Bob Pitt

Masha and the Bear — agents of Russian state terrorism? Not content with demolishing statues and monuments celebrating Alexander Pushkin, Isaac Babel and Larisa Shepitko, Ukrainian advocates of…

It appears that the defence of freedom and democracy in Ukraine is not without its contradictions.
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David Icke and the alien Jewish lizards: Lessons for the Left Understandably, there has been some adverse reaction to this Facebook post, claiming that the BBC and the mainstream media generally are…

Alright, the title of this article is a bit tongue in cheek. And the subject matter – David Icke's deluded belief that the world is secretly controlled by alien lizards – is always good for a laugh. But I'm making a serious point here, comrades. I think.

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Are the Greens on course to replace Labour? Zack Polanski thinks so Here is Green Party leader Zack Polanski celebrating a Find Out Now poll which has the Greens level with Labour, on 15% each. Zack presents…

Is the Green Party about to replace Labour? Sadly, no.
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Is Moscow preparing for war with NATO? Or NATO with Moscow? Is the Russian Federation preparing to attack NATO? Apparently so, according to a lengthy analysis by Pavel Aksenov and Ilya Abishev. It…

Long article. Short version: Putin doesn't plan to invade Europe, the MiGs' incursion into Estonian airspace was likely accidental, the incident opened up a division in NATO over whether to risk nuclear war by pursuing a military confrontation with Russia.
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Anti-Muslim hate in London: These are the foreigners who really need to be kept out Here are some examples of Islamophobic extremists from outside the UK who spoke at the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally on 13 September, organised…

This is based on a briefing I wrote about the most extreme anti-Muslim speeches at the 'Unite the Kingdom' rally.

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The ‘Russian drone attack’ on Poland: An overview A week has passed since the Russian “attack” on Poland during the night of 9–10 September. During that time the details have become…

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Rock to the rescue: I Can See For Miles and Pete Townshend’s bid to save popular music The Who’s Pete Townshend didn’t take well to late-’60s hippie culture, or at least to its impact on pop music. In a 1993 interview with…

Latest in an occasional series of articles on popular beat combos from the 1960s.

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Corbyn and the mural (one last time) Given that it is over seven years since the controversy over Jeremy Corbyn and that mural kicked off big time, you might have thought it…

Over the past year or so I've researched and partly written a number of articles that I never got round to finishing. So I thought I'd make the effort to complete some of them. Here's the first. It's yet another article on Corbyn and the mural. The last one, I promise.

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SOCIS poll for the next presidential election in Ukraine. In the first round Zelensky has a narrow lead over Zaluzhny. In the second round Zaluzhny would defeat Zelensky by 60.5% to 39.5%. I think we can assume Zelensky will not be calling an election any time soon.

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Zelensky and his fascist friends At the end of last month Volodymyr Zelensky visited the Book Arsenal Festival in Kyiv, where he was presented with a copy of a book titled…

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The EHRC’s transphobic misreading of the Supreme Court judgment Labour MP Tony Vaughan has written to Equalities and Human Rights Commission chair Baroness Falkner, calling on the EHRC to withdraw its…

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What are Zelensky's approval ratings? In December his net trust rating slumped to +13% (52% trust, 39% distrust) compared with +55% in Dec 2023. This month it recovered slightly to +20% (57% trust, 37% distrust). But that's way down on May 2022 when his net rating was +83% (90% trust, 7% distrust).

Will there be a fascist coup in Kyiv? With Donald Trump apparently intent on pulling the plug on US support for the Ukrainian government in its war with Russia, a peace…

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US imperialism and Assad: A grand plan for regime change? (Part One) Last week not everyone was celebrating the overthrow of one of the world’s most hated dictators. Jonathan Cook wrote an article for Middle…

Was the overthrow of Assad the realisation of a longstanding imperialist plot? Jonathan Cook thinks so.

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The Salisbury poisonings and the idiocies of Craig Murray The Dawn Sturgess Inquiry finally got under way last month. As you would expect, the proceedings initially concentrated on the specific…

Craig Murray and his Skripal conspiracy theories, in light of evidence provided to the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry.

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