As noted seven years ago in the fab four: a personal view, my childhood was milestoned and made bearable by the Beatles. Not far behind, however, was the arrival in early adolescence of a Cambridge outfit which first caught my … Read More »
“In just 200 years we’ve progressed all the way from expecting our leaders to slaughter brown skinned people while saying racist things, to expecting our leaders to slaughter brown skinned people while condemning racism” – Caitlin Johnstone I opened a … Read More »
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… and I said nothing because I was not Palestine Action. I’m not political, you see.” Not political. Here’s 25 year old US airman Aaron Bushnell, on FB eighteen months ago … MANY OF US ASK OURSELVES, “WHAT WOULD I … Read More »
When I entered this world the USA had been a nuclear power for seven years, the Soviet Union for three. Britain would explode its first device the following month, France and China a few years later. Putting me fair and square … Read More »
See my post of six years ago on this Chris Hedges, yesterday: Trump, Epstein and the Deep State The Trump administration’s refusal to release the Epstein files and videos is done not only to protect Trump, but the ruling class. … Read More »
In this warped and twisted madhouse, we are trained to believe that “success” is making a lot of money, earning large amounts of esteem and adoration, having a certain body type, living in the right neighborhood in the right kind … Read More »
A drawing room in the west wing at Steel City House Concluding my review last year of a movie based on a Martin Amis novel about the Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig, who live with their family … Read More »
I’ve been using the word a lot these past five hundred and ninety-six days. Maybe you have too. But what does it mean? Here’s the UN General Assembly definition, coming into force on January 12 1951. Convention on the Prevention … Read More »
Commenting on the May 1st byelections in England – Could the two party Labour and Tory dominated political system be over? – Richard Murphy had this to say of rising support for Nigel Farage’s far right Reform Party: [Labour and … Read More »