I don’t write much on the Labour Party or antisemitism and when I do it tends to be prompted by their having merged, zionist apologetics finding synergy with Doing For Jezza. Even then it’s usually been because that synergy folded … Read More »
Yesterday an Al-Monitor piece by Akiva Eldar contrasted Netanyahu’s success in getting Trump out of the Iranian nuclear deal, and to ‘recognise’ Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, with his failure to pull off the same in Europe. Eldar also finds time … Read More »
Jan Oberg, Director of Transnational Foundation (TFF) posted today. I’m to the left of this not-for-profit outfit but applaud its courageous stance on Syria. Indeed, the talented Mr Oberg first caught my eye last year with his images of Aleppo … Read More »
Part 3 opened with legislation designed both to outlaw social exclusion and effect a wider shift in how we view racism, sexism, homophobia, ageism and medical model takes on disability. On both the social engineering and punitive fronts I drew … Read More »
* Fings ain’t wot they used to be. I’m old enough to recall postcards in shop windows that graced Room To Let ads with a “no blacks or Irish” caveat. The day I was eighteen, Michaelmas 1970, I did my … Read More »
A full time lecturer for most of the nineties (and part time for most of the eighties) I returned to academia in the mid noughties, including a long run as part time lecturer at Sheffield Hallam, 2006 to 2014. My … Read More »
Unless you’re an employment law geek, or fighting your employer over a zero hours contract, I doubt you’ve given much thought to the landmark judgments of Wippel v Peek and Matthews v Kent & Medway. I have though. In fact … Read More »
Remember that spat last August between UK Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt and Professor Stephen Hawking? Stephen, sadly, is no longer with us but Jeremy, sadly, is. Thanks to Didi Cooper for the FB alert. I wrote last month, apropos the UK … Read More »
Two good pieces in two days on the media, apropos Douma. One came the other day from Caitlin Johnstone in the Medium The other is today’s Media Lens post – first of a two parter. It starts like this: UK … Read More »