This is a letter to my member of parliament. Steve McCabe, MP Dear Steve, Over the last few weeks I have watched a shambles of government making false (or at least unsubstantiated) accusations against a major power, Russia, culminating in coordinated air-strikes on Syria, which began late on Friday 13 April 2018. This was done without consulting parliament.... Continue Reading →
Skripal case ─ a whale of a lie ─ codename “Beluga”
The fiction writers who created the attempted murder of the Skripals by an alleged Novichok nerve agent might make a modest living scripting second-rate movies. There is room for fantasy in fiction and we all need entertaining but there is a real world too even if the borders are becoming less and less distinct. Appropriately... Continue Reading →
Democratic Dictatorship
When we marched through London to Hyde Park in an effort to prevent Tony Blair's War in Iraq we were totally ignored. Blair had no interest in the electorate. He just wanted to destabilise Iraq and see western companies installed to steal the oilfields. Clare Short summed his attitude up by saying that he never... Continue Reading →