It’s good to be back in Sheffield. These pix were snapped today on my phone while we took in Burbage Rocks, Carl Wark and Higger Tor on a short clockwise constitutional, ten minutes from Steel City House. * * *
You may be sick of seeing the image below. I must have used it at least twenty times. Truth be told I’m sick of it myself but it’s just too damned useful … … it sheds too much instantaneous light … Read More »
In the interests of brevity, clarity and simplicity there’s much I left out of my list yesterday of provocations that Guardian writer Patrick Wintour, in his hair-raising warmongering on June 8, chose to ignore. I didn’t mention for instance that in … Read More »
This Saturday’s Guardian ran a Ukraine piece by Patrick Wintour. At over 3,000 words it had a broad enough canvas to set out vital context for a proxy war the US is losing and on that count desperate enough, with … Read More »
Has it occurred to [Economist editor] Simon Long that while [ATACMS aimed at Crimea] will up the death count, they won’t put a dent in the inevitability of Ukraine’s defeat [or] that Russia, besides taking out Ukraine’s entire power supply, … Read More »
Hen Mazzig: I do understand why this conflict raises a lot of emotions I think we need to focus on reality and I understand especially when you are Jewish or Palestinian or Arab why you feel so connected to this … Read More »
Palestine demonstrator, Sheffield, UK So Hollywood marketing “guru” Ashlee Margolis, founder of the The A List agency, has ordered her staff to “hit pause” on working with any celebrity attacking Israel. This includes all who accuse it of genocide in … Read More »
I am very concerned that we do not have cooler heads in Washington right now. Either on the Democrat side, in the person of the feeble, demented Joe Biden or his equally feckless, inept Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, or … Read More »
Yesterday evening I wrote an eleventh hour footnote to the post, The military genius of The Economist, I’d written that morning: On the inevitability of Ukraine’s defeat, notwithstanding [The Economist’s] courageous call for Russia to be fought to the last … Read More »
This constant escalation can lead to serious consequences. If these serious consequences occur in Europe, how will the US behave, bearing in mind our parity in the field of strategic weapons? Hard to say. Do they want global conflict? Vladimir … Read More »