Category: Columns
Geoff has written for publications as diverse as PC User and The Northern Star His weekly columns have been a source of humour and inspiration for tens of thousands of readers and his mailbox is always full.
Here you can find his more recent contributions.
JohnJames /1 June, 2015
The John James Newsletter 45 14 February 2015 How Many Jews Died in the German Concentration Camps? It has been a common belief that about six million Jews died in the camps. Most laymen presume this was proven at Nuremberg in 1946. The international court did not prove anything of the sort, however, and historians Continue Reading →
JohnJames /1 June, 2015
The John James Newsletter 61 23 May 2015- Paros Israel has for years worked to remove Assad with US support it has encouraged Assad’s enemies, including IS now that IS controls Palmyra, the “pearl” of the desert, the most intact 2,000 years old monument to ancient Rome, should its imminent destruction be blamed on Israel, Continue Reading →
JohnJames /1 June, 2015
The John James Newsletter 46 21 February 2015 I can’t run no more with that lawless crowd while the killers in high places say their prayers out loud. But they’ve summoned, they’ve summoned up a thundercloud and they’re going to hear from me. Leonard Cohen in “There is a crack, a crack in everything – Continue Reading →
JohnJames /1 June, 2015
The John James Newsletter 62 30 May 2015- Positano If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear George Orwell Stupid Australia: Brain drain leaves economy less able to compete The country that brought you refrigerators, black-box flight recorders, bionic ears and Wi-Fi will Continue Reading →
JohnJames /1 June, 2015
The John James Newsletter 47 23 February 2015 Americans are too underinformed to digest information that contradicts what they already know. The media prefers to feed Americans a constant stream of simplified information so they do not have to devote more air time or newsprint to explanations or further investigations. This has infantilized the American Continue Reading →
JohnJames /1 June, 2015
The John James Newsletter 48 28 February 2015 The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate objectivity so entirely from its media – much less dissent. Gore Vidal I have a question: I have been told Continue Reading →