Cliff Jones

In response to the suicide of a devoted headteacher Ofsted have announced that they intend to shift from simple labels to reports with more words in them. In his book,…

Starmer’s U.K. makes money from its sale of arms to Israel. That would all stop if Iran and others who Israel has attacked retaliated together. A defeated Israel would not…

“It will all be over by Friday.” A casual remark about the General Election in the pub just now. I thought of The Great War, “It will all be over…

By Simon Kuper (2022). Having done no preparation walk into your school (Eton, of course) or university (Oxford, where else?) debating chamber and amuse an audience by opposing arguments that…

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…

As 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.…

THE 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…

Today 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…

Today 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…

Sir 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…