Alert, Friday June 13: what follows was posted late last night, before Israel’s strikes on Iran in the early hours of today. Yesterday Jeff Bezos’s WashPo ran this: June 12, 2025 Also yesterday, apropos US-Israeli verbal threats on Iran, I … Read More »
In my last post but one I wrote: The war with Iran sought by an Israel fast running out of options, ideas and indeed any discernible strategy (since ethnic cleansing and genocide do not a strategy make, nor does the … Read More »
Then there’s 9/11. Whatever the truth of that – and I ate my share of humble pie – it greenlit the War on Terror within the West to fast track a Patriot Act (and non US equivalents) while making free with such rule-of-law fundamentals … Read More »
I’m still working on my Syria post. Meanwhile here’s Simplicius, writing today. Since his cavalier approach to layout is always confusing, I’ve tidied it up – itself an editorial decision when ‘form’ cannot be neatly distinguished from ‘content’ – and … Read More »
Asked what kept blowing his nineteen fifties government off course from its manifesto pledges, British PM Harold Macmillan famously replied, “events, dear boy, events”. I know the feeling. Itching to pen a post on US backed Islamist terror in Syria, … Read More »
After a few days off duty I’d intended to return today with a post on US backed Islamist terror in Syria. It’ll have to wait, two things having distracted me. One being the Dawn French apology for an Instagram video … Read More »
Smart people know not all Jews are Zionists. Smart people who do their homework know too that not all Zionists are Jews. Keep this in mind if, like me, you’ve been dazedly picking yourself off the floor courtesy Piers Morgan’s … Read More »
When I entered this world the USA had been a nuclear power for seven years, the Soviet Union for three. Britain would explode its first device the following month off the north west coast of Australia; France and China a … Read More »
Sky News: June 1, 2025 Ukraine’s drone strikes at Russian airbases on Sunday will, says the comedian turned president whose term expired a year ago, “undoubtedly be for the history books”. As was the charge of the Light Brigade. A … Read More »
Guardian: June 1, 2025 – note the “military Keynesianism” spin Even with the eyewatering costs of Berlin’s slavish desire to please Washington at the expense of its own citizens factored in, the German economy is still in better shape than … Read More »