Coll-ecting my dark thoughts whilst afloat in the Hebrides
So I’ve just spent almost a week on Coll. A three-hour ferry sail due West of Oban it’s a wind-scoured little Hebridean isle; on a…
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You can’t make it up any more, the world itself is satire…
The title of this blog post is a quote by US political satirist Art Buchwald, who I read for the first time late last year.…
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Reasons to be (admittedly a little) cheerful this Christmas
At 8.20 yesterday morning I was standing in a very chilly car-park waiting for someone, Actually about eight people. Believe me this is not my…
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What do war criminals really want for Christmas?
I am feeling murkful. As though the world was not shitty enough right now, along strides prime minister Benyamin Netahanyu to posture at the Israeli…
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Standing by the [Gaza] ruins… consolations of vagabond poets
Back when I lived inside Gaza, when Gaza city stood proud with its Hamams and restaurants, its elegant hotels and its rag-tag beach cafes where…
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Don’t suffer the children, help those still alive to survive Gaza
No-one knows how many Palestinian children have died in Gaza since October 2023. Save the Children says at least one child has been killed every…
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Israeli government drones on, but not about starving Gaza
Even in these sad days of being held in near-total contempt by our own Government, they excel themselves. Take the recent announcement that the Israeli…
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When victims are perpetrators
This week an organisation called B’tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied [Palestinian] Territories, published two words on the front of…
Deeply offensive and totally unacceptable, indeed
So, Bob Vylan. The death-chant rap followed by Bobby V doubling down on defending ‘Death to the IDF’. Said he regretted only that the rap…
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‘Gaza will haunt us’
Mirjana Spoljaric’s words are prescient. ‘Gaza has become worse than hell on earth’ the President of the ICRC tells the BBC. World leaders ‘will be…
The Normalisation Doctrine, making mass killing old news
I once met the journalist Patrick Cockburn, and he was a bit grumpy. Which made me sad because I have a long-term crush on Patrick.…
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When Weapons Trump Aid
I once experienced the quite terrifying sight of a man outside my gate with a machete in one hand and a Kalashnikov in the other.…
