Mostly the weather has been wet, exceedingly so, but today was sparkling bright. With Jasper I took these in Attenborough this afternoon. The band of duckweed on the far edge of this sheet of water marks the normal course of … Read More »
November the fifth at seven pm, outside the Home Office on Marsham Street, SW1. Speakers including Vivienne Westwood, Stop the War’s John Rees and Julian’s father, John Shipton, were backed by rapsters MIA and Lowkey as hundreds of supporters gathered … Read More »
Most of my coverage of the Syria travesty, this for instance, seeks to show the big picture. But big pictures are made up of small details, like the alleged chemical attack at Douma. Details of this sort are vital to … Read More »
Waters gets better and better. Here he is on RT: eloquent, informed, passionate. Not just on the shameful – and in its Orwellian implications terrifying – treatment of a man whose ‘crime’ was to tell us the truth about the … Read More »
Just an hour ago in fact. He’s going stir crazy – had final jab four days ago but vet says another six till he can be allowed to pace the streets and parks and wild places. Jasper’s in Sheffield with … Read More »
Ben Norton writes in the Grayzone a few days ago: Hundreds of American soldiers are remaining in Syria to occupy its oil reserves and block the Syrian government from revenues needed for reconstruction. Trump said openly, “We want to keep … Read More »
this post also features on offguardian Aptly enough – one hundred and two years to the month since those ‘Ten Days that Shook the World’ – all three (four if you’re on the ball) of my read recommends today are … Read More »
If you took the time to read my recent post, the Kurds in Syria, I urge that you do the same with Jonathan Cook’s piece of four days ago. Lucid as ever, he takes, as did my post, the announced … Read More »