So far, I’ve tried to avoid reading anything about the Iraq inquiry, essentially because it’s a massive sham, a distraction, and will not lead to any kind of change, or any kind of justice for the hundreds of thousands of people killed in the Iraq war.
But because I follow people like Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Channel [...]
And why it won’t have any effect on our ‘democracy’.
The collapse of the news industry speaks volumes. It shows that people aren’t interested in the news and, if they are, they’re probably not willing to pay for it.
The corporate (or ‘mainstream’) media is sinking, and is doing everything it can to stay afloat: sacking staff, [...]
There’s an interesting piece over at Comment is Free by Natalie Hanman, though I disagree that the search for a definition of terrorism is “unresolved”.
For those who find it convenient for it to be “unresolved” it shall remain so, but for everyone else there is a perfectly adequate one. It also has the benefit of [...]
Disgustingly cynical at home and abroad.
The Guardian: UK and France agree on immigration clampdown
£15m allocated to border controls and repatriation of Calais immigrants stepped up as Brown and Sarkozy meet before G8 The government today agreed a new deal to handle the growing crisis of [...]
In which a Tory defers to the government’s view.
Some time ago I wrote to my MP, Edward Garnier, to express my concern over the government’s plans to make Personal, Social, Health, and Economic (PSHE) education part of the National Curriculum. ((The text was written by the British Humanist Association, whose campaign prompted me to contact [...]
