Month: January 2013

By David Cromwell A crucial element of pro-Israel political lobbying is the reprehensible smearing of justified criticism of the Israeli state as ‘antisemitic’. Thus, a recent cartoon by Gerald Scarfe in the Sunday Times provided →

By: David Edwards   January 21, ‘Orwell Day’, marked the 63rd anniversary of George Orwell’s death, Steven Poole notes in the Guardian. To commemorate 110 years since Orwell was born (June 25), BBC radio will →

The General, The Media Adulation And The Forgotten Victims By David Cromwell   One measure of a society’s honesty is what it says about its political and military leaders when they die. Are the deceased →