The venality, corruption and cruelties of power, when these become our daily focus, can harden the heart. The risk of cynicism is ever present, especially for we who come bearing no solutions other than the non negotiable precursor that we … Read More »
Seen today in BTL commentary on a Naked Capitalism piece: Gestopholies, November 3, 2025 at 7:36 pm LOL. Stalin certainly did revive industrial policy in Russia, but he did it in a very flawed way. In order for no one … Read More »
Two items in my inbox caught my eye this morning. One, by Caitlin Johnstone, refers to a piece two days ago in Israel’s liberal Haaretz, under the self explanatory title, Israeli Settlers Filmed Torturing Lambs in a Palestinian-owned Pen in … Read More »
Levers Water is in the English Lake District, at the head of the Coppermines Valley above Coniston village. Originally a natural tarn, it was enlarged by a dam in 1717 to provide water and power to the nearby mines. Today, … Read More »
Today my inbox alerted me to 2500 cogently penned words on the holy grail of AGI, artificial general intelligence, as pursued by the West. Having posted twice on AI in January, using the example of DeepSeek to contrast the approaches … Read More »
Five years ago I watched the Richie Mehta drama, Delhi Crime, and this week binged on it again at Netflix, devouring the dozen episodes of series 1 (with series 2 just as good) three or four at a time. I’ve … Read More »
Clickbait trivia, fake news and faux outrage: every day until we demand truth: In The Country of the Blind, HG Wells showed that the proverbial one-eyed man, far from being crowned king, is likely to be deemed insane. Westerners who … 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 »
My six month old grandson, Louis, yesterday morning … … moments before he settled down … … to the Hey Bear Sensory Disco Fruit Party, which enthrals him. Maybe we should all of us give politics a swerve, chill out … Read More »
I couldn’t agree more. * * *