Politics and its Discontents

I haven't been writing much these days, in part due to a stubborn bug I've been battling, and in part because I often wonder if th...

When (s)he is a 'replacement worker'. I have always loved the word 'scab'. A fitting description of strikebreakers, it is ...

With conventional media fighting an ever-growing juggernaut of fake news, news that is either outright lie or gross distortion, two natio...

Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness. Defenceless villages are bombard...