Interview With Bertrand Russell

Newcastle, Co. Down, Ireland, 1900

 Mountains of Mourne in the background.

The Sordid Story of the Most Successful Political Party in the World

Sordid is the word. For 'British' read 'English'.

'Even as print numbers nose-dive, the chasm in readership and influence is huge. The Tory press’s combined daily circulation is 6.8 million copies, over seven times the sum of The Guardian and Daily Mirror’s. The disparity narrows a bit on the internet, but it’s still pronounced: 131 million online monthly reads versus 61 million. And even these figures don’t reflect their different abilities to set the political weather. In the name of neutrality, the BBC’s news content is largely based on what the national press reports, and so its agenda is then reflected in the BBC’s own coverage, which filters down to its massive monthly online readership, peaking at 1.5 billion views in March, 2021.' Link

Greenpeace activists climb fence and paint plane green to protest air travel

Loyalists Withdraw Support For Good Friday Agreement

Migrants Flooding US Border Shelters

Lighthouse Hill - Edward Hopper

 

Covid - China Leads Way in Vaccine Push

Moonlight, Sahara Desert

 

Capitol Riot Investigation

Federal investigators are looking at communications between members of Congress and the pro-Trump mob that attacked the US Capitol, an official says https://t.co/AzAyTSeYkm

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) March 4, 2021

US Culture Wars

Iraq - Rocket Attack On US Troop Base

Last Snow by Wilhelm Purvitis

 

Budget UK 2021

The Chancellor’s spending plans imply that going into this year’s Spending Review, unprotected departments (outside of health, schools, defence and aid) are facing real-terms cuts to their budget. #Budget2021 pic.twitter.com/rFAqkhR9Km

— Institute for Fiscal Studies (@TheIFS) March 3, 2021

Schrodinger's Scotland

 

Afghanistan - Rise in Civilian Casualties

Daybreak, Thaw (1897) - Josef Rapacki

 

Sarkozy's Rolex Republic

"This is clearly a landmark ruling," says our politics editor @mperelman #Sarkozy pic.twitter.com/nwK8qXYnj1

— FRANCE 24 English (@France24_en) March 1, 2021

The Demise of the Tories - Gerry Hassan

'British conservatism’s intellectual and political debasement has been a long time brewing but the inept politics of Cameron, May and Johnson, along with Brexit and COVID-19, have brought it to the fore. But the decline has been long and deep, masked by the built-in advantages of the Tories – a right-wing press, business support, huge financial backers, and an often inept Labour opposition who were even wary of making the political weather in thirteen years of Blair-Brown government.' Read More

Donald Trump - Le Retour