Fire and fury

The situation in Palestine is hard to look away from. So ugly, and so clear what the major source of ugliness is. Funny how some outrage or other occupies me these days, intensely, and then disappears as though it’s too tiring to sustain. When there is so much horror and injustice, it takes someone with […]

Happy endings

Yesterday, Saturday, was the day the government had decided, somewhat belated, to allow farmers to bring their produce to sell at Istanbul’s street markets. Why supermarkets are allowed to function in a lockdown but open air street markets are not remains a mystery for the ages – but so little of the pandemic response has […]

The wrong war

To nobody’s surprise, Labour has lost the Hartlepool by election to the Tories. I see plenty of recriminations between the Corbynite and the Starmer wings of the party, and the usual recriminations and disbelief that working class voters vote against their interests, but it feels like fighting the wrong war. It seems to me that […]

What I noticed

Coronavirus ravages India Pakistan next? The trial of the murderer of George Floyd Football Super League rises, falls Pakistan, India overtures on Kashmir Downing Street sleaze – I wish they’d just call it corruption US refuses to send vaccine precursors to India US recognises Armenian genocide Attacks on Arabs in Jerusalem President of Chad falls […]