Two yawning chasms separate me, politically, from most of my fellows. One, they haven’t yet grasped – though the evidence is out there in spades: more visible than at any point in my seventy years on the planet – that … Read More »
Have you seen Sleepy Joe’s appointee, to the minted-for-her post of “Disinformation Czar”, do karaoke? Nina Jankowicz makes Sarah Palin look a beacon of sanity and reason. Here she is in 2015, taking the mike – and, given her subsequent … Read More »
On May 1st, Democrat leaning site, The Hill – said to be “the largest independent political news site in the United States” and “ranked second among all US news sites for political readership” – posted this. Kinzinger introduces AUMF to … Read More »
I’ve set out in many posts my reasons and evidence for saying a proxy war in Ukraine is being driven by US determination to retain control of a dollarised world in the face of Eurasia rising. Yes, I’ve been left … Read More »
I recently had an email from a reader wanting to know how I could possibly see any good in George Monbiot. My attitude to this columnist is overall negative – see my post, what’s the point of George Monbiot? – … Read More »
Most of my writings on identity politics have been in the context either of imperialism’s wars, or the vitriolically divisive claim that sex is not binary but a spectrum – hence a question more of subjective identity than empirically observable … Read More »
Forty years ago Michael Foot was enjoying, if that’s the word, his brief tenure as leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition. The Argentinian leader, General Leopoldo Galtieri, had ordered the occupation of the Falkland or, if you prefer, Malvina Islands … Read More »
When will it sink in? While the brainwashed-whose-name-is-legion dance to that Zelenski good, Putin baad number we move closer to the unthinkable than at any time, Cuba ’62 not excepted, since Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Here’s former UK diplomat Alastair Crooke, … Read More »
The hyperbolic language westerners use to describe fairly normal modern warfare in Ukraine suggests they’ve invested exactly zero thought in what their own governments have been doing in the middle east for the last two decades. It’s like, yes, killing, … Read More »
The Steel City Household is leaving today, the steelmobile packed with camping, photography and canoeing kit – plus two canines and two humanoids – to head north for the border and Easter it out near Hawick in the Southern Uplands … Read More »