1. Comment on Open Mike 08/09/2026

    A blast from the past I was enjoying this interesting discussion, Briahna Joy Gray and Vijay Prasad. Suddenly, at the 16:50 mark, the late Paul Holmes makes an appearance! He’s interviewing The Highwaymen (Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash …

  2. Comment on Open Mike 22/07/2026

    Hopefully the Burnham regime will put an end to this political persecution In Britain, three things are verboten: pensioners, poetry, and expressing support for Palestinians, Flouting all three of these rules, this pensioner was arrested for reading a poem …

  3. Comment on Open Mike 09/05/2026

    Very good points, all, Dennis. I think there’s not a soul, other than poor old Starmer and his henchmen, that would not encourage crying on this occasion. Something like this, perhaps… https://giphy.com/gifs/usa-freedom-countries-k61nOBRRBMxva

  4. Comment on Open Mike 09/05/2026

    Starmer to Labour Party activists: “Please don’t cry on camera.” This report from Skawkbox, 7 May 2026… Keir Starmer’s desperate, zombie ‘Labour’ party has begged its ‘activists’ not to cry on camera today if asked about election results. Channel 4 News‘ …

  5. Comment on Open Mike 22/01/2026

    Can you answer Adamski’s question, Res?

  6. Comment on Open Mike 22/01/2026

    Russia didn’t start that NATO-provoked conflict, any more than Russia handled Trump as a Manchurian candidate in 2016.

  7. Comment on Open Mike 22/01/2026

    I’ve never thought Zelenskyy was the one driving this war. So who is driving this war? You know it as well as I do. Trump’s golfing buddy and investor in human misery and mayhem Senator Lindsey Graham explained it perfectly it a few years back. … Sen. …

  8. Comment on Open Mike 22/01/2026

    Carney agrees “in principle” with Trump’s Board of Peace in Gaza, and he supports the abduction of President Maduro. How exactly is he a dissenter, as opposed to a toady? [TheStandard: A moderator moved this comment to Open Mike as being off topic or …

  9. Comment on Open Mike 22/01/2026

    Zelenskyy should never have let Boris Johnson, in Istanbul in 2022, bully him out of making peace with Russia a few weeks into the conflict. Another large-scale Russian strike yesterday has brought Kiev and several other major Ukrainian cities to the brink …

  10. Comment on Open mike 23/03/2025

    The link doesn’t work? It worked fine for me. [lprent: It took me about 15 minutes to get into X myself. Then your link provided no explanation or context. I suspect that it referred to the journalist at RNS who’d been sub-editing stories by others to a …

  11. Comment on Open mike 23/03/2025

    Is there a society anywhere half as depraved as the one where people like this are marching in the streets? https://x.com/BroccoliTickles/status/1903300686793568496/photo/1

  12. Comment on Open mike 23/03/2025

    The government not being seen as the abiter of objective truth is obvious from Marxist Leninism in the USSR, Goebbels or the BBC***. And the heavily censored government mouthpiece Radio New Zealand. https://x.com/search?q=from%3AMaxBlumenthal%20rnz&src= …

  13. Comment on The World Turned Upside Down (again)

    No, I was joking. You’re no Rachel Maddow. Before she lost her marbles in 2015, she was an interesting and entertaining broadcaster. I read and admired her book Drift a few years ago. It’s brilliant, and a melancholy reminder of what she was capable of …

  14. Comment on The World Turned Upside Down (again)

    As well as rambling, incoherent, and barely literate, your reply is riddled with falsehoods. The most amusing of those statements is this one: “Russia bankrolls Iran…” Could you furnish us with some evidence to support that?

  15. Comment on Open mike 19/03/2025

    Why have so many Ukrainians given their lives Conscription. Merciless conscription. Do you realise how old the average Ukrainian conscript is? for Ukraine’s contiuning independence ???? Being forced to be pawns in yet another U.S. proxy war is the …

  16. Comment on Open mike 19/03/2025

    Like all NZ govts since 1991, I recognise the independence of Ukraine. The independence of Ukraine is one thing. Ukraine joining the U.S.-run military organization NATO is another thing entirely. Ukraine’s—or to be more accurate, its American handlers’ …

  17. Comment on The World Turned Upside Down (again)

    “Moral equivalence”? Russia has not set the Middle East on fire. Russia did not destroy Iraq. Russia has not supported Al Qaeda in Libya and Syria. Russia has not sponsored the attempted genocides in Yemen, Gaza, the Occupied Palestinian Territories and …

  18. Comment on Open mike 19/03/2025

    Do I? You support this proxy war, where the U.S. and U.K. and Germany supply the weapons—at an exorbitant price— and young Ukrainian men pay with their lives. Never much cared for Boris or his mission(s)… Oh really? You’ve certainly changed then.

  19. Comment on The World Turned Upside Down (again)

    How ridiculous you seem when you write something like that. Have you thought of applying for a job with, say, MSNBC? You’d fit in nicely in that paranoid joint. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/03/27/rachel-maddows-deep-delusion-226266/

  20. Comment on The World Turned Upside Down (again)

    The only sad thing about any of this, Morrisey [sic], is the mods [sic] puzzling ongoing tolerance for your puerile whaboutism [sic] in defence of a regime that’s [sic] guilty of every single crime you gleefully [???!?!?] accuse the USA of. That’s …

  21. Comment on Open mike 19/03/2025

    The uprising — which was violent, not peaceful — would likely not have been successful were it not for foreign military intervention and aid. That “aid” (i.e. weapons for Al Qaeda) came from American politicians such as this cackling psychopath… https:// …

  22. Comment on The World Turned Upside Down (again)

    Facts matter. Not for Grauniad-infected Russiagate conspiracy nuts.

  23. Comment on The World Turned Upside Down (again)

    … you love facism [sic] and war crimes…. putative Leftists beating themselves off to Kremlin propoganda [sic]… your wee little tankie circlejerk… That sad little farrago of name-calling looks even worse when it’s so illiterate and careless.

  24. Comment on The World Turned Upside Down (again)

    RT, Al Jazeera, Deutsche Welle, France 24, the BBC, the ABC, RNZ: they’re all state broadcasters and should all be treated with skepticism. That doesn’t mean their output should be summarily dismissed. Hell, even the BBC, when it’s not relaying black …

  25. Comment on Open mike 19/03/2025

    So you support Boris Johnson’s mission of mayhem in the spring of 2022? You don’t think there should have been a peace agreement three years ago? How long before you come to the same realisation that this young Ukrainian soldier has? https://x.com/ …

  26. Comment on Open mike 19/03/2025

    So how long do you want this proxy war to continue? How many more Ukrainian lives do you want to eliminate in order to irritate Russia? And irritate Russia is all that NATO is capable of, in spite of lame quips such as Biden’s one about the rouble turning …

  27. Comment on Open mike 19/03/2025

    “Horseshoe theory.” Someone’s been listening to talking heads on CNN and taking them seriously.

  28. Comment on The World Turned Upside Down (again)

    the menacing threat from the USSR was very real to us Europeans. Russia was going to invade the U.K. was it? Do you still feel “menaced” by those scary Communists?

  29. Comment on Open mike 19/03/2025

    “Kill each other”? The mass murder in Syria and Lebanon has been, and is, financed and diplomatically backed by what the Chinese government rightly calls the Empire of Chaos and Deceit: the United States, and its vassal regimes in London, Paris, Brussels, …

  30. Comment on Open mike 19/03/2025

    Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …