With Joan Ryan the eighth MP to join the Labour breakaway group, and to cite ‘antisemitism’ as a prime reason, the ever reliable Jonathan Cook says: Corbyn, it should be noted, is the first leader of a major British party … Read More »
_ A Facebook friend posted a link to this open letter to Luciana Berger, one of the seven (now eight and set to rise) MPs leaving the Labour Party this week. It’s from Shaun Lawson, a Jewish supporter of Jeremy … Read More »
Says Momentum today: [Chris] Leslie and Chuka [Umunna] have been undermining the leadership from the very moment Jeremy was elected. They are attacking Labour for “weaken[ing] our national security”, supporting “states hostile to our country” and being “hostile to businesses … Read More »
Deaconess: For all who are victims of trafficking and enforced prostitution … Choir singing: Lord hear our prayer. Deaconess: For all who are victims of violence, racism and murder … Choir singing: Lord hear our prayer. * I’ve had race … Read More »
An admirer of Pepe Escobar’s well informed writings, I was keen to read his Information Clearing House (ICH) piece yesterday. He begins. Cold War 2.0 has hit South America with a bang – pitting the US and expected minions against … Read More »
Tomorrow at crack of d I head for New Orleans so this is my last post for a while on Venezuela. Or anything else cept alligator shots from the bayou, live jazz from Frenchmen Street and dead footage from St … Read More »
In a footnote to my post of January 27 I wrote: Fence-sitting and having it both ways cascade through liberal media. As Guardian and Observer are vital to Chomsky’s “sophisticated system of propaganda”, so too are house leftists like Owen … Read More »
My writing cost me a friend this week. It happens. Not often, but it always hurts. Then I remind myself that the world does not throw itself at the feet of those who write as I do. I pick myself … Read More »