The year now ending saw a record number of elections in the West. In not one of them did the decline of Western supremacy feature. Like the proverbial elephant, it was addressed by neither America’s duopoly nor Britain’s. The same … Read More »
A few months ago a reader asked a rhetorical question. Why, she demanded, should we trust those who can’t call a genocide a genocide on anything at all? I’ve since used it a number of times, most recently when someone … Read More »
There are those I feature approvingly within narrowly defined parameters and despite views on other matters I find dangerously misguided or even abhorrent. Take Owen Jones. His humanist failure to see the dirty war on Syria for what it truly … Read More »
On July 1, days before 34% of Britain’s electorate handed Keir Starmer’s Labour its ‘landslide’ victory, Channel 4 gave its 9 pm prime-time slot to a 47 minute screening of Skint: The Truth About Britain’s Broken Economy. Presented by Tim … Read More »
Think I’ll give those “six essential books” a swerve. Like the Guardian, The Economist can come up with good stuff on matters which don’t threaten the core concerns of the oligarchs who rule the West but, on matters which do, … Read More »
Thanks once again to reader Dave Hansell for this. I’ve already posted twice on last week’s “tepid” Labour win under Keir Starmer on fewer votes than in 2019 and 2017 under Jeremy Corbyn. In Britain’s rulers anoint Starmer’s Labour I … Read More »
Two posts ago I placed the departure of Victoria Nuland as acting Undersecretary of State in the context of a decades old rift in Washington, between Russia hawks and China hawks. I said her going signalled the strategic defeat of … Read More »
Yesterday I visited my friend and steel city reader, Dave Hansell, a denizen of Stocksbridge so almost a Sheffielder. Dave, who knows the Labour Party inside out, has a thousand tales to tell of dirty tricks and flat out incompetence … Read More »
Those who control both the levers of state and (ultimately) overarching narratives have magic powers to stand cause and effect on its head. They can, for instance, goad a nuclear armed state for decades with lies, insults and broken promises … Read More »