I speak often of the burgeoning ranks of gamekeepers-turned poacher who mark, as I yet again switch metaphors, canaries in the coal mine of the west’s increasingly transparent decadence. One such is the former UK career diplomat, Alastair Crooke. His … Read More »
The virulent hatreds – not to mention rank bad salesmanship from a hasbara point of view – routinely spewed out by Israel’s far right are not the voice of that country as a whole. If they were, there’d have been … Read More »
The BBC say 300,000; Stop the War 800,000. Neither divulged their counting methodology but let’s split the difference and say over half a million marched on Saturday, November 11th, from Hyde Park down Park Lane and Grosvenor Place to Victoria, … Read More »
I’ll be in London on Saturday, inshallah, for a pro Palestinian demo which PM Rishi Sunak, Home Secretary Suella Braverman – who calls it a “hate march” – and other senior members of the UK government wanted Metropolitan Police Commissioner … Read More »
The USS Gerald Ford, the world’s largest warship ever, is now in the Eastern Mediterranean Should we banish XL Bullies, or just these canine killers’ owners? Pending part two of A way forward for Palestine? do recall the claim … Read More »
Those with even the slightest grasp of realpolitik saw in an instant the potential of the chain of events catalysed by the Hamas attacks of October 7 to go regional, and by that fact global. Provided we remember that it … Read More »
The Economist, November 2, 2023: Why Israel must fight on Israel’s bombardment of Gaza is taking a terrible toll. But unless Hamas’s power is broken, peace will remain out of reach Israeli forces are entering a hellscape of their own making. … Read More »
I can’t rule out the possibility that what a horrified world is witnessing in Gaza is precisely what those at the controls of the Israeli State wanted all along – stage one of a Final Solution, with Washington’s tacit blessing, … Read More »
There are moments in modern history when the mask of liberal and humanist democracy – its efficacy always premised on Westerners having little inkling of the price paid by the global south for our relative affluence and fading freedoms – … Read More »
“Let’s replace “Israelis” with “white South Africans”, who were also a settler-colonising people. Did the fall of apartheid require them to “get out”?” I opened my previous post with two quotes from Western Jews. One was Jonathan Freedland, a Guardian … Read More »