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The heartless idiocies of Team Starmer

24 Jan

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 »

economics and money, science and reason, uk 9 Comments

Saturday’s Palestine rally in London

20 Jan

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 »

middle east, uk 4 Comments

The economic illiteracy of Rachel Reeves

18 Jan

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 »

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Galloway on Assad. Damo on Starmer

4 Jan

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 »

middle east, uk 3 Comments

ICC throws both UK and EU a curve ball

22 Nov

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 »

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Babies, bathwater and Rachel Reeves

16 Nov

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’m overwhelmed with shame”

23 Oct

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Starmer’s loathsome “2019” jibe

25 Sep

“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 »

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The West’s poltroons and Quislings

15 Sep

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 »

europe, uk, ukraine war, usa 5 Comments

Britain is broken, but how to fix it?

24 Aug

On July 1, days before 34% of Britain’s electorate handed Keir Starmer’s Labour its ‘landslide’ victory, Channel 4 gave its 9 pm prime-time slot to a 47 minute screening of Skint: The Truth About Britain’s Broken Economy.  Presented by Tim … Read More »

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  • Come you masters of war …
  • Talking WW3 Blues. (Somebody has to.)
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  • Gaza and the student protests
  • Ukraine: will our leaders’ folly kill us all?
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  • The US-Israel game plan for Gaza
  • The new McCarthyism cries “anti-Semite”
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  • Aaron who?
  • Maria Zhakarova: FREE JULIAN ASSANGE!
  • Russia and the art of war
  • Jeffrey Sachs meets Piers Morgan
  • Ukraine – how will history judge?
  • Atrocity in Moscow, HEP strikes in Ukraine
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  • So Evil Putin rigged the vote. Really?
  • Let the Sunshine in!
  • Did Hamas weaponise sexual violence?
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  • Putin’s Navalnicide: at last, a motive!
  • Ukraine – a Company man speaks
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  • FREE JULIAN ASSANGE!!!
  • Quito blinks on bananas …
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  • Conspiracy and coincidence theories
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  • Gaza: it’s all in paragraph 15, stupid!
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