Thoughts and not beliefs, with the occasional wild speculation
Britain is currently going through one of its worst national economic crises ever, just after the supposedly empowering move of Brexit. In amongst soundbites on freedom from the tyranny of the EU and a magical NHS (represented by a magic all bus) the slogan that reportedly clinched Brexit was as we all by now know …
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Many reviews of Anglo-Jewish filmmaker Gillian Mosely’s documentary, The Tinderbox: Israel and Palestine – The Untold Story, highlight that it raises uncomfortable questions, mostly for the pro-Israel camp. (See JW3, Jewish News and various film critic reviews, and a discussion with Mosely at Oxford University Middle East Centre). A fact based, emotionally and politically neutral …
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In 2006, the ultra-right conservative, Christian fundamentalist Amy Coney Barrett, later appointed to the US supreme Court in 2022, signed her name to a newspaper ad taken out by an anti-abortion group. The ad condemned what the group characterised as “abortion on demand”, further declaring support for “the right to life from fertilization to natural …
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The knives are out for Boris Johnson as events unfold at a pace even hungry reporters are finding dizzying to keep up with. Till now it has proven difficult to pin down the Convict, as John Crace of the Guardian calls Johnson. Or, rather more aptly, to grab hold of the Greased Piglet, who after …
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This could pass as the average profile of a right wing conservative in America. The overturning of Roe v Wade in June 2022 is what some are calling the thin edge of the wedge. Soon, they fear, all other freedoms and rights will be under threat, all sanctioned by the highest authority in the land. …
I imagine that many of us often raise our hands in despair when thinking of how to change the social and economic system under which an entire planet is yoked. A profit driven system, with those profits going to just a few as the planet is trashed and the majority struggle along, often going without. …
Tragically, we speak not a pop band but another senseless massacre by gun and, as nearly always, in the USA, this time in Texas. Disingenuously, gun lobbyists declare it has nothing to do with guns. Gun control advocates; that it has everything to do with it. The latter position might seem to be the most …
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Dear Mr Xi Jinping,I read about the re-education camps in your country. They look fabulous. I’ve been thinking of attending summer school for a while, and this sounds ideal. How can I apply?Your faithfully DPC Ed
Following the announcement by KPMG and Netflix to suspend operations in Russia and Belarus over the attack on Ukraine, the CEO and founder of Airbnb has announced similar measures for the global holiday rental platform. Speaking on the BBC Radio 4 Today program (7 March 2022), Brian Chesky talked of a difficult decision that in …
Climate change can be viewed as a handy, planetary scale, natural experiment whose outcome will cast new light on the politics of left and right. In amongst the gathering climate disaster and impending catastrophe of unchecked climate change there is an uncounted blessing. Small comfort though it is, we might finally have a test that …
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