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Category Archives: general
Guest post: a reply to Alexis Fitzgerald
27
May
Two weeks ago an essay appeared on the Lockdown Sceptics site by one Alexis Fitzgerald. Headed, The Left-Wing Case Against Lockdown, it began thus: I consider myself to be left-wing on virtually every political topic: I am a socially-liberal social … Read More »
My May reads
23
May
this post also features on off-guardian As I had last month, I’d wanted in my three reads this month to start addressing the alarming bellicosity of Washington in respect of several nations, but most frighteningly China. For those with some … Read More »
Two aspects of Covid-19
30
Mar
I enjoyed yesterday’s trip down memory lane. Judging on number of visits, comments below the line and private emails sent in response, so did others. Though a scribbler all my life, I only really found my stride fifteen years ago … Read More »
Julian Assange Global Protest
16
Mar
On Monday, February 25, day one of Julian Assange’s extradition hearing was held at Belmarsh Magistrates Court. Read about the days that followed in Craig Murray’s excellent court reports. Two days earlier, on Saturday, February 22, a rally was held … Read More »
Identity Politics
12
Mar
This from a woman who describes herself as ‘exited from prostitution, highly critical of the practice of buying sex and increasingly alienated within feminist circles’: Trans activists [seek] to convince you that because a small minority have ambiguous genitalia or … Read More »
Old Age Pensions
10
Mar
Next year my partner Jackie will turn sixty. For most of her working life that had been the age of eligibility for a state pension the OECD says is the lowest in the developed world. But as you may have … Read More »
My February reads
29
Feb
Reshaping global food production in the image of corporate imperialism … a brief and bloody history of capitalism in its lead nation … the pillorying of the world’s most famous whistle-blower … Welcome to my reads of the month. * … Read More »
A word or two on the Social Contract
22
Feb
In other circumstances John Smith’s unwavering class analysis of the linked themes of Brexit and Labour’s December defeat would have been in my January reads post. In the event, by the time it came to my attention I’d already decided … Read More »
Plato on Assange
16
Feb