Rock to the rescue: I Can See For Miles and Pete Townshend’s bid to save popular music
The Who’s Pete Townshend didn’t take well to late-’60s hippie culture, or at least to its impact on pop music.…
Author: bobpitt
Corbyn and the mural (one last time)
Given that it is over seven years since the controversy over Jeremy Corbyn and that mural kicked off big time,…
Zelensky and his fascist friends
At the end of last month Volodymyr Zelensky visited the Book Arsenal Festival in Kyiv, where he was presented with…
The EHRC’s transphobic misreading of the Supreme Court judgment
Labour MP Tony Vaughan has written to Equalities and Human Rights Commission chair Baroness Falkner, calling on the EHRC to withdraw…
Will there be a fascist coup in Kyiv?
With Donald Trump apparently intent on pulling the plug on US support for the Ukrainian government in its war with…
The Salisbury poisonings and the idiocies of Craig Murray
The Dawn Sturgess Inquiry finally got under way last month. As you would expect, the proceedings initially concentrated on the specific circumstances…
Has Starmer been bought by Israel?
Over the four years since he was elected Labour Party leader, I’ve lost count of the times I’ve read on…
Churchill and Tonypandy: Who was responsible for sending in the troops?
A while back I wrote a long article (“Churchill and Tonypandy: Did he really shoot down striking miners?”) analysing Winston Churchill’s…
Has the Labour front bench ‘taken almost £650,000 from private health companies’?
Back in the day I used to spend quite a lot of time (probably more than was strictly necessary) debunking…
Stephen Fry, Israel’s war on Gaza, and antisemitism in the UK today
Channel 4’s “Alternative Christmas Message” for 2023 was presented by Stephen Fry, and addressed the subject of the rise in antisemitic…