BTL comment on the Kernow Damo podcast featured below * Yesterday I welcomed – “with all due tepidity” – a Guardian piece earlier in the week by Owen Jones on the violence in Iran; the welcome bit for its opening sentence: “What … Read More »
Guardian, January 13 2026 * I read two pieces yesterday by men of whom I have decidedly mixed feelings. One being Owen Jones, writing in the Guardian on the attempted and I hope abortive ‘colour revolution’ in Iran. On this … Read More »
Still kicking myself. Seconds before leaving the house this morning, for a stroll with Jackie and Tebay, I contemplated bringing my grown up camera. Problem being I was on the ground floor while said item sat two floors above. Nah, … Read More »
Today I bring four third-party pieces, all short, but I start with a correction. In my post five days ago, on the prima facie murder of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, I got two details wrong; one of them critical. … Read More »
I’m kicking myself. In my rushed post two days ago, the first of two on the subject, I gave three reasons why I will not cheer for regime change in Iran: Our politicians and corrupt media have every interest in … Read More »
The Guardian, January 12 2026 When you overthrow a government you leave a power vacuum, and somebody’s going to step into it. There is no clear movement, faction, or successor in Iran strong enough to secure power against whichever group … Read More »
I’ve got to a point where the reasoning of liberals has begun to sicken me. (Others hit that point years ago and have taken me to task for my foot-dragging on this score.) Whomsoever the most powerful narrative managers on … Read More »
* The descent into dictatorship cannot be explained as merely the product of Trump’s personal ambitions or psychopathology. The United States is governed by a capitalist oligarchy that fuses the aristocratic outlook of monarchy and the ideological reaction of the … Read More »
Donald Trump’s Hitlerian deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller … … has an equally obnoxious wife. On January 3, twelve hours after the world digested news of the US kidnapping of Venezuela’s leader Nicolás Maduro, Katie Miller took to ‘X’ … Read More »
* When criminals show their true face, believe them. Here’s George Bush at a black tie dinner 20 years ago for Radio and TV journalists, joking to sycophantic applause about the elusive WMD in Iraq. Those WMD being the casus … Read More »