic socialism is the first serious attempt by Labour since the Thatcher years to try to reverse the enormous and relentless economic gains made by Britain’s corporate … Read More »

Thus spake the Chief Rabbi

26 Nov

this post also features in offguardian Today BBC World at One featured responses to the Chief Rabbi’s extraordinary attack. Zero evidence offered. Silence on the relative extent of antisemitic views within the two main parties, and vis a vis the … Read More »

Is my team ploughing?

24 Nov

I don’t suppose this an original thought – what’s so great about originality anyway? – but today it occurred to me that melancholia is a vital part of the human experience, perhaps of Life itself. Those muddy fields by the … Read More »