My grandson, thirteen months old tomorrow, paid a visit. He likes me a lot; there are few men in his life so far. His beautiful face lights up when he sees me. His short pudgy arms reach out to be … Read More »
I had definitive proof a quarter century ago that identity politics’ obsession with terminology … … in just 200 years we’ve progressed all the way from expecting our leaders to slaughter brown-skinned peoples while saying racist things, to expecting our … Read More »
A friend writes that he was “an idiot” to have looked, in his disgust with the Extreme Centre, to Trump for any kind of solution. Yet millions who gained nothing from globalisation but precarity, inflation, and vanishing welfare infrastructure even … Read More »
I’d intended to return today to what, in the face of intense competition, is the most burning question of all – will the USS Abraham Lincoln and its carrier fleet really strike Iran? – but I’m not there yet. Here … Read More »
I don’t expect much from politicians, corporate tycoons, the presidents of prestigious universities, billionaire philanthropists, celebrities, royalty or oligarchs. They live in narcissistic and hedonistic bubbles that cater to their self-worship and moral depravity. But I do expect a lot … Read More »
The lawsuit itself doesn’t matter. The threat is the point. Deep of pocket, thin of skin and lacking the cognitive capacity to fight barbed humour on its own turf, the writ-happy Trumps are big on lawfare. The oval office tangerine … Read More »
A thought experiment – imagine detailed emails surfacing of a suicided blackmailer, pimp and all round pervert with ‘friends’ in the highest echelons of Western government having had close ties with – even procuring cyberweaponry for – Russia. Wouldn’t corporate … Read More »
Tomorrow, for the first time in over half a century – since Brezhnev and Nixon signed the first SALT agreement in 1972 – the brakes are completely off. Zero constraint on the expansion of nuclear superpower capacity to end life … Read More »
I still get emails from readers asking why they no longer receive alerts to steel city scribbles. My bad. Moons ago I decided to slim down my distribution list; a good idea badly implemented. I emailed all to say I’d … Read More »
As one of the forty protesting at the arms fair in Farnborough last night (pictures to follow if any good) I offer a few coffee thoughts as I break my journey north to steel city house … * Around the … Read More »