It’s not easy taking on a corporate body better funded and more powerful than yourself. In its small way my nine year battle with Sheffield Hallam University testifies to that. Many aspects of this week’s ITV offering, Mr Bates v … Read More »
In the normal run of things this hallowed site wouldn’t give time of day to Murdoch’s British outlet, TalkTV. Forget Piers Morgan. He’s wisdom and courtesy incarnate at the side of fellow presenters of Nadine Dorries and Jeremy Kyle stripe. … Read More »
Judas kiss? Benjamin Netanyahu greets Joe Biden at Ben Gurion airport, October 18 In a previous post – Hamas attacks: another 9/11? – I voiced my openness to the possibility of said attacks being a false flag. In a subsequent … Read More »
Lowkey addresses a Free Julian Assange demo in London, October 2021 I’ve seen and snapped Lowkey twice at rallies for Julian Assange but, not being a rap fan, paid little heed beyond noting with approval that, as with Roger Waters … Read More »
The USS Gerald Ford, the world’s largest warship ever, is now in the Eastern Mediterranean Should we banish XL Bullies, or just these canine killers’ owners? Pending part two of A way forward for Palestine? do recall the claim … Read More »
The Economist, November 2, 2023: Why Israel must fight on Israel’s bombardment of Gaza is taking a terrible toll. But unless Hamas’s power is broken, peace will remain out of reach Israeli forces are entering a hellscape of their own making. … Read More »
“Let’s replace “Israelis” with “white South Africans”, who were also a settler-colonising people. Did the fall of apartheid require them to “get out”?” I opened my previous post with two quotes from Western Jews. One was Jonathan Freedland, a Guardian … Read More »
Who is responsible for that mass-murderous strike on the Al Ahli Baptist Hospital? It’s not the most important question arising from the genocide in Gaza, I grant you. That ‘honour’ goes to whether and how soon this tiny hell on … Read More »
Joe Biden (who dislikes and is loathed by Netanyahu) may be buying it … The UK’s Independent, October 19 … I mean, what other option would a US President have, even if fully compos mentis? But for now at least, … Read More »
Today’s Observer features an opinion piece by British novelist and journalist, Howard Jacobson. Under the header – Victim-blaming is a crime to progressives. Except when it comes to … Jews – he opens with his grief for fellow Jews killed … Read More »