Remember Margaret Thatcher on Honest Money? One of my favourite political moments was the Panorama interview with Margaret Thatcher as the 1987 election loomed. She was asked about her policy on inflation. Maybe the Q and A were somehow choreographed? The camera panned in to close-up as she replied "I […]
Phew. This lays it on the line for Mr Guevara, spoiled brat turned cruel bossyboots: Every time I see some privileged person protest touring, I think of Che. Every time I hear about some insurrectionists starting shit in other people’s neighborhoods, I think of Che. Every time some twenty-something white […]
For many years I have been a friend of the Centre for Research into Post-Communist Economies, a sturdy enemy of collectivism based in deepest Westminster. they did fine work in mobilising anti-communist analysis and economic thought during the Cold War and thereafter. This week they hosted a fine presentation and discussion […]
There was I thinking that Venezuela’s President Chavez was a crazed lumpen Leftist. And now he goes and confounds me by surpassing evil Wisconsin governor Scott Walker by handing out exemplary brutality to brave working-class Venezuelan trades-unionists. Hurrah.
Is right here. Behold the bewilderment, bemusement and sheer baffledness of Professor Mike Gonzalez at positions taken by sundry Latin American leaders on the general subject of Col Gadaffi’s career prospects: Yet the response to the Libyan events from Latin America’s radicals has been perplexing and disturbing. Chávez himself has […]
What is it that makes Marxists so tightly entangled in their own folly, and so self-satisfied and proud of it? Here is T Eagleton reviewing a book by the ‘indomitable’ E Hobsbawm: In 1976, a good many people in the West thought that Marxism had a reasonable case to argue. By 1986, most […]
I previously offered some operational ideas for Doing Something about Libya. One of them was this: expert support for opening of all Libyan regime secret police and other archives asap – let the dirty chips lie where they fall (mainly in Moscow?) The more I think about it, the more […]
I appeared on Press TV today in a pre-recorded Agenda programme due to go out on Saturday/Sunday. The subject was Libya, so everything we said probably will be well out of date by then. Press TV, for those unfamiliar with it, is Iran’s official international TV station and so steeped […]
Here is an eloquent look at Gaddafi’s wretched legacy across Africa from the Woyingi Blog: You can compare Libya’s Gaddafi to Tunisia’s Ben Ali and Egypt’s Mubarak but for those of you who are “anti-imperialists” there is a particularly disturbing lesson here because Gaddafi was supposed to be “one of the good […]
You can always rely on the hard-left Seumas Milne in the Guardian to articulate the far opposite of what any normal person is thinking – a handy public service he gives us here, helping us all formulate our thoughts so precisely in opposition to his. Click on the picture above his latest article […]
