His life in her hands
15
Feb
Category Archives: politics
Dear Labour Party, please expel me
12
Feb
Seen today on Facebook: a letter to the chair of the Labour Party from a Jewish member. NB footnotes are my additions, not Haim Bresheeth’s Dear Jennie Formby, I am writing you in the wake of recent events – the … Read More »
Ecocide: the Mullah Nasruddin speaks!
4
Feb
ONE MORNING in the summer of 2007 saw me in my daughter’s Edinburgh flat, taking in the wisdoms of Sir Jonathan Porritt as set out in an Independent piece on saving the environment. The plain truth, he was giving me … Read More »
£350m for the NHS – just saying
3
Feb
Cloaked Truth posted this on FB two hours ago … … causing one Mark Catlin to snatch gold in the much coveted FB Sophist of the Week Play-offs.
Book Review: Global Justice and Finance
30
Jan
this post also features on offguardian Paleontologists tell us homo sapiens sapiens has walked the earth for 140,000 years, 130,000 of them as hunter gatherers. Social animals, poorly equipped for solo survival, we foraged in small bands. Any surplus wealth … Read More »
The further a society drifts from truth …
29
Jan
Take Australia … *
Virgin Healthcare
28
Jan
My January Reads
22
Jan
The Roaring Twenties began with a bang. Whatever else the decade may bring, chronologers will look back on its opening fortnight as momentous. The tone was set by the January 3 hit on General Quassem Suleimani, followed five days later … Read More »
It’s a flying shame!
20
Jan
My December Reads included a piece by Jan Oberg, which I introduced as “capturing my sense of fear and outrage on what has been done to Syria in the risible name of humanitarianism”. He’s done it again with a FB … Read More »
Talking WW3 Blues
17
Jan
For me the scariest thing is not that the world is ruled by gangsters – a criminal elite with the US ruling class its top mafia family. It is that this particular family, and the lesser criminals who ride its … Read More »