Category Archives: uk
Richard Murphy on neoliberal academia
It is undoubtedly true that our universities are in crisis. But that crisis is not just financial. It is existential. They have helped create the conditions for their own decline by swallowing the neoliberal promise of efficiency, competition and ‘value … Read More »
To Kill a War Machine – update
Last week, I reported on the move by Yvvette Cooper – UK Home Secretary, expenses cheat and wife to rottweiler for Israel Ed Balls – to designate non violent Palestine Action a terrorist organisation, making membership or support punishable by up to fourteen … Read More »
The British in Palestine, 1936-1939
Smart people know not all Jews are Zionists. Smart people who do their homework know not all Zionists are Jews – The dangerous idiocy of Piers Morgan In February this year, an Israeli investigative webzine, The Hottest Place in Hell, reported … Read More »
“We were the Nazis, they the Jews”
As support for Palestine at Glastonbury ’25 is met with an explosion of media hypocrisy, phony indignation and straight-ahead hysteria, here’s a voice I cite sparingly. There’s a rich tradition of Christians Against Corruption. My city has its Deacon Dave; … Read More »
The genocide-haters of Glastonbury
Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, aka Mo Chara of Irish rappers, Kneecap, at Glastonbury last week Here’s a piece of advice, its provenance investigated here, traditionally handed down at night school for cub reporters but now adopted with relish by such … Read More »
The “Jew-haters” of Glastonbury
I host this meritless screed partly for entertainment value, funny if you’re in a good mood, but mainly as one of a myriad ways in which Israeli hasbara, whether from inside the settler state or without, becomes its own caricature. As … Read More »
Everybody should see this film!
TO KILL A WAR MACHINE is screening Monday June 30th and on various July dates in towns as far removed as Derry (itself no stranger to Occupation) and Penzance, Bristol, Newcastle, London and divers UK venues between and beyond. Since … Read More »
So Palestine Action are terrorists?
Yvette Cooper in the House of Commons, 2018, sporting a rosette marking the centenary of (some) women getting the vote Four days ago Yvette Cooper – UK Home Secretary, expenses cheat and wife to rottweiler for Israel Ed Balls – announced … Read More »
Gaza. French is “sorry”, Dylan “too clever”
After a few days off duty I’d intended to return today with a post on US backed Islamist terror in Syria. It’ll have to wait, two things having distracted me. One being the Dawn French apology for an Instagram video … Read More »