FireChat: Yet another spurious techno-panacea
Almost every day we hear about some new “revolutionary” technology that is going to make the world a more open, transparent, and better place.
Almost every day we hear about some new “revolutionary” technology that is going to make the world a more open, transparent, and better place.
I have just received an email message from 38 Degrees, an online campaigning organization in the UK that claims to have three million members of which, apparently, I am one. The subject line is “Islamic…
Ukraine to many Jews conjures up bad memories – pogroms, collaboration with Nazis, anti-Semitism spanning centuries. So when Russian President Putin claims that Nazis have come to power in a putsch in Kiev, we take…
In an otherwise excellent piece on the TUC’s passing of an idiotic resolution on Ukraine, Dale Street writes that “for the first time since the Second World War the territory of a European country has…
The decisions taken yesterday by Britain’s Trade Union Congress (TUC) on the subject of Palestine mark the end of an era.
This article also appears on Harry’s Place, Howie’s Corner, Solidarity (Workers’ Liberty) and Shiraz Socialist. I have just come back from attending a large demonstration in central London protesting the rise of anti-Semitism in the…
The news this week out of South Africa could hardly have been worse. Tony Ehrenreich, provincial secretary of the Western Cape branch of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), was accused by Jewish…
Britain’s trade unions were not always hostile to Israel. One doesn’t have to go back very far to remember a time when they would invite representatives from the Histadrut to speak at union conferences. And…
I recently read Dave Eggers’ new novel, The Circle, which describes a world in which a Facebook-Google-like company takes over people’s lives and brings about a complete end to privacy. Some would describe the book…
Three hours after the end of the 72-hour ceasefire, Israeli finally retaliated with air strikes. Hamas missiles were fired at a range of different target’s in southern parts of Israel. The BBC headline at the…