Tariq Ali was bang on the nail with this term. Does it ever occur to those who deem themselves balanced of view, and well informed – while pitying the poor saps in such as China and Russia where they have, you … Read More »
Sunday’s Observer editorial targets a week of chaos for President Trump, egregious even by the standards of his beleaguered administration. Sunk by John McCain on Obamacare, and with open civil war in his team’s upper echelons – robustly lampooned, below, … Read More »
Two outstanding Guardian articles caught my eye this week. One was Sarah Boseley’s feature yesterday: tobacco industry’s dirty war for the African market. Part of the Graun’s week long focus on the world’s richest and most lethal drug cartel, Boseley’s … Read More »
This post also features on off-guardian This morning, just after eight, BBC Radio 4’s John Humphrys interviewed an American ‘expert’ – didn’t catch the name – on the first meeting, today, of Trump and Putin. In the time between my … Read More »
Especially moderation. Guardian below-the-line commentator zerohoursuni this week had three of five comments on a single article removed. (Comments on a Guardian piece routinely exceed five. Not by word or deed has the Guardian ever signalled that it rations BTL … Read More »
Jonathan Cook is a former Guardian columnist, author of several books on Palestine and, like me, disgusted by media coverage of the war on Syria. In an April post – French Intelligence, Monbiot’s silliness – I call him ‘the most … Read More »
On Saturday, President Elect Trump made a call to the Taiwanese Premier, breaching protocols in place since Nixon’s 1972 visit to Beijing. FB and Twitter have been abuzz with accusations of ineptitude or – the Donald allegedly having business designs on … Read More »
Syria .. Putin .. Brexit .. Corbyn .. climate change .. Trump. What have they in common? All are issues on which most of us have opinions we imagine we arrived at ourselves. But didn’t Asch and Milgram show how … Read More »
One aspect of the torpedoing of Boris by Gove and his missis, Sarah Vine, is this line in her email to hubby: Crucially, the membership will not have the necessary reassurance to back Boris, neither will Dacre/Murdoch, who instinctively dislike … Read More »