The War on Drivel

Notes on a credulous age

Menu
Skip to content
  • Polemics from Ogreville
  • A Struggle for Culture
  • Declaration of War
  • Adam Barnett

Tag: Syria

Spare us the Christmas piety: Syrians are being killed and no-one cares

  • Posted on March 18, 2021
  • Polemics from Ogreville

First published on December 27, 2019, on Medium The tradition of the “Christmas message”, where politicians offer a seasonal thought for the day, ought to be scrapped for its CO2 emissions alone. Instead, the head of a jet-setting royal family bores on about climate change,…

Continue Reading

A Private War?

  • Posted on May 2, 2019June 24, 2019
  • A Struggle for Culture

This article was originally published in Progress on April 11th, 2019. As windy talk of a ‘truly global Britain’ fades away, a recent film makes the case for international solidarity – though less by its merits than its flaws. ‘A Private War’ is a dramatisation…

Continue Reading

Chemical Brothers: Salisbury and Idlib are part of the same global war

  • Posted on September 17, 2018September 17, 2018
  • Polemics from Ogreville

It’s easy to laugh at the pathetic cover story offered by Russian heavies Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov for why they were in Salisbury at exactly the same time a former Russian spy was being poisoned with a deadly nerve agent. In Britain, their interview…

Continue Reading
© Copyright 2022 – The War on Drivel
Chip Life Theme by TutorialChip ⋅ Powered by WordPress