About as much use as …
23
Jul
… a chocolate spanner. Caisse à outils, spied last month through a plate glass window in Perigueux, France.
Author Archives: steel city scribe
What if?
22
Jul
What an OIL TANKER!
22
Jul
Iran: what next?
20
Jul
this post also features in offguardian With so many brown skinned men, women and children in the Middle East maimed, bereaved or having their lives terminated by the high tech and highly profitable products of America’s military industrial complex, it’s … Read More »
Tom Watson: follow the money
19
Jul
Since becoming Labour Deputy Leader in September 2015, Tom has had just shy of £97,000 from two Israel lobbyists, Trevor Chinn and David Garrard, and from Labour Friends of Israel. On Facebook I came across the list below, taken from … Read More »
On the water, man and dog
19
Jul
In a one seat canoe, you’re skipper and crew, just messing about on the river. Josh Macrae My kayak lives in the garage. Deflated, rolled and strapped to a folding trolley of the kind used by porters to move sacks … Read More »
Bob Dylan – one killer of a poet
17
Jul
When people tell me they can’t stand Dylan, I get it. Really I do. He’s not everyone’s cup of tea. (I know women – white, black, of diverse age – who love Dylan, man and music. None qualify as twenty-four … Read More »
Muhammad nailed it
15
Jul
BBC Hasbara Cooked
15
Jul
[ezcol_1half]Perhaps you gave, as I did, that Panorama special – yes, that one – a miss. Or maybe, a glutton for torture, you actually watched it – in which case you’ll be needing professional help. Here, with his habitually unruffled … Read More »
On crying wolf and confirmation bias
13
Jul
I’ve written about this before: circulation on social media of information which is false – as in this piece on gun control and homophobia – or incorrectly understood – as in this on Syria – to prop up views I … Read More »