Idiocracy! Our profit-driven infantilisation
27
Aug
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Evil ayatollahs bomb Oz synagogues!
27
Aug
The Guardian yesterday, August 26 * If you’re wondering why on earth Iran would want to direct antisemitic attacks on synagogues down under – or whatever term is used for the antipodes in Western Asia – you’re not the only … Read More »
Nessun Starmer
26
Aug
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Right Alexander: let’s talk about Germany
26
Aug
Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz in London last month A state whose economy is tanking while its leader prefers to strut the world stage, eyes fixed on (and $billions poured into) Project Ukraine as living standards plummet for his own citizens? … Read More »
Georgia on my mind
25
Aug
* I urge a read of yesterday’s post, on Israel’s indefatigable capacity for bare-faced mendacity, by Caitlin Johnstone. Always delivering punchy but cogent reads, she has the literary adroitness of a Julie Burchill but without the moral insanity. I was … Read More »
Meditations on a sinking ship
24
Aug
Yesterday in the first twenty-five of seventy minutes with an interviewer unnamed and unknown to me, John Mearsheimer demonstrated both the astuteness and gravitas which keep me tuning in, and the limits to the “Offensive Realism” school of which the … Read More »
Labour: fearmongering party to genocide
23
Aug
I start with Owen Jones. In ten minutes he moves from the disastrous findings for Keir Starmer and his Labour Government of last week’s Ipsos, YouGov and other pollsters, to the unnamed new party of Jeremy Corbyn and Zara Sultana. … Read More »
Yvette Cooper takes to The Observer
21
Aug
Terrorism in red paint? Palestine Action leaves a calling card at RAF Brize Norton Last Sunday, August 17, while I strolled the shores of Derwentwater, UK home secretary Yvette Cooper took to The Observer with an opinion piece. Here it … Read More »
Four nights in Lakeland
19
Aug
Looking due north from my canoe on Windermere Thursday: 23:04. I pull into the small triangular car park at Ambleside Pier, next to the Youth Hostel. It’s free but only at this hour can I be sure of a space. … Read More »
Half-Baked Alaska
16
Aug
I write while looking out over England’s largest lake, over whose glassy depths I glided most idyllically by canoe yesterday under a blazing sun. Mine eyes lifted unto the hills of Grasmere Common, I haven’t time to explain the divers … Read More »