Enough Bullshit!
White South African farm murders.
Bill
Period. End. Done.
The Scottish government has just taken a massive step to eradicate period poverty. Why not here?
Censorship
It seems that if you’re the right person, harbour the correct thoughts, have the right connections, and you don’t like whatever the political opinion, news or information that’s floating about is, then you can get it banned.
Finkelstein on Dame Hodge
“…if any – if any – of the rules that are now being implemented in the Labour Party have any meaning whatsoever… the first person who should be booted out of the Labour Party is Dame Hodge.” – Finkelstein.
A Thousand Words
…in a single graph.
Propaganda Wars.
No-one reading this blog would willfully offer support to an ideology that’s killing people, right?
The Pied Piper
If we’re living in a global village, is the name of the village Hamelin?
Was this summer, that summer?
A post about the jet stream and heatwaves.
Auntie Beeb gets a well deserved skelping.
Censorship kicked into touch.
Burning it Down.
The BBC goes a bit ‘book burny’ on it.
Corporatism.
Hand in hand with “compassionate liberalism”.
Just a quick thought…
Yeah, okay, it’s a couple of thoughts on the Canadian jokers and what is and isn’t happening in response to their stuff.
Nurses.
There’s a sickness affecting our health system.
A right, Left problem
A post suggesting that the traditional descriptive lens of “left and right” isn’t up to capturing current political realities.
My Little Eye…
Something beginning with…wtf?!
Glenn Greenwald on…
Excerpts from Glenn Greenwald speaking on Democracy Now! (h/t Adrian Thornton)
Oh, Yulia!
Whodunnit?
Wool. Eyes. Pull.
As though politicians with a social democratic bent don’t have enough to contend with…
In Short…
A post puzzling over our collective state of mind in the face of incredible danger and suggesting the only course of action we can take. Covering our eyes and blocking our ears isn’t it.
Free Speech.
It’s a principle.
Progress.
I don’t pay much attention to news channels these days, and realise this will have been all over the place in the shape of headlines and lead stories. So I’m sorry for simply echoing that which is already being amplified, but hey…
Smile!
The extent and limits of current politics.
Novichok II
And then there was five.
Arses and Elbows
Deserving workers and undeserving workers in the public service.
updated
And then there was….
The aftermath of Douma chemical attacks and Skripal poisonings…
Flying Kites.
If we can’t see the wood for the trees, shouldn’t we simply step back a bit and look again?
The War on Carbon
Or a conscientious objection to any War on Climate Change, or War on Global Warming.
A Question from a Room.
Take a look around the room you’re in. Or if you’re out and about and reading this on some mobile device, then take a look around the next room you enter. Closely.
Let’s Build a Hospital!
…on reclaimed land. (Dunedin) – because water features are nice things to have.
Liberalism Uber Alles
If the political class think liberalism has failed, then why is it that the process of killing off NZ Post is approaching completion?
New World Disorder.
Liberalism was meant to be the New World Order and even (so the briefly celebrated Fukiyama reckoned anyway) an End to History. Big stuff then. But it seems the placid and complacent consensus is fraying round the edges.
Sonic Attack
What follows isn’t satire or parody. Apparently.
Steaming cow poo.
Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth according to a Guardian headline.
Yeah. No it’s not.
Strange Democracy.
Quietly mulling on the difference between foreign interference (malign) and influence (benign).
Autonomy.
So women in ‘half’ of an island have bodily autonomy.
Yulia wants to go home.
Oops. Was this desire meant to be in the script?