The General’s Son, Journey of an Israeli in Palestine By Miko Peled To paraphrase DH Lawrence, though Miko Peled writes of checkpoints and warfare, of wheelchairs and death, of humiliation…
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13 October 2023As a qualified schoolteacher I ought never to use words like ‘thick’. Unprofessional! But then I look at our politicians and so many words like that come to my lips.…
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Israel – Some people actually believed that it was a democracy
19 September 2023THE IDEA OF ISRAEL by Ilan Pappe. THE INVENTION OF THE LAND OF ISRAEL by Shlomo Sand. Both are worth reading in order to help understand what is happening there…
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14 September 2023Today in 1812 Napoleon, Emperor Napoleon, arrived in a deserted and mostly destroyed Moscow. This highly intelligent person was forced to realise that attacking Russia had not been such a…
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8 September 2023Today in 1935 Huey Long was killed. Quite how and by who it is not clear. He was a political opponent of FDR. Roosevelt’s New Deal usually has a good…
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2 September 2023Sir LINO (Labour In Name Only) is planning another purge. Now every Labour (sic) Party member who does not buy and devour the Sun, the Telegraph, the Mail and the…
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28 June 2023HEGEMONY OR SURVIVAL, AMERICA’S QUEST FOR GLOBAL DOMINANCE, 2003. By Noam Chomsky.
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Peel your eyes Plato – Save us from these politicians
16 March 2023Aristophanes gave us a great play, Lysistrata. For a view on war perhaps our politicians should be made to watch it.
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Save the Banks!
16 March 2023What shall, what can, what must we do? Once again our most blessed banks are suffering. Come on you poor, bestir yourselves and prop them up. You have done it…
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Inspired by a reminder of Latin homework just found in my old school blazer I shall attempt to make more use of the subjunctive. Let me see. “Had the voters…
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