Author Archives: bernardporter2013

Is this Trump’s war? Or Netanyahu’s? – It does seem to be more rational from the latter’s point of view, and in line with his thinking for many years. (Trump keeps changing his rationale, which suggests that for him the … Continue reading →

Why is Trump at war with Iran? – Which raises the broader question: what are his motives for almost anything he does? With regard to Iran there are several possibilities, some of them stated, others not. They are: regime change; … Continue reading →

No liberal can feel any regret over the demise of Iran’s Supreme Leader, if he really was as ‘evil’ as Trump claims he was. (I have no reason to doubt that; but we know how persuasive false propaganda can be … Continue reading →

As a very long-time Labour voter, and occasional member, I’m nonetheless delighted by the result of yesterday’s Gorton and Denton by-election; won convincingly by the newly resurgent Green Party, with Labour plodding along in third place. The Tories were slaughtered; … Continue reading →

You can see why Putin so often characterises Russia’ s enemies as ‘Nazis’. The label immediately provokes revulsion; except of course among Neo-Nazis, who the Russian President seems to think are more influential – in Ukraine, the Baltic States (see … Continue reading →

The British Empire was not all aggression, exploitation and racism, although it was very largely that. It also had a more idealistic side to it, which was why many liberal-thinking Britons supported it at the time. Some of them were … Continue reading →

If the USA goes to war with Britain and her allies over tariffs and Greenland, it will be the second time this has happened in history. The first was the ‘War of 1812’, between the newly-minted USA and British Empire … Continue reading →

I used to read science fiction for entertainment, and for cerebral stimulation. By ‘science fiction’ I don’t mean all that Star Wars stuff – ‘Cowboys and Indians’ transposed to a different time and place; but the sort that makes you … Continue reading →

I’m not a great fan of Keir Starmer’s, my main gripe with him having been over his re-categorisation of ‘Palestine Action’ as a ‘terrorist’ movement in August last year. Noisily demonstrating, holding up incendiary placards and even daubing planes with … Continue reading →

In Europe Anarchism was (and is?) usually associated with the political Left. In the modern USA, however, it is definitely a thing of the Right. Unfettered free market capitalism is an essentially anarchist ideology, whether free market capitalists want to … Continue reading →