I opened my December Reads post last month with an Andrew Joyce piece in a far right website whose sentiments repel me. When replicated on OffGuardian my remarks drew a fair amount of flak. Not for giving a platform to … Read More »
this post also features in offguardian And so this is Christmas, what have you done? The old year is over, a new one just begun. Well, almost. I can’t alas, offer much in the bliss department this year. I leave … Read More »
It’s a tough question, I know, but think hard on which of the two candidates below best qualifies as speaker of truth to power. The first, currently being talked up as the next Labour leader by the very media which … Read More »
Dorset Eye two days ago: Labour Party members: Hold the line. Jess Phillips cannot get elected with the current membership. What the Blairites and media seem to forget is WE ALREADY KNOW THE MEDIA IS FULL OF SHIT when it … Read More »
Yesterday in his Mail on Sunday column, Peter Hitchens wrote: The global chemical weapons watchdog is facing renewed questions after fresh details emerged about how it suppressed the findings of its own inspectors who raised serious doubts about an alleged poison … Read More »
JUNE 2017 – after Corbyn’s surprise upset for Theresa May’s election miscalculation, Guardian hacks and right wing Labour were desperately rowing back on their traducing of the man. Of the myriads of conditional, hedged and qualified, small hearted, partial and … Read More »
_ None of you need reminding what Santa stuffed in his sack this year for delivery down every chimney of this sceptred isle, twelve days early in a cloud of soot. But tory landslide or no, we Brits keep calm … Read More »
As a marxist I have my criticisms of the Corbyn phenomenon, and of the illusion that our ruling class would ever permit socialism via the parliamentary route. Even when calling for a Labour vote I’ve been clear about that. But … Read More »
Front page of today’s Daily Mail * Today on Jonathan Cook’s blog from Nazareth: Corbyn’s defeat has slain the left’s last illusion 13 December 2019 This was an election of two illusions. The first helped persuade much of the British … Read More »
… all you can do is do what you must. You do what you must do, and you do it well. For every occasion there’s a line or two from the one and only Bob Dylan to meet the needs … Read More »