Conspiracy theories can be harmless or they can be the opposite. In the main, conspiracy theories are stories which try to create meaning in an often meaningless world. They try to impose order on chaos. Sometimes, they assign blame. The Earth is flat. The moon landing was faked. Paul McCartney is dead. Birds aren’t real. Governments are seeding chemicals in the atmosphere using chemtrails. Area 51 in Nevada is where the remains of space aliens are kept. Those are among the m

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Ten years ago, getting ready to open for Palma Violets. Time moves fast, Virginia.

Got a call from my publisher last night. They are now doing another print run of books! Many thanks to all of you who have picked it up.

With all due respect to cabinet ministers: you folks come and go. Limousines and expense accounts notwithstanding, most of you are forgettable. Sorry. But Prime Ministers are a different matter. You only get one Prime Minister per government. Theirs are the names inscribed on history’s pages. Your team’s fate, good or bad, is inescapably tied to the PM. In our system of government, no one else matters nearly as much. Which is why the job of every Minister and staffer is prett

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• Amazon has it at number one again - see above - on a couple of their lists. Grateful for that. • The excerpting of the book in The Free Press - circulation, two million, give or take - has kicked off all kinds of interest for it in the U.S. Grateful for that, as well. • The Australian, the biggest paper down under, plans to excerpt it as well. Grateful, Aussies. • The documentary The Campaign, based on the book, is getting its debut at the Tel Aviv International Documentary

Why is Palestine Action allowed to operate in Canada? Why? It’s an important question. A British court this week heard about what Palestine Action did on August 6, 2024. On that date, red-suited members of Palestine Action broke into Israeli-owned Elbit Systems in Bristol, England. They’d broken in using a decommissioned prison van as a battering ram, in the middle of the night. The prosecutor, Deanna Heer KC, told Woolwich Town Court: “Inside the warehouse, they set about de