Eyup, I’ll tell thee a story. In 1988 I was doing a Ph.D on computing tools for writers. I was also teaching a few hours a week in the computing department at a Sheffield City Polytechnic soon to gain university … Read More »
The government can’t say who’s committing fraud or how much it really costs – if they could, they’d be catching the actual fraudsters instead of building a surveillance system to monitor everyone’s bank accounts. They’re using a mathematical model based … Read More »
I’m kicking myself. It’s months now since I was at a Palestine demonstration, either in London or the steel city. Why wasn’t I at this one? Fortunately, the always reliable Jonathan Cook was. The former Guardian journalist and blogger from … Read More »
Accountant and tax specialist Richard Murphy, writing today: Rachel Reeves did an interview with Nick Robinson of the BBC this week as part of a new series entitled Political Thinking. The audio is available here. As Nick Robinson made clear, that … Read More »
In a footnote to the previous post I wrote: More on Sykes-Picot here. For why I doubt that a third way, neither empire nor Ba’athism, was ever on the cards, see Syria – how Trotskyism got it so wrong. As … Read More »
Much ado about nothing? Yes it is – given that a UK visit by either the genocidal state’s leader or the defence minister he sacked is about as imminent as seeing Joe Biden on Mastermind. We may safely assume that … Read More »
There are those I feature approvingly within narrowly defined parameters and despite views on other matters I find dangerously misguided or even abhorrent. Take Owen Jones. His humanist failure to see the dirty war on Syria for what it truly … Read More »
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“I got principles and if you don’t like ’em, well, I got others” – Keir Starmer Groucho Marx “Israel continues to pummel Lebanon, proving itself the only country in the world that can bomb and invade all its neighbors at … Read More »
Calling out the Quislings are, left to right, Dimitri Lascaris, Michael Hudson, Radhika Desai It being Sunday I feel empowered – lovely word that, but where was it for most of my 70+ spins round the sun? – to offer … Read More »