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The degree to which the far Right in both the US and Britain hate public services is difficult to overstate. Currently its ire is being directed against the BBC, occasioned by a 2024 Panorama report which spliced together two sections … Continue reading →

If my pet theory is sound – that most of the alarming events in the world today are symptoms of the ‘natural’ and perhaps even inevitable ‘evolution of capitalism’ in its later stages – there’s plenty of circumstantial evidence around … Continue reading →

The UK Education Secretary has just announced a reform of the English national school curriculum to include more on the Arts, and to incorporate the teaching of ‘Critical Thinking’ in order to make children aware of fake news and propaganda. … Continue reading →

Just occasionally I question the decision I took after the Brexit vote to make Sweden my main home, and to take on Swedish citizenship, in order to be part of the EU again. My doubts stem from the rise of … Continue reading →

‘I love the poorly educated’, said Donald Trump a few years ago (https://www.politico.com/video/2016/02/donald-trump-i-love-the-poorly-educated-044575). And of course Trump himself is poorly educated. Is that one of the factors behind his political success? And, incidentally, behind his assault on top American universities? … Continue reading →

Just to say that my KCom email still doesn’t work, despite the best efforts of the technical experts at KCom in Hull, and of the young people at the ‘Genius Desk’ in the bright, futuristic and friendly Apple Center in … Continue reading →

You’ll have seen those ridiculous MAGA videos that have been aired on the internet recently. The first showed a post-war Gaza transformed into a piece of prime sea-front real estate, with a huge golden statue of Donald Trump bestriding it … Continue reading →

Just to say, to anyone reading this who may have been trying to contact me, or expecting a message from me (Ragnar Boman, for example), that my email (bernard.porter@kajsa.karoo.co.uk) is no longer working. Why I don’t know. It was working … Continue reading →

Sorry for the recent gap in this blog, but I’ve been in hospital (nothing serious), and on a visit to England with Kajsa to see my children and grandchildren. We elected to travel by train and boat to help save … Continue reading →

If ‘Tommy Robinson’s’ great demo in central London on Saturday was designed to alert people to the popularity of his cause, it worked with me. No matter that the ‘million’ protestors that he had asked for beforehand turned out to … Continue reading →