MANY OF US ASK OURSELVES, “WHAT WOULD I DO IF I WAS ALIVE DURING SLAVERY? OR THE JIM CROW SOUTH? OR APARTHEID? WHAT WOULD I DO IF MY COUNTRY WAS COMMITTING GENOCIDE?” THE ANSWER IS, YOU’RE DOING IT. RIGHT NOW Aaron … Read More »
Having overnighted in Bedford on that beautifully tree lined boulevard by the Great Ouse, I’m in Muswell Hill on Saturday just after eight for breakfast, coffee, then 134 to Mornington Crescent. From there it’s a stroll past Euston then down … Read More »
Yesterday, two years after Israel launched its pre-announced genocide … … five UK factories were targeted by Palestine Solidarity Campaign as making components for the F-35s used by Israel in its mass murderous ethnic cleansing of Gaza. I’d planned to … Read More »
On Wednesday I walked Big Moor with an old friend. No one was getting wed but a vastness of myrtle green and bracken brown spread before us, flecked with heather still purple under skies of rich brooding intensity, the air … Read More »
The Guardian, October 2 2025 Google Maps tells me Heaton Park Shul at Crumpsall, on the northern edge of Manchester, is a sixty-five minute drive from steel city house. One that would take me, via the Snake Pass, along mile … Read More »
From the perspective of Britain’s establishment, plus those of America and Israel, Sir Keir’s work is done. Aided by the Israel Lobby – plus levels of character assassination which saw not only the UK’s gutter media at their worst but … Read More »
Owen Jones is there to mop up leftwing Labour supporters to persuade them the Guardian is their friend, as he did even while it was helping destroy Jeremy Corbyn. Jonathan Freedland is there to reassure liberal Jews the Guardian is … Read More »
Parliament Square, September 6 2025 I’m gonna start a new series – Even the Guardian – in the spirit of my August 29 post, Even the Guardian thinks Yvette’s a liar. Regulars know my opinion of the Guardian. On matters, including … Read More »
No one should doubt the power of the lobby but, and this is the point, no one should doubt either that this power derives in the last analysis from the alignment, for reasons given here and here, of US deep state agendas with … Read More »
Having spoken but rarely and long ago on this part of the world, I can’t with confidence say why US warships are headed for Venezuela now, rather than last week .. month .. year or next week .. month .. … Read More »