Mayflies – the Swiss option
Too much to ask, even of a best mate? Tony Curran and Martin Compston in Mayflies I should declare a personal interest. As one taken into care early in life – which is to say, as one who knows what it is … Read More »
Too much to ask, even of a best mate? Tony Curran and Martin Compston in Mayflies I should declare a personal interest. As one taken into care early in life – which is to say, as one who knows what it is … Read More »
Congolese soldiers in the forest, 2018, as the civil war spill-over from the Rwanda nightmare continues to haunt the DRC I’ve had liberals, believing themselves well informed by Economist, WSJ. Business Insider et al, patiently explain to me that Western … Read More »
I drew disapproving comment from liberal pals for refusing to dance in the streets at the US election results, November 2019. It’s depressing how not only those liberals – some of them dear to me but from whom, frankly, I … Read More »
… body without mind is brutish; mind without body… is a running away from our double being … Richard Hoggart, Introduction to the 2nd Edition, 1961 Lady Chatterley’s Lover is the last novel by English author D. H. Lawrence, first … Read More »
For a long time now the Canadian socialist Stephen Gowans – author of the excellent Israel: a beachhead for imperialism in the middle east – has been forcefully pushing his take on the Ukraine war that Russia and the US … Read More »
The text and image below are taken from the website of a Health Centre in the USA. Similar can be found in the UK’s NHS literature and, I’ve no doubt, across the Western World at large. Yes, language does matter … Read More »
Guardian, December 12, 2022 A wider definition of human rights obliges real-world assessments … to discriminate between greater and lesser abuse, to shun specious moral equivalence. Suppose every word our media say about Assad to be true: a huge stretch, … Read More »
If your understanding of world events doesn’t account for the easily quantifiable fact that the US is the most tyrannical regime on earth by a massive margin, nothing else in your understanding of world events will be fact-based. Caitlin Johnstone Eight … Read More »
In a Guardian piece yesterday, on a resurgent far right, Jonathan Freedland referred deridingly to “the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones”. I seldom agree with either man but do have an opinion on the way “conspiracy theorist” has become a stock … Read More »
From the centre-left Politico, December 4, 2022 * Why do the political elites of a nation or bloc of nations pursue courses of action they know will bring great harm to their citizens? Usually for at least two of the … Read More »