“Us” and “Them”
May 7, 2016 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Some days ago, Yitzhak Herzog said something especially obnoxious. He declared that his party is failing at elections because people believe that its members are "Arab lovers".
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Clean eating versus industry
May 7, 2016 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
During the eighties and nineties here in the UK we were broadly encouraged to eat lower fat spreads such as margarine, associated with a push for polyunsaturated fat consumption
A Question of Perspective
May 7, 2016 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
David Morgan explains why Tom Driberg's book, "Guy Burgess: A Portrait with Background" is still well worth reading.
Bank of North Dakota Soars Despite Oil Bust: A Blueprint for California?
May 7, 2016 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Despite North Dakota's collapsing oil market, its state-owned bank continues to report record profits. This article looks at what California, with fifty times North Dakota's population, could do following that state's lead
Iraq – US Apocalypse in Mosul in the Guise of Bombing ISIS
May 1, 2016 6:57 pm Leave your thoughts
"The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants." (Albert Camus 1913-1960).
The Other Gandhi
May 1, 2016 12:00 am Leave your thoughts I had a visitor: General Rehavam Ze'evi, known by his nickname Gandhi, an extreme rightist, came to see me.
In the Panama Capers we Trust
May 1, 2016 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The leaked Panama Papers, from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca & Co, are spilling the beans on the details of what the rich, powerful and greedy get up to with unseemly amounts of dosh
Iraq – Fallujah’s Residents Starving, Murdered, Besieged by US Backed Government Forces and ISIS
May 1, 2016 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
It is hard to imagine that anything worse could befall Fallujah after the war crimes and criminal assaults by the US military in 2004
An Incongruous UN Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul
April 26, 2016 1:48 pm Leave your thoughts
President Erdogan should not have the honour of hosting the first ever United Nations World Humanitarian Summit
John Whittingdale’s Curious Notion of Culture
April 21, 2016 10:56 am Leave your thoughts
The Minister of Culture, Media and Sport has chosen a controversial film as his favourite