On the 11th November 2023 the largest of a series of ongoing popular demonstrations against Israel’s actions against the population of Gaza took place in London. By some estimates between 800,000 and a million people attended, certainly far more than the official estimates of 300,000. By any standards this was a significant expression of popular feeling, … Continue reading Authoritarian Liberal Democracy—Editorial
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Gaza, Dawn of a New World
“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
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
The Ministry of Defence
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
A STATE FOR ALL ITS CITIZENS
A contribution to a debate Peter Brooke In a recent interview on BBC radio, Ehud Barak, the Israeli Prime Minister who is supposed to have offered the best deal Israel ever offered to the Palestinians, spelled out, in rather awkward grammar, what he regards as the ideal two state solution: 'I will never lose eye … Continue reading A STATE FOR ALL ITS CITIZENS
Palestine Links
Palestine Links—November 2023 GAZA: 3,195 children killed in three weeks surpasses annual number of children killed in conflict zones since 2019 (Save the Children, 29 October 2023) I run the UN agency for Palestine refugees. History will judge us all if there is no ceasefire in Gaza (Philippe Lazzarini, Guardian, 26 October 2023) Joe Biden’s … Continue reading Palestine Links
Gaza Motions in Parliament
Early Day Motion on Gaza — House of Commons 17th October 2023 Early day motions are short proposals that give MPs a chance to express an opinion, publicise a cause or support a position. They are rarely actually debated, and are only publicised in writing. Motion text This House utterly condemns the massacre of Israeli civilians and taking … Continue reading Gaza Motions in Parliament
GAZA STILLS
They line up for the camera, the remainder of families, still in life as in death, they don’t complain, make no requests, they will get nothing and have nothing but checkpoints, high walls, razor wire, Israeli fighter jets who strike at their children, their mothers, their fathers, their grandparents, their phones are listened to, their … Continue reading GAZA STILLS
