The US media is all over the place trying to label the perpetrators of yesterday’s events in Washington. In the same report they’ve been called ‘a mob’ ‘terrorists’ and ‘rioters’…
Category: World Affairs
El Diego
El Diego slipped the surly bonds of earth today. In truth he never belonged in the first place, his gifts more suited to a stage where the gods play the…
Soldiers
The trouble with Europe,’ said Churchill, is that ‘it produces more history than it can consume’. The question this insight begs is what have we learned from this history. One…
No route back for the evangelicals
‘The arc of history is long - but it bends towards justice’. Some of the words of the great Martin Luther king in his classic ‘letter from Birmingham jail’. One…
Lady Ghislaine
So the fibbers have at long last caught up with the Lady Ghislaine. And there she was just like Osama Bin Laden was in Abbotobad Pakistan hiding in full view…
A gulf between the best and the rest
The gulf between the best and the rest was given another airing as man. city played Newcastle in the f.a cup. Adopting a defensive strategy was always the play for…
Juneteenth
Southern trees have a strange fruit Blood at the leaves and blood at the root Black bodies twistin in the summer breeze Strange fruit hangin from the poplar trees. The…
You’re a hard man Kirby
‘You’re a hard man Kirby’. The solemn judgement of cop A as with the back up of three other interrogators he expressed his frustration at the direction of progress in…
The big wink (April 2020)
Only a fool could fail to sympathise with the victims of the coronavirus. Through no fault of their own they find themselves stuck in quarantine on ships or in hotels…
The Gipper (26 March 2020)
I’m from the government and I’m here to help’. When he was campaigning for the presidency in 1980 Ronald Reagan said these words should strike terror into the heart of…