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Iran -The Monster the West Created
Back When Iran Looked “Normal” Seventy years ago, Iran did not look like the villain in a Western action film. It had short skirts. Rock and roll. Universities full of women. Cafes. Newspapers. Arguments about politics that did not involve morality police vans. It looked, inconveniently, like a country trying to modernise on its own terms. Then oil entered ...
Dirty Business – The Great Sell-Off
I am old enough to remember water privatisation in the late 1980s. It was sold as modernisation. Crumbling Victorian infrastructure would be renewed. Efficiency would improve. And as a bonus, ordinary people could make a quick profit by buying shares. Fishermen, rowers, surfers and nature lovers were worried. Banks, hedge funds and speculators were delighted. ...
Royal Accountability – Surely it’s the Way Forward?
Let me start here. I’m not a rabid anti-royalist. I’m not polishing a pitchfork or practising republican chants in the shower (although I do sing Billy Bragg’s ‘The World Turned Upside Down’ a fair bit). I understand the argument for a constitutional monarchy. I understand soft power. Tourism. Continuity. Pageantry. Hats. Fine. But it is 2026, not ...
When Sympathy Isn’t Enough: How Do We Stop Radicalisation Before It Takes Democracy Down With It?
I don’t pretend to have the answers to this complex question. In fact, the older I get the more I realise how little I know about the “right” way to deal with people who’ve fallen headfirst into far-right cultism. People I used to like and respect are getting sucked into it. It’s fucking depressing. I do know this: if enough people get radicalised, they ...
Lord of the Flies – Excellent BBC Remake of a Book From Schooldays
I finally got round to watching the new BBC adaptation of Lord of the Flies, and I’ll be honest, I went in expecting worthy, slightly heavy drama. It is indeed heavy. But it’s also very well done. Many of us did the book at school. Basically, a group of boys crash on an island, no adults, and at first they try to do things with some kind of democratic ...