I start with Owen Jones. In ten minutes he moves from the disastrous findings for Keir Starmer and his Labour Government of last week’s Ipsos, YouGov and other pollsters, to the unnamed new party of Jeremy Corbyn and Zara Sultana. … Read More »
Terrorism in red paint? Palestine Action leaves a calling card at RAF Brize Norton Last Sunday, August 17, while I strolled the shores of Derwentwater, UK home secretary Yvette Cooper took to The Observer with an opinion piece. Here it … Read More »
The Devil’s greatest victory, believers tell us, lies in his convincing our secularist age he doesn’t exist. The same goes for the Israel Lobby. Even to speak of it as a thing invites McCarthyesque charges of wild-eyed conspiracism by antisemitic … Read More »
See footnote Yvette Cooper has continually lied about Palestine Action in a panicked attempt to defend the proscription of a direct action protest group which is opposing a Genocide in which Cooper’s government is deeply complicit. Craig Murray, below Just over a … Read More »
Introducing the Richard Murphy piece replicated below, Naked Capitalism’s Conor Gallagher says this: According to the Kiel Institute, the UK has shovelled 19.266 billion euros into the corrupt hole of death that is Ukraine, which is always worth remembering when elites … Read More »
Am I overthinking things? Wouldn’t be the first time. I’ve heard Owen Jones, George Galloway, Kernow Damo – even Andrew Neil FFS! – voice disgust at the arrest of a blind disabled man. My step-daughter, a criminal law solicitor, phoned … Read More »
Like a stopped clock right twice a day, even a Guardian much criticised on this site – here and here for instance – managed a decent cartoon by Ella Barton on the mass arrests at London’s Parliament Square on Saturday … Read More »
law-abiding britons are arrested en masse by the police of a state actively and variously complicit in the world’s first live-streamed genocide. their crime? the newly created one of holding placards expressing support for a non violent direct action group … Read More »
August 4, 2025 Four days ago, in a footnote to Palestine Action set to challenge UK ban, I noted that Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori … … had won her high court bid for leave to appeal the UK home … Read More »
No coherent alternative to the economically and morally catastrophic consequences of the ‘austerity’ embraced in all but name by Starmer and his incompetent Chancellor is possible without decisively defeating the notion that “balancing the books” – i.e. repaying a creditor … Read More »