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Ambush journalism 22 Aug 2013 | 12:37 pm
A journalist ambushes Russia Today for their concentration on the (deplorable) Bradley Manning/Edward Snowden stories and near-silence on much-worse domestic abuses, enjoy: His criticism goes right t...
Echoes of '89 . . . 15 Aug 2013 | 12:31 pm
. . . Beijing on June the 4th, specifically. Right now I'm listening to Jim Naughtie of BBC Radio 4's The Today Programme questioning the Egyptian ambassador's about the apparent mass killings in Cair...
Your iPad did not kill anyone. 6 Aug 2013 | 04:17 pm
A friend of mine shared this article, about the conditions at Foxconn's 400,000 worker factory in Longhua where I used to work, via Facebook. I couldn't read past the title "The woman who nearly died ...
The Farage Farago 17 May 2013 | 07:37 pm
In terms of publicity, it is difficult to imagine how Nigel Farage's visit to Edinburgh yesterday could possibly have been more successful. What would almost certainly have been a brief photo-op that ...
Untitled 8 Apr 2013 | 10:05 pm
"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left." - Margaret Thatcher
March, 2003 6 Mar 2013 | 05:03 pm
I've been reading through the comments under this piece by Ta-Nehisi Coates describing his feelings about the anti-Iraq-war movement back in 2003: "Back then I was seized with a deep feeling that I w...
"Sinocentrism" is not an ideology 4 Feb 2013 | 08:25 pm
I enjoyed this piece in today's Washington Post (H/T Rectified Name) describing what they see as the possible reasoning behind the hacking of the New York Times' computers after their publishing of an...
Whatever happened to "internal democracy"? 3 Oct 2012 | 03:00 pm
I was just reading through the comments on the Guardian website under their article covering the latest speech of Ed Milliband, Labour party leader, when a comment caught my eye. The speech itself was...
The Hong Kong Backlash 28 Sep 2012 | 07:05 pm
Much has been written elsewhere about the whole kerfuffle surrounding the ham-fisted attempt to insititute a once-a-week moral and national education (MNE - AKA civics) classes in Hong Kong's schools ...
A note on what may be considered 'subversion' 21 Sep 2012 | 03:29 am
A long time ago I had a long-running discussion with some of the people who run the Hidden Harmonies website on whether Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo's conviction for subversion showed that the ...
