...like a great power scorned. The siege of Julian Assange is a farce. The Americans are pursuing him because WikiLeaks exposed their epic crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq.
It's celebrity time again. The Golden Globes have been, and the Oscars are coming. Time to award those whose ubiquitous promotion demands recognition
The election campaign in Australia is being fought with the lives of men, women and children.
Understanding the latest leaks is understanding the rise of a new fascism
The new propaganda is liberal. The new slavery is digital
A state of permanent war has been launched by the United States and a police state is consuming western democracy.
Look on the Wikileaks site and read a Ministry of Defence document that describes the “threat” of real journalism. And so it should be: a threat. State stenography is not journalism.
Put aside the reading lists in the newspaper review pages, with their clubbable hauteur, and read, or read again, books which help make sense of extraordinary times
The word that once described it, class, is unmentionable, just as imperialism used to be. Thanks to George W Bush, the latter is back in the lexicon in Britain, if not at the BBC. But Class is different. It runs too deep
It as if our long trail of blood is forever invisible, intellectually and morally. Certainly, it is time those who run media colleges began to alert future journalists to their insidious grooming.
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