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On justifying military intervention in Syria 27 Aug 2013 | 06:02 pm
The signs are now clear that Washington and other Western powers, including Britain, are considering military action against Syria on account of the regime's apparent use of chemical weapons against S...
The most harmful idea in the world? 26 Aug 2013 | 08:52 pm
I've not given much thought to ranking the worst ideas there are, so I wouldn't know what the very worst among them is. But Doug Saunders in the Globe and Mail offers as a candidate for 'the most harm...
A test of captaincy 26 Aug 2013 | 05:51 pm
England have won the Ashes series as they were expected to, though not by the margin many anticipated. They deserved their victory and everything that goes with this, including the congratulations of ...
March on Washington anniversary 24 Aug 2013 | 09:48 pm
On Wednesday it will be the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, at which Martin Luther King delivered his 'I Have a Dream' speech. Events to mark the anniversary have begun this weekend. Som...
Jack Geras 1912-2013 22 Aug 2013 | 02:59 am
My father died this afternoon. Out of respect for his memory I will be observing a brief silence here over the coming days. Last November, on his hundredth birthday, I posted this tribute. To mark his...
Chomsky wrecked 20 Aug 2013 | 09:54 pm
In a speech delivered recently in Germany, Noam Chomsky identifies the shortcomings, as he sees them, of '"really existing capitalist democracy", RECD for short, pronounced "wrecked" by accident'. Now...
HRW on Egypt 20 Aug 2013 | 09:31 pm
Human Rights Watch is saying that the use of lethal force by the Egyptian security apparatus in dispersing sit-ins has produced 'the most serious incident of mass unlawful killings in modern Egyptian ...
Does politics have any real purpose? 19 Aug 2013 | 08:46 pm
Geoffrey Wheatcroft asks: Does Labour have any real purpose any more? Or does politics? On the first of those two questions I could suggest something anodyne like: presenting itself as a credible pa...
The light side of book collecting 19 Aug 2013 | 08:09 pm
It being summer, and an Ashes summer at that, I have been spending a bit of time lately with my large collection of cricket books. Yesterday I happened to pull out an old anthology The Light Side of C...
Hitler, honorary citizen 19 Aug 2013 | 04:47 pm
I must say that in the way of bizarre arguments here's one I find particularly remarkable. The context of it is as follows: there are towns in Germany that 'still have Adolf Hitler on the rolls as an ...
