Category Archives: politics
Sarcasm on social media
I’ve been guilty of this myself so know what I’m talking about here. *
Caitlin on the rape of Iraq
Caitlin Johnstone today on the Rogue State’s refusal to leave: If the initial invasion of Iraq was a violent sexual assault by a stranger in a dark alley, this one is more like an abusive husband raping his wife then … Read More »
If you have the oil …
Rogue State!
Antisemitism and IQ revisited
I opened my December Reads post last month with an Andrew Joyce piece in a far right website whose sentiments repel me. When replicated on OffGuardian my remarks drew a fair amount of flak. Not for giving a platform to … Read More »
My December reads
this post also features in offguardian And so this is Christmas, what have you done? The old year is over, a new one just begun. Well, almost. I can’t alas, offer much in the bliss department this year. I leave … Read More »
Truth to power: the real deal
It’s a tough question, I know, but think hard on which of the two candidates below best qualifies as speaker of truth to power. The first, currently being talked up as the next Labour leader by the very media which … Read More »
No – it won’t be Jess Phillips!
Dorset Eye two days ago: Labour Party members: Hold the line. Jess Phillips cannot get elected with the current membership. What the Blairites and media seem to forget is WE ALREADY KNOW THE MEDIA IS FULL OF SHIT when it … Read More »
More Hitchens on Douma
Yesterday in his Mail on Sunday column, Peter Hitchens wrote: The global chemical weapons watchdog is facing renewed questions after fresh details emerged about how it suppressed the findings of its own inspectors who raised serious doubts about an alleged poison … Read More »