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 »
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 »
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.
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 »
Take Australia … *
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 »
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 »
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 »