Aqua Car with watermelon umbrella. Photograph by Lies On Real needs and wants, not “money votes”, should determine what is produced and innovated. by Phil Hall In a classic 1951 British Ealing Studios satire called The Man in the White Suit, starring Sir Alec Guinness, Guinness plays Sidney Stratton, a research chemist working at…

Official portrait, 2026. Photograph Alecsandra Dragoi, No 10 Downing Street, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons Dear Andy Burnham, I suppose becoming Prime Minister is something that you really worked hard for. And you, a realist and a good communicator, have quite an admirable track record on some things. Apparently you did well as the mayor…

Yemeni Jews leaving to Aden. Photograph Zoltan Kluger by Richard Steinhardt If state-building anywhere is a process of political alchemy, that process is already forging a real society on the ground. Even at this late stage, stripped of Zionism, its ‘white’ identity and its servitude to American imperial interests, Israel can transform into a…

Photo by Andrew Appolonov Russia’s goal is a new security architecture, not a mere victory over Ukraine by Richard Steinhardt In a war of attrition, Ukraine is Russia’s cauldron designed to destroy NATO. The war has taken over four years so far. Logically this long war makes no immediate sense if the objective was…

Trump & Boris. Illustration by Martin Rowson, published in the Tribune A CONVERSATION WITH MARTIN ROWSON – with Paul Halas and Phil Hall Martin Rowson’s political cartoons started appearing in the national press in the 1980s, and he’s been metaphorically eviscerating the great, the good and the very bad ever since. He was appointed…

Image prompted by Phil Hall Dealing with the Ontological Shock Something real did happen! The object was first detected on July 1, 2025 by the ATLAS telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile. Avi Loeb, as an eminent scientist and rationalist, does not like science fiction. But it was Arthur C. Clarke who thought up the…

Fuchsia coloured Clematis. Photograph Phil Hall The nature and meaning of colour, and its use by capitalism and imperialism as an instrument of power and control by Phil Hall When you walk into Chapel Matisse in Vence, or Chapelle du Rosaire, the experience is a powerful one. The blue and yellow colours radiate in…

On the set of Memoir of a Snail. Still by kind permission of ArenaMedia INTERVIEWED BY PAUL HALAS & PHIL HALL Kerry Drumm has variously been an animator, designer, illustrator, film archivist, production coordinator, screenwriter, playwright and children’s book author… in fact when I first familiarised myself with her body of work I thought,…

The Ukrainian nationalist crowd milling about Union House in Odessa/Odesa after the fire on 2 May 2014. ‘Remember Katyn!’ is written on the notice board next to the building which was set on fire, penning up and murdering 42 anti-Maidan protestors. Photograph HOBOPOCC Or How the Capitalist Ruling Class Tries to Destroy Our Ability…