Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Labour's share

One star down — Banksy

Hamas in 2017

"According to ONS data, the less well-off (the poorest fifth)  pay a higher slice of their total income (38%) in tax  than the most wealthy (top fifth of earners) in Britain." Quoted by the BBC This is not considered a crime in Britain; it is defended as part of "the free market, liberal democracy" and "our values".

 "The British position - and that of many other nations - was to forge closer ties with the Myanmar government, while doing next to nothing for the Rohingya Muslims."  The Muslim Rohingya of Myanmar and Some humans have more rights than others

Compare tuition fees around the world Sorbonne at $280

New Atheists enthusiastically, and often unintentionally, promote western imperialism

@the British Library, London The Russian Revolution and if you haven't seen this masterpiece ...

Britain "The post-Brexit Tory vote is contradictory. The economically nationalist petty bourgeois voter has little in common with the affluent swing voters currently favoring May against Labour or the discredited Liberals. The business and financial class condensed in the Tory leadership is remote from the concerns of grassroots Conservatives. Such broad coalitions forged in these moments of crisis can last, but only if the political and economic situation begins to stabilize." That's a crucial "if". Back to the 1930s with Theresa May

The mediocrity of Chomsky's replies are shocking! A correspondence with Noam Chomsky

Attacks on "populism" seek to enshrine the idea that there is no alternative

Here we shall remain, a wall upon your chests, And in your throats A sliver of glass, a cactus thorn; In your eyes A fiery storm (…) We will guard the shade of our fig and olive trees, Implant thoughts that will grow like yeast in dough. (…) A burning hell rages in our hearts, The walls of the tank: on Palestinian resistance

France An X-ray of a shattered vote