Matthew Carr's Blog, page 58

Sheridan in Gaza: the Palestinians as ‘Indians’

Despite the growing media criticism of Israel during the Gaza ‘conflict,’ there is still a general refusal or reluctance amongst mainstream journalists to acknowledge or analyse the broader strategic logic of Israeli violence.   Too often, journalists accept the dominant Israeli … Continue reading →

British values for British toddlers!

It’s probably a good thing the Telegraph saved a headline like ‘ Toddlers at risk from extremism’ for mid-summer, when millions of Britons are cooking themselves into a state of somnolent stupefaction on Mediterranean beaches or Dordogne hideaways, or taking … Continue reading →

The Night the Lights Went Out

I didn’t join in the Lights Out remembrance on Monday night, though I’m told that our town looked pretty with the single lights or candles glowing in the darkness, and photographs show that the nation also looked beautiful  throughout the … Continue reading →

The Wisdom of Ayan Hirsi Ali

Whatever you think of Benjamin Netanyahu – and readers of this site will know very well what I think of him – even the most fervent supporters of the Israeli blitz of Gaza have not proposed that he should be … Continue reading →

Israel and Gaza: Sexy Cool Genocide

In 1955 the dovish Israeli prime minister Moshe Sharett wrote in his diary that his countrymen had transformed revenge into a ‘sacred principle’ and worried that such tendencies ‘ must make the State appear in the eyes of the world … Continue reading →

The Prime Minister of Deportations

Proving once again his commitment to defending the nation’s borders from the benefit-seeking migrant hordes,  David Cameron has posed for photographs at a Slough house from which four Albanians suspected of illegal immigration had just been arrested by Britain’s intrepid … Continue reading →

The friends of Israel: united in blood

Even by the standards we have come to expect from Israel’s powerful supporters, yesterday’s speech by the senior White House Susan Rice was a sickening demonstration of intellectual dishonesty and mealy-mouthed hypocrisy.   At a public ‘solidarity’ meeting convened by Jewish … Continue reading →

Special Agent Philip Hammond: Our Man in Jerusalem

Years ago, as an undergraduate history student at SOAS, I wrote an essay on the Balfour declaration and the British role in the formation of the state of Israel for Professor Malcolm Yapp.  Professor Yapp kindly gave me an ‘A+’ … Continue reading →

Birmingham’s student suspensions: policing the business university

Student protests have traditionally been regarded with a certain condescending disdain in British society, as though they were some kind of privileged youthful extension of rag week, that can be tolerated but not taken entirely seriously. So this week’s announcement … Continue reading →

Gaza Unbowed

After more than two weeks of relentless violence that has cost more than 600 Palestinian lives and thousands of wounded, it is becoming increasingly clear that Israel’s savage assault on the Gaza Strip has not been successful even on its … Continue reading →