Amazon complacent on fraud

3 Dec

What’s odd about this Amazon screen? The first two prices are unrealistically high given that the 7D Mark II sells for less, and Mark I prices have fallen below £1,000. But that’s not the issue here. The real joker is … Read More »

Thus Spake The Donald

3 Dec

I’ll zoom in on Trump as we get closer to January 20 and there’s more hard info as opposed to the rumours rife on social media, where hard core Clintonites still pour out their sorrow. But let’s take a quick … Read More »

Assad winning in Syria

30 Nov

The best thing – which given the two appalling candidates means the least worst thing – about Clinton’s defeat on November 8 is the receding threat of her No Fly Zone for Syria. Let’s spell this out. In its self … Read More »

Coping with opposition

19 Nov

Syria .. Putin .. Brexit .. Corbyn .. climate change .. Trump. What have they in common? All are issues on which most of us have opinions we imagine we arrived at ourselves. But didn’t Asch and Milgram show how … Read More »

Snappy Come-backs No: 373

18 Nov

A Grauniad below-the-line commenter the other day wanted to know if a fellow commenter, given to making abusive remarks in upper case, is SHOUTING ON PURPOSE. I only ask because a bloke I know reckons there’s a button you can … Read More »

Ten Old Songs

15 Nov

See also – Sincerely, L. Cohen Like many who owe a pleasure as unexpected as it was precious – seeing a septuagenarian Leonard Cohen in concert – to the former manager and lover who stole all his money to force … Read More »

A tsunami of outrage

15 Nov

A day and a half after we knew Trump had won, I emailed friends on both sides of the Atlantic with this heavily edited version of an open letter by Thomas Harrington, Professor of Hispanic Studies at Trinity College, Connecticut. … Read More »

Red Poppies in Moffat

13 Nov

Remembrance Day in Moffat. To paraphrase Putin’s comment on the Soviet Union: anyone who fails to see that Britain’s wars – from WW1 to Syria – have been created by and/or pursued in the interests of Profit has no understanding. … Read More »