What to make of the Bradley Manning verdict – guilty on multiple counts? My first reaction is “good!”. Here is a silly if not mentally ill squirt who abused a position of trust and leaked vast quantities of American classified material, most of it things he could not even have […]
Here is another article fretting feebly over the fact that the European Union is ‘punching below its weight’ in global negotiations: Although the EU is a minority bloc within the General Assembly and Human Rights Council (HRC), its power resources could in principle be wielded to help the EU gain […]
Here is my latest Commentator piece about what the Zimmerman case tells us about self-defence laws here in the UK. Namely nothing at all: A desperate piece in the New Statesman by Jacob Turner strains every sinew to link the Zimmerman case in the USA with the UK’s self-defence laws: […]
I draw your attention to this piece by Sam Rocha at Patheos (a site bringing together all sorts of different religious views and insights). It looks at the Zimmerman trial with a keen eye, and draws some wide conclusions based on reading many of the key court documents/statements (NB fascinating […]
I have been away at Crawf Major’s University graduation ceremony and generally wilting in the heat of the sun and the England cricket attack. Some space for some writing now reappears, including a nice opportunity to write something for Scotland’s Sunday Post about Martin Luther King’s I have a Dream […]
Good grief. Nice writing on race and related issues by ‘mixed race’ writer Shelby Steele who knows a few things about the history of race relations in the USA and has written a book on the subject, White Guilt. Thus: Today’s black leadership pretty much lives off the fumes of […]
Some US trials mutate into epic morality plays or vasty political metaphors that (it is said) are a Microcosm of Society. Especially when there is a ‘racial’ element involved (or said to be involved) the fairness or otherwise of the process and the eventual outcome is scrutinised in astonishing detail […]
Every now and again an article comes along that assembles all one’s own inchoate half-thoughts into a free-flowing stupendous whole. This time Charles Moore delivers on the plight of wretched US über-leaker Edward Snowden: Acting in the name of a morality which disdains allegiance to the rule of national law, […]
It is interesting how quickly these heroic WikiLeakers plummet into self-ridicule. Here is E Snowden moaning about his current situation: He says President Obama is putting pressure on the countries from which he has requested political asylum. “The president ordered his vice president to pressure the leaders of nations from […]
I expect that very few readers here have heard of Helena Wolinska-Brus. Here she is. A Polish Jewish woman (or even a Jewish Polish woman) who narrowly escaped death in the Warsaw Ghetto and went on to become a ruthless post-WW2 Stalinist prosecutor, sending various Polish patriots to their murky […]
