life at the sharp end

I heard a bit of inside goss about the situation at Stormont. The source of which I'll not divulge but I will say comes from the ins...

In 2014 when the Scottish referendum happened what could have been a typical politically empty, nationalistic / jingoistic (from both side...

The Nolan Show is occasionally capable of some of the worst examples of local journalism.  The episode earlier this year where they covered...

A bit late for the ten year anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War but ah well, better late than never.  This seems somewhat timely gi...

No two ways about it, indoctrinating your kids isn’t cool. Using your parental authority to shape the psychological makeup of your offspri...

With reference to my previous post , read it now if you haven't already. Well, he's since done another talk at Imperial college Lo...

Tonight I did an introduction for the branch meeting of the Socialist Workers Party on the subject of Mark Fishers book Capitalist realism. ...

For those of you reading this blog who don’t know who Norman Finklestein is exactly it is worth saying a few things by way of introduction. ...