The World According to Bono
- April 15, 2016
- by
- Matt
I’ve got nothing against famous people getting involved in politics or embracing political causes. On the contrary, there’s no reason why the accident of fame and the weird cult of celebrity-worship that comes with it should place anyone above politics or preclude celebrities from taking moral and political positions on issues that...
Europe’s ‘Migration Crisis’ : Repression with a human face
- March 08, 2016
- by
- Matt
Many years ago Franco Solinas, the scriptwriter for Gillo Pontecorvo’s masterpiece The Battle of Algiers, was asked by an interviewer why the French colonel Mathieu – a pragmatic exponent of torture – was portrayed as ‘ too much of a gentleman in fatigues, excessively noble. He is elegant, cultured….’ Solinas replied that...
Hope I die before I get old
- March 06, 2016
- by
- Matt
There was a time when living longer was considered to be a desirable goal, and rising life expectancy was regarded as a metric of social progress. In those not so distant times, ‘developed’ capitalist societies and already existing socialist societies alike assumed that work was a preparation for an old age in which you...
Learn English! The Vicious Idiocy of David Cameron
- January 20, 2016
- by
- Matt
I have to admit that when I hear the word ‘integration’ coming from politicians nowadays, it makes me want to reach for my revolver. By integration, I don’t mean the term that British Home Secretary Roy Jenkins famously defined back in 1966 when he said:
‘ Integration is perhaps a loose word. I do...
Idiot Wind: Corbyn’s Fake Refuseniks
- January 07, 2016
- by
- Matt
If my inadvertent involvement in last year’s media onslaught against Stop the War taught me one thing: it was the incredible mendacity, political dishonesty and sheer venality of Jeremy Corbyn’s opponents inside the Labour Party. It is possible – within limits – to respect one’s political opponents when they uphold genuine principles that they...
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