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A Note On This Blog… 16 Jun 2011 | 11:20 am
I switched blogs because so much of this one’s content seemed puerile and misguided. In hindsight — it seems worse. None of the sentiments expressed herein should be assumed to be endorsed by your h...
Goodbye. Hello. 9 Jul 2009 | 07:30 am
This blog has moved. It’ll now live here. Thank you very much for reading, and I hope that you’ll continue to. Please alter links if you feel the urge.
No Time Is Too Hallowed For This Fleet-Fingered Git… 6 Jul 2009 | 02:23 pm
A cricket umpire has died after being struck on the head by a ball.
Ethics, Investment, Churches And Whatnot – Not As Portentous As It Sounds… 6 Jul 2009 | 02:07 pm
I was vaguely bemused to learn that the C of E plays the stock market: after their religion’s fractious relations with money lenders, they’ve apparently decided that if ya can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. Th...
Kidnapping People, Kidnapping Liberty… 5 Jul 2009 | 11:00 am
In December 2001, Mahmoud Abu Rideh, a Palestinian-born British resident with a British wife and six British children, was arrested, and imprisoned in Belmarsh. His eldest daughter, Ala’a, describes t...
No One Can See You Wriggle… 4 Jul 2009 | 12:28 pm
Ibrahim Jassam, powerless and ignored, is now on a hunger strike, and his sister reports that “his health is deteriorating. We are very worried about him.“ To recap: Ibrahim Jassam Mohammed is an Ira...
Thank Christ I Blogged On Sarah Palin… 4 Jul 2009 | 12:01 pm
…what terrible things may have befallen us otherwise?
Quick, Lads, Before Someone Else Dies! 2 Jul 2009 | 02:19 pm
Two more biographies of Michael Jackson have been commissioned by UK publishers, following his sudden death last week. Michael O’Mara’s Michael Jackson: Legend 1958-2009 will be published on 1st Septe...
When Torture Kills… 2 Jul 2009 | 01:03 pm
Right, team — er, readers. There’s a fine, important post by Andy Worthington over here. I want you to survey that area, and then rendezvous with Glenn Greenwald over here. Have you got that? Then go...
Lovell, That’s Not A Problem… 30 Jun 2009 | 01:37 am
“Today,” Frank Furedi wrote in 2007, “Politicians are…likely to advise the public to fear everything, including fear itself.” It’s ironic, then, that in his critique of the “suspicion and mistrust” of...
