The Truth Matters Also

I beseech you, dear reader, to read Jonathan Capehart’s brave and noble piece in the Washington Post about the shooting of Michael Brown by officer Darren Wilson. The US Justice Department released two reports this week, one into the shooting, and one with a wider remit looking into policing in Ferguson. The latter found a […]

Call for political action to Free Raif Badawi and Waleed Abu Al-Khair

Call for political action to Free Raif Badawi and Waleed Abu Al-Khair.

Spare a Thought for Kenji Goto

I recommend watching the Sky News interview with the ISIS defector who witnessed the murder of Japanese journalist Kenji Goto, who was killed by Mohammed Emwazi. The defector’s job was to provide hostages with reassurances, in order to keep them calm. They would do many mock executions, complete with speeches, so that the hostage would […]

A Brief Eulogy

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of […]