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Elections are very much in the ether at the moment. Japan has just got over it’s local elections, the UK has just had its own with a referendum on the…
David Cameron, the UK prime minister, is a racist. I do not use the term lightly because it’s a big deal calling someone a bigot, saying that they are irrational…
Would you like relish with that court ruling? A Dutch McDonald’s employee is fired for adding an unauthorised slice of cheese to a burger. But a Dutch court rules for…
Life imitates art, or in this case damn near plagiarises it. Corporate bastards in Japan have evidently been reading this author’s fandoobly novel Weed and have shamelessly ripped it off.…
My human rights have been violated, and those of thousands like me. This week the EU caved into pressure from British imperialists and excused the UK from going properly metric.…
The capture this week of the July 21 bomb suspects could be very bad news for Tory Blair. The individual picked up in Rome has apparently already said that the…
If the man shot at Stockwell tube station on Friday had been a suicide bomber complete with bomb belt and the works, then I don’t suppose anyone would have objected…
Two-thirds of the British public believe that the recent London bombs were linked to our involvement in Iraq. Only two-thirds? What do the other third think the bombs were about?…
Riverbend points out on her Baghdad Burning blog an interesting shift in the rhetoric of George Bush and his armchair junta. The invasion of Iraq was justified by the country’s…
Electoral Freud (without the Freud)
Elections are very much in the ether at the moment. Japan has just got over it’s local elections, the UK has just had its own with a referendum on the…
Tiny Britain
David Cameron, the UK prime minister, is a racist. I do not use the term lightly because it’s a big deal calling someone a bigot, saying that they are irrational…
Road to hell is paved with hamburgers
Would you like relish with that court ruling? A Dutch McDonald’s employee is fired for adding an unauthorised slice of cheese to a burger. But a Dutch court rules for…
Grinning bastards and Weed
Life imitates art, or in this case damn near plagiarises it. Corporate bastards in Japan have evidently been reading this author’s fandoobly novel Weed and have shamelessly ripped it off.…
Imperial dudgeon
My human rights have been violated, and those of thousands like me. This week the EU caved into pressure from British imperialists and excused the UK from going properly metric.…
Bomber explodes Blair’s lies
The capture this week of the July 21 bomb suspects could be very bad news for Tory Blair. The individual picked up in Rome has apparently already said that the…
Jean Charles de Menezes
If the man shot at Stockwell tube station on Friday had been a suicide bomber complete with bomb belt and the works, then I don’t suppose anyone would have objected…
London-Iraq link — from the horse’s mouth
Two-thirds of the British public believe that the recent London bombs were linked to our involvement in Iraq. Only two-thirds? What do the other third think the bombs were about?…
London like Baghdad
A week after the bombings in London, this is a good moment for a bit of a think. The carnage visited on the city is but a small reflection of…
Casus Bollocks
Riverbend points out on her Baghdad Burning blog an interesting shift in the rhetoric of George Bush and his armchair junta. The invasion of Iraq was justified by the country’s…