While genning up for a future post, on whether the pace of dollar decline is being overstated by worthy but wishful thinkers, I found this, posted today on the substack of Simplicius. To the backdrop of the three day G7 … Read More »
Great post from Caitlin today, skewering with her customary withering eloquence no fewer than five industrial scale whoppers: There’s been a massive upsurge in anti-Semitism within “the Left” since October 7. Liberal politicians promoting this “upsurge” are genuinely alarmed, and … Read More »
Reuters headlines of June 10 (above) and June 9 Alexander Mercouris is too well informed on Ukraine and Middle East, and too lucidly nuanced in his reasoning, to be ignored on so trifling a ground as his fondness for the … Read More »
It’s good to be back in Sheffield. These pix were snapped today on my phone while we took in Burbage Rocks, Carl Wark and Higger Tor on a short clockwise constitutional, ten minutes from Steel City House. * * *
You may be sick of seeing the image below. I must have used it at least twenty times. Truth be told I’m sick of it myself but it’s just too damned useful … … it sheds too much instantaneous light … Read More »
In the interests of brevity, clarity and simplicity there’s much I left out of my list yesterday of provocations that Guardian writer Patrick Wintour, in his hair-raising warmongering on June 8, chose to ignore. I didn’t mention for instance that in … Read More »
This Saturday’s Guardian ran a Ukraine piece by Patrick Wintour. At over 3,000 words it had a broad enough canvas to set out vital context for a proxy war the US is losing and on that count desperate enough, with … Read More »
Has it occurred to [Economist editor] Simon Long that while [ATACMS aimed at Crimea] will up the death count, they won’t put a dent in the inevitability of Ukraine’s defeat [or] that Russia, besides taking out Ukraine’s entire power supply, … Read More »
Hen Mazzig: I do understand why this conflict raises a lot of emotions I think we need to focus on reality and I understand especially when you are Jewish or Palestinian or Arab why you feel so connected to this … Read More »
Palestine demonstrator, Sheffield, UK So Hollywood marketing “guru” Ashlee Margolis, founder of the The A List agency, has ordered her staff to “hit pause” on working with any celebrity attacking Israel. This includes all who accuse it of genocide in … Read More »