To cheers from the crowd outside the Royal Courts of So-Called, a silver Mercedes driver honks furiously … … but she’s the exception. There’s no shortage of horn play but it’s mostly from work vehicles. A 76 toots as it … Read More »
Some conspiracy theories are accurate. Click on the balloon. I was discussing next week’s extradition hearing with a friend. “Let’s hope the judges show some backbone and block it”, she said. In reply I cited serial violations of due process … Read More »
In 2021, Blair told ITV News, “vaccination is your route to liberty.” He called unvaccinated people “idiots” and urged the UK government to introduce vaccine passes. What he didn’t say was that his Tony Blair Institute for Global Change had … Read More »
Media yesterday announced a new report that the state pension age for Britons “may need” to rise to 71. I got mine – plus free bus travel in England, also under threat – at 65. The threshold now stands between … Read More »
An elderly man, Daily Telegraph under his arm and in winter coat topped by silk scarf – not a keffiyeh … … exits the store. With sardonic eye he takes in the gathering – we’re upwards of a hundred, I … Read More »
Twenty years ago, with Tony Blair still prime minister, I struck up a conversation with a stranger on a train. His eldest was about to enter infant school and he was bewildered by the choices – or as I would … Read More »
As Home Secretary, Suella Braverman called us hate marchers. The Israel lobby and its Western accomplices cry ‘anti-Semite’. So here’s a question. Would those taking to the streets in London and across the globe to protest genocide in Gaza today … Read More »
It’s not easy taking on a corporate body better funded and more powerful than yourself. In its small way my nine year battle with Sheffield Hallam University testifies to that. Many aspects of this week’s ITV offering, Mr Bates v … Read More »
Setting aside for now the dismal failure to check neoliberalism’s ongoing and profit-driven war on the natural environment, 2023 will surely be remembered for three things. First, as the year Russia shone a terawatt beam on the limits to US … Read More »
Staff at Sheffield Hallam have sent the following signed letter to university executives. Letter to the University Leadership Team At this moment, Israeli forces are engaged in an explicitly genocidal assault on the whole population of Gaza. The death toll … Read More »