Lebanon Has a Few Stragglers Living There
February 10, 2017 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
As ever in life, there were compensations that made life tolerable despite many difficulties.
Respect the Green Line!
February 10, 2017 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The most incisive analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict I have ever read was written by the Jewish-Polish-British historian Isaac Deutscher
Trading Places
February 4, 2017 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
More than ever in human history, we're caught in a tug of war that threatens to destabilise entire populations and even to redefine geo-political and cultural boundaries.
President Kong
February 4, 2017 12:00 am Leave your thoughts The real sad fact is that in every single speech since the inauguration, the main theme - indeed, almost the only theme - of President Donald Trump is I - I - I.
Brexit: The Supreme Court Decides!
February 4, 2017 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Ten lords and one lady justice of the Supreme Court decided that triggering Article 50 requires the authority of parliament.
America Polarized in Turmoil
February 3, 2017 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
United, we must take back our country from the ultra-supremacists in the White House
Trump and the Rise of Fascism in America
February 3, 2017 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Mr Trump seems to be planning the annihilation of vast populations by unleashing a new reign of fascist barbarity.
Momentum’s Night of the Long Knives
January 26, 2017 10:38 pm Leave your thoughts
And so the Bonaparte of Momentum was born. At a stroke, Momentum's democratic structures have been abolished; the tireless work of thousands of Corbyn supporters over the past year-and-a-half thrown out the window
In the meantime things are getting meaner
January 26, 2017 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
In the meantime there is a crisis of democracy. It is not a crisis in one country. The peace dividends we were promised have been squandered.
Getting out of mass society in order to foster social change
January 26, 2017 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Social change needs good politics. Good politics needs communities. And communities need individuality