"The generality of Seymour's conclusion, the broad sweep of his argument and the passion of his attack are overstated, dissipating their force. More nuance and context could have made this potentially important book compelling. It is a shame, as buried in these pages and their footnotes is a great d...

My little stalking pony, frontiersman, supporter of Croatian nationalism and extoller of 'Operation Storm', Marko Attila Hoare, is back with what he describes as a "measured" 4,000 word review of pp 190-212 of my book, The Liberal Defence of Murder. As Hoare writes, these pages concern his "own area...

Max Dunbar is not a commentator I take all that seriously, but this kind of stupidity deserves to be pointed at. He says: blogger Richard Seymour (currently valiantly struggling to contort his anti-imperialist narrative around the Obama era) declared faith ‘an enabling narrative for liberation str...

I have been waiting for this to happen. Some of you might remember a post that I wrote, about human zoos at the Colonial Exhibitions, in 2006. Just as a quick reminder: A human zoo today is unnecessary to the culture of imperialism: why have cages when you have video frames, IP telephony, and airbru...

Alternet has published an edited excerpt from the prologue to The Liberal Defence of Murder: "Many of the current batch of liberal advocates of empire have a history on the Left, often abandoned at some point after the collapse of the Soviet Union. For all but recalcitrant Stalinists, the human pros...

Yours truly in The Guardian . Amusingly, a lot of the regular Guardianistas seem to be really pissed off about the mean things I said about Obama's foreign policy. Copyleft of Lenin's Tomb...

Well, I don't know, I suppose slightly more people were gathered into Pollard room in the Institute of Historical Research than usual this evening. I mean, it might have even been in the double figures. And thank you to those who attended. The good news for this lucky sodality was that I had typed u...

I was asked by some people to upload my speech from Marxism, for those who were unable to attend. Having listened to the damned thing, I am reluctant to allow this talk to be used for anything other than a form of slow torture. And, at any rate, the organisers of Marxism partially rely on sales of t...

I have often puzzled over the chain of connections that leads liberal Islamophobes to treat the hijab/niqab/burqa/'veil' as the first step in a sequence of associations whose culmination is terrorism. Whether it is an Observer scribe making, shall we say, inferential leaps concerning the relationshi...