by Heather Hastie | Nov 21, 2018 | Great Britain & Europe, International Politics, Tweets, US Politics
It’s been a while, so I thought I should at least attempt a Tweets Post. There are a couple of things to catch you up on in my personal life. Firstly, things are much better now I have a decent chair. However, the damage done while I was waiting for that to...
by Heather Hastie | Nov 4, 2018 | Terrorism, US Politics
If you’re a Trump supporter, you’re probably thinking this will be a liberal hit piece. However, my conclusion has the support of all the data. Many commentators, including myself, have been writing about the dangers of Trump’s hateful rhetoric for some time. On...
by Heather Hastie | Oct 18, 2018 | Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Middle East, US Politics
Each day for the last couple of weeks, I’ve been tweaking a post about Jamal Khashoggi. The post never quite gets to the completion stage, and developments overnight mean much of the post is redundant. Now, the story has been headline news for so long, as it...
by Heather Hastie | Sep 27, 2018 | US Politics, USA, Women
The final section of my last post, ‘Kavanaugh Conformation and Ford Accusation’, was “There’s Never Just One Victim”. (Of course, there were two in that post – Christine Blasey Ford and Debbie Ramirez.) It included a tweet from...
by Heather Hastie | Sep 24, 2018 | US Politics, USA, Women
For days I’ve been trying to write a post about Professor Christine Blasey Ford’s allegation that Judge Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when the two were teens. And for days I’ve been deleting everything I wrote and starting again. I want to...
