Special rapporteurs tend to be polemicists, strongly committed to one side in a conflict. (View Post)

Raz Segal uses the term very loosely, due to his extreme partisanship on Israel/Palestine. (View Post)

I view UN Special Rapporteurs as being on a par with Post Office senior managers. (View Post)

The US is the real mystery to me. A great economy, fabulously wealthy, immensely powerful, yet with life expectancy down to 73, and large parts of it that look like Jaywick or the most rundown bits o… (View Post)

If one can persuade oneself one is “punching up”, one can be out and proud about one’s own bigotry. (View Post)