WSJ Tuesday January 28 2025 – more here * I sure did take my eye off the ball on this one! I’d thought DeepSeek a sex position, like cowgirl or doggie, till yesterday afternoon. Returning from stroll, sandwich and pint … Read More »
Eyup, I’ll tell thee a story. In 1988 I was doing a Ph.D on computing tools for writers. I was also teaching a few hours a week in the computing department at a Sheffield City Polytechnic soon to gain university … Read More »
Who by his own hand? Who by his Lady’s command? Who shall I say is calling? Leonard Cohen The US and collective West are in decline: in some countries more rapidly than in others; in some self-accelerated. On the latter, … Read More »
Yesterday morning, in writing my intro to Paul Knaggs’s skewering of one instantiation of the heartless idiocies of Team Starmer, I picked up on Mr Knaggs having quoted Naomi Klein’s splendid work: I can’t recommend Shock Doctrine too highly. It rides the … Read More »
The government can’t say who’s committing fraud or how much it really costs – if they could, they’d be catching the actual fraudsters instead of building a surveillance system to monitor everyone’s bank accounts. They’re using a mathematical model based … Read More »
In my last post but one, Donald Trump is the empire unmasked, I quoted Caitlin Johnstone as per the above image caption. In the post which followed it, What is to be done?, I offered Chris Hedges’ slightly more detailed … Read More »
There can be a temptation to sit back and cheerlead for this or that state or militant group and say they’re going to bring the empire to its knees, but really it isn’t their responsibility to end the western empire. … Read More »
* Since my post tomorrow begs to differ with Caitlin Johnstone on a far from trivial matter, I was glad to read her post this morning and in it find – as usual – nothing I could take issue with. … Read More »
Today Mark Taliano posted this. I concur without reservation and invite those with a different view to argue it in the comments section or, by arrangement, in a guest post. What am I thinking? What am I thinking. I am … Read More »
I’m kicking myself. It’s months now since I was at a Palestine demonstration, either in London or the steel city. Why wasn’t I at this one? Fortunately, the always reliable Jonathan Cook was. The former Guardian journalist and blogger from … Read More »