I’m a huge fan of Caitlin Johnstone’s wittily penetrative and deceptively simple ways of showing how insane a world run by and for a tiny elite truly is, when what she is up against are systems of opinion manufacture controlled … Read More »
Outside Buckingham Palace yesterday I’ve never been one for claiming psychic powers but try this for size. Early afternoon yesterday the thought occurred, courtesy one of those random associative chains the mind’s humdrum chatter churns out 24/7, that Prince Philip … Read More »
Does it look like he’s listening? A minder bars Audrey White from the target of her scorn. I awoke this morning wondering whether to write about Nancy Pelosi’s insanely and arrogantly provocative Taiwan visit – and its numerous parallels with … Read More »
. Schadenfreude can be delightful, but the pleasures do tend to be short-lived. Few likely to read this will shed any tears over the serial liar for now still in residence at London’s 10 Downing St. But while his latest … Read More »
One measure of the deep sleep in which the vast majority of Westerners are immersed is that the decision on Friday by British Home Secretary Priti Patel – to allow the extradition of Julian Assange to the near certainty of … Read More »
One nation is circling the planet with hundreds of military bases, continually working to destroy any nation who disobeys it, and has spent the 21st century killing people by the millions. It isn’t Russia. It isn’t China. You have to … Read More »
Sir Keir Starmer (left) and his predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn British newspaper, The Independent, May 3: Starmer warned expelling Nato-sceptic MPs could spark Labour civil war The Labour leader hinted he could take action against MPs questioning the party’s ‘unshakeable support’ … Read More »
Forty years ago Michael Foot was enjoying, if that’s the word, his brief tenure as leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition. The Argentinian leader, General Leopoldo Galtieri, had ordered the occupation of the Falkland or, if you prefer, Malvina Islands … Read More »
That I write so little about the domestic affairs of my own country is down to lack of time, not of interest or concern. Sometimes I yearn to shed political writing altogether. And do what? Why, augment my pictorial essays … Read More »
Let me pick out five happenings. “Partygate” be damned. The Economist beats a path to 10 Downing Street for the sagacities of that great statesman, Boris – more-lives-than-a-cat – Johnson, on a European response to the Russian bear. With Britain … Read More »