Time passes slowly when the days are uneventful and for the most part lived in the horizontal. It seems far longer than twenty days since I wrote my last substantive post, a photo-record of the Palestine March in Central London … Read More »
At these events I seldom ask permission to take a picture, but for this lady made an exception. Given din level and fleeting window of opportunity – the one unconducive to verbal exchange, the other making speed of the essence … Read More »
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 non participants observed in silence as we marched today for Palestine. Traffic at road junctions, held back by stewards on bikes, let us pass; soundless save for the single beat, every seven seconds, of our drummers. Half way down … 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 »