Post-Spoilerocalyptic. I went to see Dawn of the Planet of the Apes .  Banalities first:  A well-crafted film.  Cogent and coherent in te...

Israel is currently killing hundreds of people in Gaza.  As they do from time to time.  To make something Abba Eban once said true by simp...

Someone called 'Bright Coat and Bravado' (you can guess their favourite Doctor), posted this on tumblr.  Here's a snippet: I...

I was going to do this post all over again... (this is what we do with Palestine: say the same bloody things over and over again, because t...

The more I think about it, the more I think a humble, sympathetic, non-domineering, non-entryist engagement with the anti-oppression movemen...

At the time, the liberals and the left thought of World War II as a battle between civilisation and barbarism, between progress and reaction...

Bourgeois law sets up a system which seems, superficially, to draw its moral force from the common sense morality of ordinary people (in t...