Owen Jones is there to mop up leftwing Labour supporters to persuade them the Guardian is their friend, as he did even while it was helping destroy Jeremy Corbyn. Jonathan Freedland is there to reassure liberal Jews the Guardian is … Read More »
Parliament Square, September 6 2025 I’m gonna start a new series – Even the Guardian – in the spirit of my August 29 post, Even the Guardian thinks Yvette’s a liar. Regulars know my opinion of the Guardian. On matters, including … Read More »
Three peak events last week were the murder of Charlie Kirk … more US-Israeli criminality in the Middle East, this time not against Iran but, after the genocidal ethno-state itself, Washington’s closest regional ‘ally’ … and the handful of Russian … Read More »
Candle-lit vigil in Utah, where Kirk was fatally shot Yesterday evening, in a twenty-five minute dialogue at the Duran on the Charlie Kirk shooting, Alexander Mercouris made a few excellent (and a few laboured) points. He also quoted the WB … Read More »
No one should doubt the power of the lobby but, and this is the point, no one should doubt either that this power derives in the last analysis from the alignment, for reasons given here and here, of US deep state agendas with … Read More »
On my way back from Saturday’s Palestine Action mass defiance in London’s Parliament Square – very well covered by Crispin Flintoff, btw – I was struck by the noravirus and have been in bed ever since. Hence my radio silence, … Read More »
The West is still in denial. The Guardian – Sep 3, 2025 – says China is grandstanding * Let me offer the distilled wisdom of my fifteen years of hard reflection on where the world is at: The West is … Read More »
Having spoken but rarely and long ago on this part of the world, I can’t with confidence say why US warships are headed for Venezuela now, rather than last week .. month .. year or next week .. month .. … Read More »