Bill Hicks and Julian Assange: wherever truth abides, they are there in spirit
I have finally watched American: The Bill Hicks Story, having purchased my copy on the day of the film’s UK release. Predictably, I was pining for Hicks’ resurrection even more by the end. This...
View ArticleJody McIntyre & Ben Brown: Who do you think is the problem?
For years, since the Iraq war, I’ve not been fond of Ben Brown – he just comes across as so achingly loyal to his paymasters. Richard Seymour, writing about Brown’s much-panned interview with Jody...
View ArticleGaza: They’re people not ‘militants’
On 11th January some of us in Worcester will be hosting a film showing of ‘O Little Town of Bethlehem’, which follows the story of three men of three different faiths and their lives in Israel and...
View ArticleGaza flotilla: Murder becomes legal
Long time since I wrote anything here – been preoccupied with anti-cuts efforts mainly, but that reads like a poor excuse. So, what’s going outside this country – this country with its angry, confused,...
View ArticleWilliam Hague on Egypt: Hypocrite
I wonder whether William Hague knows he’s a blatant, sanctimonious hypocrite. According to the Telegraph: ‘Mr Hague said it was not for other countries to dictate who should be in power, or what their...
View ArticleAndrew Marr & Tony Blair: Let’s forget about the bloodbath
Dear Mr Marr I was genuinely shocked to see Tony Blair on Sunday AM (13/2/11), but then I remembered your famous quote: “I don’t think anybody after this is going to be able to say of Tony Blair that...
View ArticleDear New Statesman: Give me Pilger, not Purnell
Dear New Statesman James Purnell commented in the NS (21/2/11) that ‘the worst part of the anti-war argument was saying that we shouldn’t champion democracy’, but I don’t recall anyone involved in the...
View ArticleMatt Baker v David Cameron
Polite or cutting question? As it’s from Matt Baker, I’m inclined to think it was merely bland small-talk, but I love the ambiguity and Cameron’s initial shock. Matt Baker: How on earth do you sleep at...
View ArticleDo Gaza children die or get killed?
Compare and contrast: ‘Gaza: Children die in Israeli attack, say doctors’ [1] ‘Four Killed, 31 Injured by Israeli Attacks Targeting Gaza’ [2] According to the BBC, ‘Israel apologised for the civilian...
View ArticleGoldstone’s lack of evidence: He can’t change the fact that hundreds of...
So Richard Goldstone has retracted some of the central conclusions of his 2009 report on the Gaza conflict, such as that the Israeli military did not deliberately kill civilians. Or has he? Jonathan...
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