The Guardian’s Attempt to Save the White Helmets

The Guardian’s Attempt to Save the White Helmets

Joseph Goebbels, whose name is synonymous with the ‘art’ of propaganda, once opined, “It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle.” Propaganda – the spreading of false or misleading information in order to further a political or ideological cause –…

The Charge of the Light Brigade – Britain Goes Full Circle on Russophobia

The Charge of the Light Brigade – Britain Goes Full Circle on Russophobia

The classic British anti-war film The Charge of the Light Brigade will be fifty years old next year. Who would have thought the crude Russophobia of the 1850s, which Tony Richardson expertly satirized, would be back in vogue half a century later? The idea history is cyclical and not linear is probably not disproved by…

It Has Never Been So Good

It Has Never Been So Good

One Hundred years after the Balfour Declaration – what is actually going on in Palestine? I’d like to say that Palestine is burning and Israel suffers, but the truth must be told: Israel and Palestine are prospering under Netanyahu. It has never been so good. The minimum wage on the Israeli side is now over…

The Balfour Declaration – One Hundred Years of (Goyim) Solitude

The Balfour Declaration – One Hundred Years of (Goyim) Solitude

In Heidegger and the Jews, the French philosopher Jean-Francois Lyotard points out that history claims to narrate the past but, in practice, what it does is conceal our collective shame. The Americans conceal slavery and imperial genocidal aggression, the Brits conceal their colonial blunders, the Jews turn their eyes away from anything that may have…