I’m both delighted and embarrassed – more the former – to discover that my news earlier today of economist Michael Hudson’s death was greatly exaggerated. A comment by bevin, below, showed me that I had the wrong Michael Hudson; a political scientist … Read More »
Since I’m more at home calling out the lies on China, Russia and Syria – else laying bare those mechanisms which ensure we have no independent media, hence no true democracy – you might ask why I’m bothering with this … Read More »
This from the Sunday Times today, June 6. Fundraiser block after cash pours in for feminist charged with hate crime A fundraising appeal to pay the legal bills of a feminist charged with a hate crime over alleged homophobic and … Read More »
Thursday’s post – Belarus: the plot thickens – generated useful BTL exchanges. It may help if I sum up one strand of thought on the affair. A French journalist cited in my post, one Christelle Néant, floats the possibility of … Read More »
To keep focus on the double standards in play, I may well have conceded too much ground in yesterday’s post on the Belarus incident. Here’s how I opened: So “international opinion” castigates Belarus after this Sunday’s forced landing – without … Read More »
So “international opinion” castigates Belarus after this Sunday’s forced landing – without doubt a despicable and alarming act – of a plane carrying a wanted man, who was then arrested. As ever it fell to Russia to point out the … Read More »
He backs Modern Monetary Theory. I do not. He is a Quaker. I am not. Nevertheless, I’ve a soft spot for economist Richard Murphy. (I give my reasons in a short intro to his February post on risible accounting in … Read More »
Of course Sheffield couldn’t match the 150,000 who today marched from Speaker’s Corner to the Israeli Embassy in London. Still, several hundred of steel city’s finest turned out in solidarity with their Palestinian brothers and sisters outside the Town Hall, … Read More »
Yesterday Craig Murray – whistle blower, Scots nationalist, former rector of Dundee University, former UK Ambassador and much besides – was sentenced to eight months for contempt of court in his blog coverage of the collapsed trial of former SNP … Read More »
… in fact only a small proportion are but, as I argued six years ago in one of my increasingly rare non political posts – and little knowing how much extra weight this truth would be called on to shoulder … Read More »