We reproduce this article by Tim Pendry of the Workers Party of Britain Tim Pendry Unstable Times Sep 03, 2024 We are supposed to be either surprised or outraged by populist (both Left and Right) victories in the regional elections in East Germany but, leaving outrage to partisans, it should not be a ‘shock’ to anyone … Continue reading Germany & The Problem of Centrism under Pressure
By Gwydion M. Williams Suffering from Freedom, Rather Than Enjoying It. India – Twisting a Twisted System Anti-Social Housing Snippets China’s Continuing Rise Still Fighting to the Last Ukrainian An End to Feed-the-Rich? The Alternative Right How to be a Good Follower Austerity Was Pointless Fixing Addiction Suffering from Freedom, Rather Than Enjoying It. All … Continue reading Notes on the News
Brendan Clifford "Britain should be preparing for war—instead we're fretting over fiscal rules".—so says Paul Mason in City AM (9th April). Under his many disguises Mason has always remained a British patriot. British patriotism carries many things of the moment along with it on its erratic journey. These things are discarded in a moment when the opportunity arises for … Continue reading Britain Preparing for War
Gwydion M. Williams (The photo shows Robert Fico, PM of Slovakia) Georgia Defending its Sovereignty Slovakia Condemned for Disagreement Georgia Defending its Sovereignty If it is wrong for foreign powers to meddle in the politics of sovereign nations, surely it is sensible to make a law exposing those who have been meddled with? To insists … Continue reading The Slovak Assassin and the Riots in Georgia
PRESS RELEASE, May 22, 2024 Today the International Criminal Court has been officially called to investigate Ursula von der Leyen for complicity. Reasonable grounds exist to believe that the unconditional support of the President of the European Commission to Israel – military, economic, diplomatic and political – has enabled war crimes and the ongoing genocide … Continue reading Ursula von der Leyen ‘guilty of war crimes’
By Madawc Williams Between any two sovereign states, the only reality is Power Politics. Also true when a region within a sovereign state has a local majority who’d like to secede. And it’s common for both sides in secession struggles to claim that International Law is on their side. To have this repeated with great … Continue reading Secession and Ineffective Law
By Gwydion M. Williams The Strange Death of Free-Market Globalisation Sponge-Up: the Reagan / Thatcher legacy 1688: Parliament Without Democracy Snippets Israel and Iran – Glad to Hate Each Other Come Fly With Me, With Fly-Blown Quality Snow In Belgium, Caused By Global Warming Modi’s India Starmer and the Errors of Ramsay MacDonald Housing Impossible … Continue reading Notes on the News
By Gwydion M. Williams ‘Feed the Rich’ Dominates Politics The Niceness of the Next Nine Ukrainian Lives Matter China Rejects Feed-the-Rich Japanese Cherish Their ‘Honorary White’ Status Snippets Navalny: a Martyr for Libertarian Follies Israel’s Wrong Turn Falling Down for a Privatised Moon ‘Feed the Rich’ Dominates Politics We’re being told that those old people … Continue reading Notes on the News
“Events, dear boy !” Mick Murray “A terrible beauty”? Harold Macmillan was the author of such enduring soundbites, as they would now be called, such as “the winds of change” a euphemistic term for the beginnings of the decolonialisation of Africa and“they’ve never had it so good” to describe the social change in Britain as it began to enjoy … Continue reading Gaza, Dawn of a New World
Notes on the News By Gwydion M. Williams Democracy Only Real if Mediaeval? Democracy Frustrated Over Climate Change Class Politics in Climate Change Gaza: Ethnic Cleansing Snippets China Seeking Peace BBC Coopts a Dead Chinaman A New Hope for Germany? A Dope’s Guide to US Politics Gay Games in Hong Kong Wed Gayly, but no … Continue reading Notes on the News
Questions to the Ministry of Defence House of Commons 20 November 2023 These consecutive questions and answers to the Ministry of Defence cover a variety of topics, as per subheadings below. The questions and the answers show quasi unanimity among Labour and Tories regarding Defence and Foreign Affairs in general; they show also the British appetite … Continue reading The Ministry of Defence
Notes on the News By Gwydion M. Williams Israel Against Zionism? A War of Populations? Snippets Benedict Arnold Not a Traitor? Property Only With Privilege Climate Change Costs An end to Feed-the Rich? Poor People’s Burden Democratic Secession – Either Admirable or Forbidden Kiev Facing Defeat? China Purges Israel Against Zionism? Israel and its supporters … Continue reading Newsnotes
Putin’s speech at the Valdai discussion club—Extracts Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, made a significant speech at the Valdai Discussion Club. We reprint extracts of particular interest to our readers, although the whole, including the question and answer session is of great interest.[1] In these extracts it is possible to see Putin’s no-nonsense approach … Continue reading Putin Speech at Valdai
By Gwydion M. Williams Global Liberalism – its Second Massive Failure Broad Liberalism Isn’t Working Democracy – the Sinatra Principle China and its Pen-Foes Unhappy Britons Snippets India Very Foreign Nuclear the Least Dangerous? Ukraine – A Collapsing Crusade Global Liberalism – its Second Massive Failure The true history of the 20th century is how Europe’s … Continue reading Notes on the News
Statement by the President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez on behalf of the G77 at the Summit on the Sustainable Development Goals (New York, 18 September 2023) Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez calls in particular for an end to sanctions and a change to the way debt is managed: “Today, 25 nations of the … Continue reading Cuba at the G77
Michael Murray Contents: (1) Not just another BRIC in the Wall (2) Why the interest in BRICS by developing countries? (3) The founding document of BRICS: 2009 (4) The New Development Bank of BRICS - High S&P Ratings (5) The Chinks in the BRICS Not just another BRIC in the Wall This week, at its … Continue reading BRICS 15th Summit Conference 22-24 August 2023
Notes on the News By Gwydion M. Williams Sick Britain The Global South Stands Solid China In Chaos? Climate Change Inferiority for China and India? War Until the West Runs Out of Gullible Ukrainians? Snippets A Very English Ruthlessness India On The Moon Israel – Losing Westernisation Sick Britain From the 1980s, Britons were tricked … Continue reading Notes on the News
By Gwydion M. Williams · Britain Blighted by Upper London · Upper London Fears the Chinese Example · The Mistrustful USA · Snippets · Russia and China · Why Russia Rallies Round Putin · Worse Weather Britain Blighted by Upper London Well-meaning liberals like William Keegan are baffled that British politicians stay locked into policies that have caused vast suffering. Right-wing ideas … Continue reading Note on the News
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