London, July 2025 When normal people get a ceasefire agreement they think “Good, this means we can finally stop fighting and killing”. When Israelis get one they go, “This means we have to hurry up and kill as many people … Read More »
Yesterday, two years after Israel launched its pre-announced genocide … … five UK factories were targeted by Palestine Solidarity Campaign as making components for the F-35s used by Israel in its mass murderous ethnic cleansing of Gaza. I’d planned to … Read More »
Before steel city scribblings was even a gleam in my eye, I’d mused for years on the dialectic played out by power and morality. But in those incubational days between the criminality of Iraq and Afghanistan, and that of Libya … Read More »
On Wednesday I walked Big Moor with an old friend. No one was getting wed but a vastness of myrtle green and bracken brown spread before us, flecked with heather still purple under skies of rich brooding intensity, the air … Read More »
The Guardian, October 2 2025 Google Maps tells me Heaton Park Shul at Crumpsall, on the northern edge of Manchester, is a sixty-five minute drive from steel city house. One that would take me, via the Snake Pass, along mile … Read More »
From the perspective of Britain’s establishment, plus those of America and Israel, Sir Keir’s work is done. Aided by the Israel Lobby – plus levels of character assassination which saw not only the UK’s gutter media at their worst but … Read More »
I concluded Roads to WW3 Part 4: ‘Only connect’ with an observation applicable to all posts in this series: none of earth’s plethora of flash points and weeping sores should be be viewed in isolation. Not Ukraine, not the cancer … Read More »
Part 1 opened with the September 10 murder of Charlie Kirk, a Christian Conservative hitherto unknown to me but with a large following in the USA. The crime led Johns Hopkins historian Todd Stoermer to find commonality between America’s post … Read More »
Some of us lost friends over our “extremist” opposition to the dirty war on Syria. I stand by my post of eight years ago: Monbiot, Syria and Universalism. Any of us can get it wrong. I’ve been spectacularly so at times … Read More »
Roll over Sun Tsu, and tell von Clausewitz the news! Jeffrey Sachs yesterday, in a twenty-two minute dialogue with Danny Haiphong, excoriates Team Trump and Europe’s quislings in equal measure. Starting with this week’s flip-flop on Ukraine – “not tactics … Read More »