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To a scholar, or I would have thought any educated person, the word ‘extremism’ doesn’t signify much. You can have an ‘extreme’ anything; even ‘extreme moderation’, if you’re willing to be pedantic about it (and a bit silly). Extremism is … Continue reading →

My doctors’ surgery in Stockholm. I suppose you could say that they shouldn’t be wasting their time with this sort of nonsense; but in Britain they wouldn’t have the time.

The NHS isn’t working. (This is in the UK.) The dental service isn’t working. The Home Office isn’t working (especially with regard to immigration). Local government isn’t working. The Police aren’t working (properly). The Army is grossly undermanned. Now we … Continue reading →

Rishi Sunak claims that he is ‘living proof that Britain isn’t a racist country’. That’s in connection with the current row over whether or not Lee Anderson MP’s claim that the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, is ‘controlled’ by militant Islamists, … Continue reading →

I think I can understand – and even empathise with – what’s in the minds of people in Europe and America who vote for right-wing, ‘populist’ parties these days. Not necessarily in the minds of their leaders, who may be … Continue reading →

Britain can be a very cruel country. One current example of this is the continued incarceration of Julian Assange, about whom I have blogged at length in the past; based partly on my expertise in secret service history, and partly … Continue reading →

It looks as though the two main issues on which the Tories intend to fight the next UK election, whenever that is (the precise date is in the gift of the prime minister), are (1) cross-Channel refugee immigration – ‘Stop … Continue reading →

The USA is widely considered to be – or at least to have once been – an ‘imperialist’ power; and  deservedly so, as I’ve related in my book Empire and Superempire: Britain, America and the World (2006). This is despite … Continue reading →

According to his tax return, revealed yesterday (to show he was paying tax), Rishi Sunak earned £2.2 million last year. ‘Earned’? That seems an odd word to use, for an income coming mainly from investments; and taxed at a lower … Continue reading →

Well, I shouldn’t have worried. (See my previous post.) The book came through, and on the appointed day. Of course it may still have been the Israel/Palestine issue that very marginally delayed it; viz those ‘related items’. But I could … Continue reading →