UK daily, The Independent, yesterday: Keir Starmer hailed his “good relationship” with Donald Trump just hours before the US President’s special envoy slammed the PM’s Ukraine peace plan as “a posture and a pose”. Steve Witkoff said the Labour leader’s idea of a peacekeeping force made up … Read More »
It’s open season on Keir Starmer these days, and rightly so. If the man has a single redeeming feature it passed me by. He’s stupid, unprincipled, untruthful, arrogant in an odiously patrician way – yet oddly thin of skin – … Read More »
Female Mandarin I’d no chance with this next shot. A shutter speed of 1/500 seconds is way too slow for so tiny a bird flying so fast over so short a distance. As for my reflexes, they’re glacial. Still, I … Read More »
Commenting yesterday, September 16, on the second attempt in under two months on the life of Donald Trump, Caitlin Johnstone opined: Trump supporters are again touting it as evidence the Deep State is after their man, but I’m not buying … Read More »
Thanks to Alain, my friend across La Manche, for this. An unflamboyant, soberly impressive as always Russian Foreign Minister had this to say yesterday: Why do they now want to reform the World Trade Organisation? Because the principles it was … Read More »
Caitlin Johnstone today: I feel like we haven’t been talking enough about the fact that US government agencies were just caught intimately collaborating with massive online platforms to censor content in the name of regulating the “cognitive infrastructure” of society. … Read More »
Has the shock doctrine, set out in chilling detail in Naomi Klein’s classic of that name, well and truly caught up with the UK? Road tested in Chile by the CIA installed regime of that delightful chap, Augusto Pinochet – … Read More »
MintPress News yesterday: searing words from America and about America by Presbyterian Minister, Chris Hedges: The United States, as the near unanimous vote to provide nearly $40 billion in aid to Ukraine illustrates, is trapped in the death spiral of … Read More »