Sir Keir Starmer (right) with Lord Peter Mandelson Jonathan Cook yesterday on Britain’s most despised prime minister in living memory – and just look at the recent competition for that spot! Liz (‘the lettuce‘) Truss … Boris (‘Partygate‘) Johnson But … Read More »
Even the non participants on Sheffield’s Devonshire Street, Fargate, Church Street and West Street observed in silence as we marched today for Palestine. Traffic at junctions let us pass; soundless save for the single beat, every seven seconds, of our … Read More »
I know the feeling, Dr Shola. Unlike Tucker I do “hate Israel” just as I hated that other apartheid ethno-settler colony, South Africa. Unlike Tucker I don’t believe in the last analysis that Israel, under Bibi or any other leader, … Read More »
Easter Monday. By now you, me and the cat next door have heard what POTUS No. 47 saw fit to post yesterday on his laughably named Truth Social. For her part former Trumpian stalwart Marjorie Taylor Greene – “Christian, Mother, … Read More »
Financial Times, March 30 2026 Before I get to this story, a few remarks. The US is not a democracy in any meaningful sense, but a corporate oligarchy posing with diminishing plausibility as one. Said Chris Hedges in 2022: US … Read More »
Over time I tend to accrue miscellaneous half-writes: drafts awaiting a suitable moment, works in progress eclipsed by more urgent matters, else forays I abandon as not taking me any place I want to go. Often they wind up in … Read More »
Here in the UK a plumber by the name of Hannah Spencer confirmed what many already knew; a century of Labour-Conservative duopoly of government is over. Standing as a Green at the Gorton-Denton byelection two days ago, she overturned a … Read More »
Europe’s political elites, captured and groomed decades ago by Washington, have been allotted the task of continuing to bog down Russia in Ukraine to free up the US to pursue its overarching goal of encircling China. As their citizens face … Read More »
The Guardian yesterday: Judges have humiliated ministers by insisting Palestine Action should not be banned under anti-terrorism laws in a ruling that has left thousands of its alleged supporters in legal limbo. The high court said on Friday the government’s … Read More »
Like I said early in my post the same day – Has the US empire hit zugzwang? – a shoulder injury ruled out my being at Saturday’s Palestine march in London. I know my absence was noted because on Sunday … Read More »