Biden-Putin Summit: rhetoric & realpolitik
On June 15, a day before the Biden-Putin summit two days ago, Moon of Alabama considered two corporate media explanations for there being no joint news conference afterwards … the US did not want to elevate Putin, and/or Putin might … Read More »
When exposing a crime …
Pissing in morse code
In 1960, going on eight, I was a pupil at Ecclesfield Juniors, one of those stone built products of the big push on school building in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the boys’ playground stood the boys’ … Read More »
Maya Forstater wins on appeal!
The institutions that might have been expected to support women’s political organisation have been conspicuous by their absence or active hostility. Amnesty, the Fawcett Society, unions and political parties: all have ignored these women, or been positively hostile … … … Read More »
The late great Michael Hudson!!!
I’m both delighted and embarrassed – more the former – to discover that my news earlier today of economist Michael Hudson’s death was greatly exaggerated. A comment by bevin, below, showed me that I had the wrong Michael Hudson; a political scientist … Read More »
On Richmond Hill
Email exchanges yesterday, apropos my references to a subset of transgenderism which claims sex to be a ‘spectrum’, suggest I have not made myself sufficiently clear. So let me try again: I do not deny the sufferings of transgender persons … Read More »
Why I bang on about the trans thing
Since I’m more at home calling out the lies on China, Russia and Syria – else laying bare those mechanisms which ensure we have no independent media, hence no true democracy – you might ask why I’m bothering with this … Read More »
Transphobia? It’s time the woke woke up!
This from the Sunday Times today, June 6. Fundraiser block after cash pours in for feminist charged with hate crime A fundraising appeal to pay the legal bills of a feminist charged with a hate crime over alleged homophobic and … Read More »
Lakelandscapes
Long Close Farm, looking southeast from the Powterhow Wood shore, across Redness Point on the southern end of Bassenthwaite. Shot from several hundred yards away, on a long telephoto lens, in the soft light of early morning. Derwentwater from Crow … Read More »