When this Duran piece by Jon Kurpis reached my inbox this morning, I was motivated to do what I seldom do nowadays. I wrote a comment below the line on the Duran substack: A worthy read, but missing from this … Read More »
Life and death go on of course, my post yesterday notwithstanding. I’ll be posting less, I guess, and leveraging time and effort by recycling third party output I deem worth airing. Here are two such, both pertaining to the US-Israeli … Read More »
In reply to a comment by Dave Hansell, a systems engineer by trade, on my previous post I wrote: … despite our shared moans about Naked Capitalism’s leading light, Yves Smith, her daily reports on the Iran war have been … Read More »
Day after tomorrow I’ll be drawing down the shutters at steel city house, handing Tebay over to a kennel in Sheffield’s beautiful Mayfield Valley, and setting off with Jackie to Bristol. There we’ll overnight with the younger of my two … Read More »
I have my differences, not least on the nature and causes of the Ukraine war, with Richard – tax specialist, MMT (modern monetary theory) champion, Quaker, birdwatcher, former professor at a Sheffield University I too once taught at, denizen of … Read More »
* Throughout human history the world’s most dominant powers have suffered from a profound pathological aversion: they cannot bear to admit they are empires. The tragedy of America’s imperial experiment is that denial of its true nature has made its … Read More »
… sometimes. * Don’t take my word for it. Check out social media, where the rumour mill is rife with speculation as to how the most enthusiastic warmonger since Genghis Khan – though unlike the Senator for South Carolina, Genghis … Read More »
July 9 2026 If you were underwhelmed by the ‘apology’ of Britain’s next prime minister, a man with form on ‘strategic ambiguity‘ in respect of Palestine, you’re not alone. Ditto if you aren’t buying the Guardian’s gushing claim of … Read More »
With the Memorandum of Understanding dead in the water, and the US and Iran once more trading blows at levels last seen in March, Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris offer their bird’s eye take on the implications. For a while … Read More »
Sunday, July 5, 2026 But the state we’re in goes beyond the pros and cons of any individual politician. No mainstream party in the UK or Europe at large shows the slightest sign of acknowledging, as prelude to serious conversation, … Read More »