Of course Sheffield couldn’t match the 150,000 who today marched from Speaker’s Corner to the Israeli Embassy in London. Still, several hundred of steel city’s finest turned out in solidarity with their Palestinian brothers and sisters outside the Town Hall, … Read More »
Yesterday Craig Murray – whistle blower, Scots nationalist, former rector of Dundee University, former UK Ambassador and much besides – was sentenced to eight months for contempt of court in his blog coverage of the collapsed trial of former SNP … Read More »
If Winston Churchill was right, and the price of freedom is indeed eternal vigilance, then we’re eff-you-sea-kayed. I’d put Kill the Bill attendance yesterday at Nottingham’s Forest Recreation Ground at 400 tops. Still, there was energy aplenty in those who … Read More »
Just two reads this month. (You’ll see why when you clock the word count of the first one.) This past year I’ve been in an uncomfortable place vis-a-vis CV-19. On the one hand I’m impressed by sceptics like Germany’s Professor … Read More »
The first-past-the-post system doesn’t work. Our only form of democracy left is protest. And now they’re trying to take that away. Deri Smith, aged 22. Let’s start with the Police, Crime Sentencing and Courts Bill. I referred to this a few … Read More »
It shouldn’t have needed the heavy-handed policing at Clapham Common last Saturday to get Labour – which had hitherto intended to abstain from the second reading of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts bill – to switch to voting against … Read More »
Will Met Commissioner Cressida Dick, Britain’s highest ranking police officer, fall on her sword? It seems likely, though she’s come out fighting amid widespread criticism from unusually high places of her force’s conduct at Clapham Common on Saturday night. More … Read More »
So the defamation escalates. First you call someone a ‘transphobe’. Then next time you can call them a ‘known transphobe.’ Next, when you’ve called them a known transphobe often enough, they become a ‘Notorious transphobe’. All without saying a single … Read More »
I ought to credit Ozzie blogger Caitlin Johnstone as an honorary steel city scribbler given how often I replicate her posts on this site, in full and with her blanket permission for “everyone but racists and fascists”. Today’s is a … Read More »
Jonathan Cook, today in CounterPunch: Assange Wins. The Cost: The Crushing of Press Freedom The unexpected decision by Judge Vanessa Baraitser to deny a US demand to extradite Julian Assange, foiling efforts to send him to a US super-max jail … Read More »