I’m still working on my Syria post. Meanwhile here’s Simplicius, writing today. Since his cavalier approach to layout is always confusing, I’ve tidied it up – itself an editorial decision when ‘form’ cannot be neatly distinguished from ‘content’ – and … Read More »
Asked what kept blowing his nineteen fifties government off course from its manifesto pledges, British PM Harold Macmillan famously replied, “events, dear boy, events”. I know the feeling. Itching to pen a post on US backed Islamist terror in Syria, … Read More »
After a few days off duty I’d intended to return today with a post on US backed Islamist terror in Syria. It’ll have to wait, two things having distracted me. One being the Dawn French apology for an Instagram video … Read More »
Smart people know not all Jews are Zionists. Smart people who do their homework know too that not all Zionists are Jews. Keep this in mind if, like me, you’ve been dazedly picking yourself off the floor courtesy Piers Morgan’s … 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 »
A return to America’s proxy war on Russia in Ukraine, in which it seeks to “freeze” the conflict at Europe’s expense – i.e. have the latter’s deeply unpopular comprador leaders cut welfare even further to ramp up “defence” spending in … 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 »
Caitlin Johnstone’s post today is penned with her customary directness under the header, It’s A Complete Lie To Say Gaza Can Have Peace If Hamas Surrenders. After backing this claim with statements from the Netanyahu and Trump administrations to show … Read More »
This from Ken Klippenstein – US journalist, former colleague of Naomi Klein, Mehdi Hasan and Glenn Greenwald at the Intercept, and prolific issuer of Freedom of Information Requests to US federal and state governments – following yesterday’s fatal shootings at … Read More »
Rapper Lowkey at a rally for the woke-abandoned Julian Assange, October 2021 This follow up to Gaza – hats off to Gary Lineker features George Galloway’s Mother of All Talk Shows, and the guest he introduces as: a professor of the … Read More »