and the muted voice
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Brief account of my (and others) court hearing under Terrorism Act 2000
Yesterday, I was one of a number of people who had their plea hearing at Westminster Magistrates Court – that is, to formally plead either ‘guilty’ or ‘not guilty’ – in respect of charges brought under Section13 of the Terrorism Act 2000. Statement denied I aimed to make a statement to the court before entering Continue reading
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Pro-Palestinian and Israel-critical voices silenced at the behest of a fragile ‘may’
It’s that word ‘may’ that tells you something fishy is going on. Something not quite right. Where the need is for certainty, for assurance that an idea, definition or policy can stand on its own two feet, ‘may’ suggests uncertainty, even evasiveness. A ‘may’ in a sentence prompts the thought, ‘well, maybe not’. Odd, then, Continue reading
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‘Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today’
To cut to the chase: I hold that a society or culture entrapped by a perpetual need to achieve, to endlessly generate quantifiable outputs, to obsessively ‘progress’ – slippery term that – is a society most likely to exhaust and dispirit its members. For rather too long, that’s pretty much the position that has been Continue reading
About Me
This is Bernard Spiegal’s blog.
I write mainly about Palestine/Israel and related issues; sometimes other stuff too
Bernard Spiegal 