The Telegraph yesterday, August 27: Sir Alexander McCall Smith has criticised the “censoring” of children’s books by authors such as Roald Dahl and Enid Blyton, arguing that they presented a “sanitised world view”. McCall Smith, who is best known for … Read More »
This shipped into my inbox yesterday afternoon from Progressive International. It needs little by way of introduction. We can easily feel powerless in the face of “our” governments’ backing of genocide in Gaza but a movement of active and morally … Read More »
Think I’ll give those “six essential books” a swerve. Like the Guardian, The Economist can come up with good stuff on matters which don’t threaten the core concerns of the oligarchs who rule the West but, on matters which do, … Read More »
The man who saved the world: Soviet Lieutenant-Colonel Stanislav Petrov That we have not yet destroyed the world with nuclear weapons is a miracle of good luck that cannot last forever. On at least twenty occasions we have nearly had … Read More »
Roll over, Nick Park! Here’s the Mail Online yesterday: Other British media ran with the same. If you’re not bored already, click on the screenshots to see how each covered it. Heartwarming to see such foul racism garnering the righteous … Read More »
Thanks once again to reader Dave Hansell for this. I’ve already posted twice on last week’s “tepid” Labour win under Keir Starmer on fewer votes than in 2019 and 2017 under Jeremy Corbyn. In Britain’s rulers anoint Starmer’s Labour I … Read More »
Sometimes I miss steps in my own arguments, making them non-sequiturial. One example was in my last post but one. Speaking of Starmer’s election victory on July 4th I wrote of: … the wider context as set out in many … Read More »
Julian Assange is free. The criminals whose blood-soaked deeds he exposed and who had him locked up for years, many in isolation at one of Britain’s harshest jails, require one last penance of him. In a grotesque but for now … Read More »
The Starbucks on York’s Coney Street looks out over that pedestrian walkway to take in the ancient church of St Martin le Grand opposite. Beyond that runs the River Ouse. Should you be passing by, have a butcher’s. A row … Read More »
Yesterday morning – shortly after posting Talking WW3 Blues. (Somebody has to) – I had an email from my virtual friend and fellow Dylan admirer, writer Edward Curtin. Hi Phil, We are in big trouble now. Pax, Ed Indeed. An oligarchic … Read More »