Notes on the News By Gwydion M. Williams Brexit Failures Wearing Out Russia China ‘bites the bullet’ for Covid-19 Snippets Australia Day a Bad Memory Normal for China Cities Fit for Humans? Hindu Racism The Internet as Electronic Slum Killer Railways in the USA Brexit Failures “What would genuine plan for levelling up the north … Continue reading Notes on the News
World News
Conway Hall Cancels
Cancellation of No2Nato event —25 February 2023 — Conway Hall A Conference organised by No3Nato/Workers Party of Britain has been cancelled by Conway Hall, the Home of Free Speech, a month before it was due to take place on 25th February 2023. Previously St Pancras Church had also succumbed to pressure and cancelled the same proposed meeting. At … Continue reading Conway Hall Cancels
On Strikes and Wars — Editorial 2
Can British trade unions defend their members’ standard of living without taking a position on the war in Ukraine? The standard of living of the British working class has fallen because NATO is engaged in a war against Russia using Ukraine as its proxy army. Do British trade unions support this NATO war against Russia? If so, should … Continue reading On Strikes and Wars — Editorial 2
Ukrainian Refugees and ‘small boat’ Asylum seekers
Eamon Dyas By the end of July 2022, the U.K. government had estimated that 104,000 Ukrainian refugees had arrived in the UK in the previous 5 months. [See: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/100000-ukrainians-welcomed-to-safety-in-the-uk %5D By the 24th of August 2022 data compiled by the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford showed that over 115,200 Ukrainian refugees were officially living in … Continue reading Ukrainian Refugees and ‘small boat’ Asylum seekers
Eco-warriors are not Fighting Climate Change
Eamon Dyas The whole issue of climate change has long been hijacked by the liberal lobby and they have effectively debilitated any effective response by pushing it into the stable of virtue signalling. This has meant that those who are concerned about the issue are now preoccupied with it as an abstract cause that is … Continue reading Eco-warriors are not Fighting Climate Change
Notes on the News
Notes on the News By Gwydion M. Williams Back to Tax-and-Spend? USA Still Macho on Climate Snippets A New Age of Gold? China Badmouthed Over Covid-19 North Korea – Too Dangerous to Invade? UAS Losing its Farmers India Overpopulated? Heavy Punishment for Upsetting the Rich and Powerful Everything Russian Must Be Bad? Northern Cyprus – … Continue reading Notes on the News
How to Fail at Globalisation
How the USA Botched 1990s Globalisation By Gwydion M. Williams In the early 1990s, the USA was handed the world on a plate. And they knocked the plate over. Vain and greedy and aggressive, their two dominant political parties were united in doing most of the wrong things. And in Britain, Tony Blair encouraging all the errors. Almost … Continue reading How to Fail at Globalisation
NATO Serbia and Russia Ukraine
From a briefing by NATO spokesman Jamie Shea. Brussels, May 25, 1999:Question : If you say the [Yugoslav] army has a lot of generators, why are you depriving the country of 70% not only of electricity but also of water supply, because, according to you, [NATO] only strikes military installations.Answer : Unfortunately, command and control systems also depend on … Continue reading NATO Serbia and Russia Ukraine
Notes on the News
By Gwydion M. Williams Fall of the Last Thatcherite Parliamentary Democracy – Always an Illusion China – a Very Different 20th Congress Xi’s Hardening Line Snippets Lukewarm Guilt Over Russia Xinjiang: the UN Accepts Normal Police Methods Militant Pensioners? Have Fun, Kill the Poor? Finding That Damn Asteroid! Feed-the-Rich in ‘Free’ Ukraine Fall of the … Continue reading Notes on the News
LNG Tankers and Speculation
The markets and speculation: the case of LNG trading Eamon Dyas More than 35 vessels laden with LNG (Liquid Natural Gas) were drifting around the Mediterranean in October. The explanation I read was the limited landing slots in Spain. I suspect the reason is a combination of inadequate landing facilities and shippers taking advantage of this … Continue reading LNG Tankers and Speculation
Labour on Ukraine
Labour on Ukraine in Parliament Parliament Notes Shadow Minister for the Armed Forces, Luke Pollard, replying to a statement on Ukraine from Ben Wallace in Parliament 20 October 2022. This is just a sample, to show that Labour and Conservative speak with one voice on Ukraine. On that particular day, both congratulate themselves on the British ability … Continue reading Labour on Ukraine
Italy, Greece and Ukraine
Italy, Greece and Ukraine Italy and Greece, support for the Ukraine war, the least enthusiastic in Europe YouGov-Cambridge has published the results of a survey of international opinion regarding the Ukraine war. https://docs.cdn.yougov.com/0ma5boayqk/Globalism%202022%20-%20The%20info%20war%20for%20Ukraine%20-%20All%20markets.pdf Looking at the table of results (all on one page, magnifying glass required) Greece, Italy and Spain to a lesser extent give … Continue reading Italy, Greece and Ukraine
Ukraine’s Borders
Eamon Dyas An aspect of Gorbachev’s disastrous arrangement with NATO on German reunification was the implications it went on to have for the borders between Russia and its post-Soviet neighbouring countries. However the continuing existence of that border arrangement would not have been so problematic had the US honoured the unwritten agreement with Gorbachev not … Continue reading Ukraine’s Borders
Notes on the News
By Gwydion M. Williams Trickle-Down – a Swindle Who Needs the Multi-millionaires? The World Shanghaied? Russo-Ukrainians Forbidden Democracy? Sweden and Italy, Overstrained Communities Italy, Also Overstrained Two Nice People, Unfit For Their Jobs Snippets More Tory Failures Turkish Inequality Trickle-Down – a Swindle President Biden recently denounced Trickle-Down.[A] Then Liz Truss affirmed the idea: tax cutting … Continue reading Notes on the News
Freezing for Zelensky
Editorial 2 Boris Johnson told the British public on 24th August that they must make significant sacrifices of their living standards to protect the freedom of the Ukrainian people. If this means high fuel bills, freezing or going hungry then so be it. Labour Affairs and others have already exposed the lies that underpin this rhetoric and we … Continue reading Freezing for Zelensky
Notes on the News
By Gwydion M. Williams Heat Waves, Floods and Drought The Mixed Economy – Thatcherism’s Secret Vice Technology: the World Not Set Free Inheritance – Preserving Small Businesses? Women Hated for Not Being Inferior Snippets China Fine for Useful Foreign Businesses Religion and Superstition Free Speech and Arab Winters Korea & Turkiye. Heat Waves, Floods and … Continue reading Notes on the News
Making Africa feel small
Africa is really big. ° Africa area = 30,37 million km2 ° China area = 9,6 million km2 ° US area = 9,8 million km2 ° Europa area = 10,18 million km2 ● Africa is bigger than all of Europe, China and the United States of America together. ● But on most world maps, Africa is represented … Continue reading Making Africa feel small
Extra: One Sane Voice in Europe from Die Linke
From the Morning Star, 29/8/22 https://morningstaronline.co.uk/system/files/pdf-editions/M_Star_290822.pdf GERMANY’S current coalition is “the worst post-war government we’ve had” and is fanning the flames of the Ukraine war rather than seeking to end it, a Die Linke MP told the Morning Star at the Unsere Zeit Press Festival in Berlin at the weekend. Sevim Dagdelen, a Bundestag member … Continue reading Extra: One Sane Voice in Europe from Die Linke
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