Uncovering the Ignorance of the BBC’s Big Beastsby Ian SinclairMorning Star25 March 2021 Increasingly shared on Twitter, Andrew Marr’s 1996 interview with Noam Chomsky has become a well-known TV moment for many on the left. Over the course of 30 minutes discussing the politics of the media on BBC2’s The Big Idea, the seemingly unprepared […]
Book review. The New Corporation: How “Good” Corporations Are Bad For Democracy by Joel Bakanby Ian SinclairPeace NewsAugust-September 2021 Published in 2004 alongside the film documentary of the same name, Joel Bakan’s The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power was a timely and influential assault on the central institution of contemporary capitalism. Bakan […]
The Third Wave: A Timeline Of How We Got Hereby Ian SinclairMorning Star8 July 2020 “We’re seeing cases rise fairly rapidly – and there could be 50,000 cases detected per day by the 19 [July] and again as we predicted, we’re seeing rising hospital admissions”, Boris Johnson explained at a Downing Street press conference on […]
The importance of knowing our own strength: the anti-war movement and UK foreign policyby Ian SinclairMorning Star28 June 2021 Though considered an abject failure by many, the enormous anti-war movement against the 2003 Iraq War has had a number of long-lasting impacts on British politics and society. One unfortunate effect is, nearly 20 years later, […]
Catte Black Oh gosh, Matt Hancock is being outed as a sleazebag. Who knew, right? The Sun published pics purporting to be of him and his girlfriend kissing in an elevator and even the BBC thinks this is newsworthy. So this is serious now. You can sign off on mass murder all you like, Matt, …
“What is happening now was entirely predictable and predicted”: Deepti Gurdasani interviewby Ian SinclairMorning Star17 June 2021 With a third wave of the pandemic surging in the UK and hospital admissions rising, on Monday the Prime Minister announced a four-week delay to the lifting of all restrictions in England beyond 21 June. For weeks the […]
Why is the media obsessed with Russia interference in the UK, when the US influence is much bigger?by Ian SinclairMorning Star29-30 May 2021 In a discussion recorded in the indispensable 2002 book Understanding Power, Noam Chomsky points out “it was a very easy thing in the 1980s for people in the United States to denounce […]
A Timeline Of The Plague Yearby Ian SinclairMorning Star22 April 2021 To mark the one year anniversary of the first national lockdown, last month the Guardian published profiles of Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance and Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty. “The wealthy civil servant’s year of speaking truth to power”, was the title of […]
Where is the Left on Zero Covid?by Ian SinclairMorning Star9 April 2021 “There is… no credible route to a zero covid Britain or indeed a zero covid world”, Boris Johnson told the House of Commons on 22 February. “We cannot persist indefinitely with restrictions that debilitate our economy, our physical and mental well-being, and the […]
I have a new book out. Co-authored with Rupert Read (and edited by Joanna Booth) ‘A Timeline Of The Plague Year: A Comprehensive Record of the UK Government’s Response to the Coronavirus Crisis’ is, we think, the most comprehensive record of the UK government’s response to covid. Covering key aspects of the crisis, including the […]
