* * * In the first and more specific of two reminders – lest tears fog up our memory – Fire Brigades Union General Secretary Matt Wrack points out that: Many of the underlying issues at Grenfell were due to … Read More »
Today in Attenborough.
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Every once in a while I try to make sense of otherwise savvy people who refuse to see a reality staring us in the face: that on any number of metrics the USA is the world’s most lawless state. * … Read More »
Yesterday on Facebook, erstwhile Pink Floyd powerhouse Roger Waters, even better off stage than on, wrote this of the Douma lies. WHERE ARE THE HEADLINES? On April 7th 2018, Al Nusra/White Helmets, whoever, staged a chemical weapons attack in Douma, … Read More »
Monday. Walking the Erewash Canal from Long Eaton to Trentlock, I snapped a moorhen and remembered I need to go back to Nottingham to see the moorchicks spied from my canoe nine days ago, on the Beeston Cut opposite the … Read More »
For a characteristically witty piece on “President Bolton”, see Caitlin Johnstone in fine form with a post four days ago and viewable here. But this Daily Beast offering from thirteen months ago, on the man’s appointment to National Security Advisor, … Read More »
At a certain stage in our passage through life’s rich tapestry, we get to realise a few things. One, everybody’s nuts. (Most of us can more or less feign sanity till we get home to our nearest and so called … Read More »
This from Peter Hitchens in yesterday’s Mail. Strange news from the OPCW in the Hague A dissenting group of scientists and others recently published online what they say is a report prepared by an employee of the Organisation for the … Read More »
Nagasaki bound. “Fat Man” on its way, August 1945 Three years ago, Global Research showed that interests backing Trident also finance Russia’s nuclear programme. This news, relayed a few months later by the Canary, should have caused a storm in … Read More »