Jacinda Ardern: Saint or Psychopath?
Martin Hanson While still at the height of her popularity, “Jacinda Ardern: Leading with Empathy”, a biography of the New Zealand Prime Minister was published. It was described by...
DISCUSS: Highlights of Davos 2023
The World Economic Forum’s annual week-long summit comes to a close today. You wouldn’t know that if you read the mainstream papers, who have buried it underneath coverage of...
Covid19 – Cock-Up or Conspiracy?
Dr Piers Robinson As debate over ‘The Science’ has increased, people are questioning whether there was more to COVID-19 in terms of underlying agendas, in particular with respect to...
The Pandora Papers: Same old nonsense in a new box
Kit Knightly The Pandora Papers are out! Following the riveting Panama Papers in 2016, and the astounding Paradise Papers of 2017, the latest entry in the trilogy of financial...
On Labour, and the nature of “reports” & “leaks”
Kit Knightly An internal Labour Party report on internal attitudes to Corbyn’s leadership and the “antisemitism” crisis on the left has just been “leaked”. It’s not that easy to...
The Propaganda of Terror and Fear: A Lesson from Recent History
The ongoing and unfolding reactions to the Corona Virus look set to have wide ranging and long-lasting effect on politics, society and economics. The drive to close down all...
Lead Us Not Into Oblivion
W Stephen Gilbert The simple response of course is to blame it all on Corbyn. Let’s face it, no more comprehensive bogeyman has ever been offered to the British...
The Fall and Rise of Racket Capitalism
Frank Lee Delving back into the history of Economic Thought[1] perhaps the most important contributions were made by the British Classical tradition starting with Adam Smith (1723-1790) followed by David...
“Only little people pay taxes.”
The Wheel of History Turns To understand the present, we must understand the past, and possibly the future direction of historical processes. Well where did it all begin? Well...
Who cares how war criminals vote?
And so ends the Labour career of Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's PR man, one of the key architects of the "dodgy dossier", a man complicit in every death that...
What divides Brexiters and Remainers?
The Brexit roller-coaster ploughs on unpredictably with moves by the House of Commons to block the ‘no deal’ Brexit that most Brexiters voted for. The media often brand...
Leavings
Tony Benn used to say that he grew more radical as he got older. As in many things, Benn was unusual. People are generally apt to grow...
WATCH: Robert Newman’s History of Oil
Philip Roddis The best comedians are the cleverest people on the planet. I’m grateful to a BTL comment on OffGuardian, below a piece of mine on Venezuela, for...
How a Second Referendum would reach beyond Brexit
Prof. Gloria Moss Voices are braying again for a Second Referendum, adding a familiar chorus to our Seasonal celebrations. We take a break from end of year festivities to...
Your debt and mine to Julian Assange
Philip Roddis In a recent post I referred to the vile treatment of a man who brought us irrefutible evidence, and in screeds, that the widely cherished notion of the West...
“Democratic Institutions?” – 10 Lessons from history that will destroy your trust in the CIA
In the hysterical wake of the Trump-Putin Summit in Helsinki, President Donald Trump was roundly criticised in the media for taking the side of a "hostile state" over his
From Troy to Damascus: Seeing the Light
by Hugh O’Neill One of the oldest cities in the world, Damascus was already 2,000 years old at the time of Homer’s Trojan War (1200 BC). In order to...
NATO – the tool of European neo-fascism and Pope’s “blessed silence”
by Prof. Arthur Noble, via InSerbia March 24, 1999 was a day of gross shame and ignominy in the historical annals of Britain and America. It was the day...
The "European Values" think-tank and their list of "Useful Idiots"
Just when you think that the Russo-phobic hysteria of the Western world couldn't possibly make itself any more ridiculous...something like this comes along. This is the europeanvalues.net list of...
Guardian Plugs War Criminal's Book
by Kit Nobody should be surprised to learn that Alistair Campbell, the former Blair PR guru, suffers from psychological problems. Obviously, lacking empathy to the extent that you can...
