Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz in London last month A state whose economy is tanking while its leader prefers to strut the world stage, eyes fixed on (and $billions poured into) Project Ukraine as living standards plummet for his own citizens? … Read More »
* I urge a read of yesterday’s post, on Israel’s indefatigable capacity for bare-faced mendacity, by Caitlin Johnstone. Always delivering punchy but cogent reads, she has the literary adroitness of a Julie Burchill but without the moral insanity. I was … Read More »
Yesterday in the first twenty-five of seventy minutes with an interviewer unnamed and unknown to me, John Mearsheimer demonstrated both the astuteness and gravitas which keep me tuning in, and the limits to the “Offensive Realism” school of which the … Read More »
I start with Owen Jones. In ten minutes he moves from the disastrous findings for Keir Starmer and his Labour Government of last week’s Ipsos, YouGov and other pollsters, to the unnamed new party of Jeremy Corbyn and Zara Sultana. … Read More »
Terrorism in red paint? Palestine Action leaves a calling card at RAF Brize Norton Last Sunday, August 17, while I strolled the shores of Derwentwater, UK home secretary Yvette Cooper took to The Observer with an opinion piece. Here it … Read More »
I write while looking out over England’s largest lake, over whose glassy depths I glided most idyllically by canoe yesterday under a blazing sun. Mine eyes lifted unto the hills of Grasmere Common, I haven’t time to explain the divers … Read More »
The Devil’s greatest victory, believers tell us, lies in his convincing our secularist age he doesn’t exist. The same goes for the Israel Lobby. Even to speak of it as a thing invites McCarthyesque charges of wild-eyed conspiracism by antisemitic … Read More »
See footnote Yvette Cooper has continually lied about Palestine Action in a panicked attempt to defend the proscription of a direct action protest group which is opposing a Genocide in which Cooper’s government is deeply complicit. Craig Murray, below Just over a … Read More »
Introducing the Richard Murphy piece replicated below, Naked Capitalism’s Conor Gallagher says this: According to the Kiel Institute, the UK has shovelled 19.266 billion euros into the corrupt hole of death that is Ukraine, which is always worth remembering when elites … Read More »
Am I overthinking things? Wouldn’t be the first time. I’ve heard Owen Jones, George Galloway, Kernow Damo – even Andrew Neil FFS! – voice disgust at the arrest of a blind disabled man. My step-daughter, a criminal law solicitor, phoned … Read More »