Before steel city scribblings was even a gleam in my eye, I’d mused for years on the dialectic played out by power and morality. But in those incubational days between the criminality of Iraq and Afghanistan, and that of Libya … Read More »
On Wednesday I walked Big Moor with an old friend. No one was getting wed but a vastness of myrtle green and bracken brown spread before us, flecked with heather still purple under skies of rich brooding intensity, the air … Read More »
The Guardian, October 2 2025 Google Maps tells me Heaton Park Shul at Crumpsall, on the northern edge of Manchester, is a sixty-five minute drive from steel city house. One that would take me, via the Snake Pass, along mile … Read More »
Some of us lost friends over our “extremist” opposition to the dirty war on Syria. I stand by my post of eight years ago: Monbiot, Syria and Universalism. Any of us can get it wrong. I’ve been spectacularly so at times … Read More »
Roll over Sun Tsu, and tell von Clausewitz the news! Jeffrey Sachs yesterday, in a twenty-two minute dialogue with Danny Haiphong, excoriates Team Trump and Europe’s quislings in equal measure. Starting with this week’s flip-flop on Ukraine – “not tactics … Read More »
Israeli prime minister and fugitive from justice, Benjamin Netanyahu, with Zionist forefather Theodor Herzl in the background Israel was set up from the get-go – on the back of violent ethnic cleansing and given a specious legitimacy by the crimes … Read More »
Meanwhile the West backs its genocidal beachhead in the Middle East and US warships threaten Venezuela on bogus pretext. At the very least Washington is doubling down on the Monroe Doctrine in the face of rising Chinese and Russian commercial presence … Read More »
Owen Jones is there to mop up leftwing Labour supporters to persuade them the Guardian is their friend, as he did even while it was helping destroy Jeremy Corbyn. Jonathan Freedland is there to reassure liberal Jews the Guardian is … Read More »
Parliament Square, September 6 2025 I’m gonna start a new series – Even the Guardian – in the spirit of my August 29 post, Even the Guardian thinks Yvette’s a liar. Regulars know my opinion of the Guardian. On matters, including … Read More »
Three peak events last week were the murder of Charlie Kirk … more US-Israeli criminality in the Middle East, this time not against Iran but, after the genocidal ethno-state itself, Washington’s closest regional ‘ally’ … and the handful of Russian … Read More »