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 »
Though I’d rather he hadn’t apologised … Before I get to the principled sports presenter and former England, Spurs and Barcelona striker axed by the BBC on Sunday, ostensibly for failing to spot an antisemitic emoji; in fact for calling … Read More »
Millions of people … … swarming like flies round Well maybe not millions. Middle East Eye says half a million. All bound for Downing Street … … to say there ain’t no both-cidesing a genoside. With the same kit she’s … Read More »
Me neither, but nineteen months on we’re still protesting Today I awoke on a London street that doesn’t have resident-only parking, having passed the night in the van. I’m about to have breakfast and coffee before taking a bus to … Read More »
‘Lord of the Flies’ by Dwayne Booth, aka Mr Fish On October 9 2023, two days after Hamas broke out of what a former chief of Israel’s National Security Council had nineteen years earlier called the world’s largest concentration camp, … Read More »