I've said before, many times, we used to live in a world of 3/4/5 TV channels, current affairs got peak time slots (Panorama and World in Action), newspapers were profitable, serious, and well s… (View Post)

There is a level of ignorance that is honestly perplexing, because it used to be in the news all the time; bombings, hijackings, assassinations, Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank, various summits and dea… (View Post)

That doesn't suprise me. Social media is overwhelmingly pro-Palestine, and full of people asking who is Yasser Arafat, who are the PLO, and what is a Hezbollah. 9/11 seems to have erased almost … (View Post)

How many people in the West know anything about the Taiping Rebellion? Hardly anybody does, yet it may be the second or third largest conflict in human history, and it was every bit as murderous as t… (View Post)

This whole reporting what both sides say only works if both sides are peers. Hamas is not a peer of the Israeli government. It's the same sort of trap where you have a news programme where a cli… (View Post)