Surpriza malkovro en Texel
My first article in Esperanto – for the website uea.facila.org, which is aimed at people learning the language (hence the short texts in simple Esperanto). I’ll bet that most people who’ve never studied Esperanto will…
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Prospects for the Israeli Left 2019
Presentation to Ideas for Freeedom, London, 22 June 2019 What are the prospects for the Israeli Left today? My short answer is: bleak. In Israel’s first elections following independence in 1949, over 50% of the…
In the fight for workers’ rights, there are no borders
The following is the text of my presentation to the international seminar held in Oslo this week by the Arthur Svensson foundation. First of all, I want to thank the Svensson foundation for the invitation…
Review: Homage to Catalonia, by George Orwell
I first read George Orwell’s account of his time in Spain many years ago, and now re-read in advance of a visit to Barcelona. I am actually writing this review from the hotel in which…
Review: Their Little Secret, by Mark Billingham
Their Little Secret, the latest in the Tom Thorne series of crime novels, offers further proof of why author Mark Billingham is probably the best crime writer in Britain today — and one of our…
All The World’s A Stage, by Boris Akunin
I read this book in the wrong order as it precedes Akunin’s Black City, which I recently completed. And it does set the stage (sorry – couldn’t resist) for the latter book, with Fandorin now…
Back to Linux
Several years back, I had a Linux laptop. But by around 2010 I had migrated to the Apple ecosystem, starting with an iPad, and left Linux behind. Now I’m back to Linux and let me…
Review: Black City, by Boris Akunin
Boris Akunin is the pseudonym for Grigory Chkhartishvili, one of the most successful crime writers ever to emerge from Russia. His series of books featuring Erast Fandorin span several decades of the late 19th and…
Review: The Battle, by Richard Overy
This book has now gone through several editions, and was recently re-issued with a slightly different title. It is a very short history of the Battle of Britain of 1940-41 and in just a few…
If we can’t get a new government, let’s get a new Left
The Israeli Left failed yesterday in its attempt to change the leadership and the direction of the country. Maybe it’s time to change the Left instead. And let’s learn a lesson from Israel’s history to…