May 29, 2010

No Comfort for Gilad Shalit: the mean-spirited face of "humanitarian" aid to Gaza

Under different circumstances, the notion of sailing across the seas to bring aid to a beleaguered p...

May 25, 2010

The Guardian's "Nonsense in King Charles' Head"

First a story – a short excerpt from Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield: “….. ‘...

May 19, 2010

Sic transit Georgina Henry

I sometimes wonder whether there is such an entity as a journalist’s mind (and I mean other th...

April 25, 2010

SPEAKING OUT AGAINST BIG LIES

It began, as it so often does in the Western media, with opinions, unverified and sometimes delibera...

March 25, 2010

"Envy is the ulcer of the soul" – Source unknown

In spite of the rubbish peddled recently on CiF as evidence of the folie-a-deux between Georgina Hen...

March 20, 2010

The Editor and the Blog- A Grim Fairy Tale

Once upon a time there was an Editor of a department in a national newspaper who wanted to run a pol...

March 11, 2010

Why was this deleted?

From the Abe Hayeem thread today: Before… After… TheShermanator is a reasoned and intell...

February 10, 2010

A Drowning Blog Clutching at a Straw Man?

CiF is running out of Israel-bashing arguments.  Yigal Bronner’s article is proof.  I read i...

January 31, 2010

The Guardian is still telling lies

It is always heart-rending to see the suffering of civilians, and particularly that of children, in ...

January 28, 2010

Is Councillor Kelly's record stuck?

Following on from  my account of the rantings of Councillor Terry Kelly, hilarious, saddening and s...