Two outstanding Guardian articles caught my eye this week. One was Sarah Boseley’s feature yesterday: tobacco industry’s dirty war for the African market. Part of the Graun’s week long focus on the world’s richest and most lethal drug cartel, Boseley’s … Read More »
Like you, I’m appalled by the news from Manchester. My views on its causes are no secret. Now is not the time to restate them. * Why don’t I shut up about Syria? My views aren’t popular and I’m not … Read More »
“Ba’athism promotes a unified Arab state through the leadership of a vanguard party over a revolutionary government and the creation of one-party states, and rejects political pluralism … it is a secular ideology that supports socialist economics to a varying degree, and … Read More »
This post also features on offGuardian – a much needed antidote to ‘liberal’ media. It’s also been translated into French so je vous remercie, mes amis inconnus. (Retrospective, January 2019. I rarely re-read old posts but was curious here. I know … Read More »