Indigo Jo on November 24th, 2009

I’ve never made much secret of the fact that I hate football. I have done since I was forced to play it at school as a child, but I equally dislike the acrimonious rivalries, the overblown salaries and transfer deals, the diva-like behaviour of some of the players, the bad-loserism and the boorish behaviour […]

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Indigo Jo on November 14th, 2009

Ben Goldacre on a hilarious, but tragic, example of obvious bogus science and how the Iraqi police were taken in, to the tune of £19m ($32m):

A British company called ATSC is selling a device which can detect guns, ammunition, bombs, drugs, contraband ivory – and truffles. The ADE651 uses “electrostatic magnetic ion attraction” […]

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Indigo Jo on July 21st, 2009

I’m sure many of you have heard the story of the young girl who suffered terrible injuries in a gang rape in Aleppo last month; you can read the story in English here. There has been a Facebook group set up to show solidarity (it’s mostly in Arabic) and a few websites have reported […]

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Indigo Jo on June 28th, 2009

In the past couple of weeks I’ve noticed something startling appearing on the Muslim ‘net: conservative Muslims attacking the Pakistani Taliban. These include a series of posts from Abu Eesa ([1], [2] with links to four more) and the news that a great-grandson of Maulana Qasim Nanotwi, a founder of Darul-Uloom Deoband, has condemned […]

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Indigo Jo on June 11th, 2009

Once again, the topic of promoting “Sufism” as a means of countering the aggression of “salafi”-inspired jihadist movements, as in Pakistan presently, has come up, thanks to the establishment of a seven-member “Sufi Advisory Council” in Pakistan. The council, according to Ali Eteraz in Foreign Policy, is headed by a former minister in the […]

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Indigo Jo on May 27th, 2009

BBC NEWS Magazine: Clive James on feminism and democracy

Clive James is arguing that the reason feminists are not loud on the issue of promoting democracy abroad when the alternatives are far worse for women is because this reminds them that there is an intractable difference between the genders after all:

Democracy is the best […]

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Indigo Jo on May 14th, 2009

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Indigo Jo on March 30th, 2009

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Indigo Jo on March 17th, 2009

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Indigo Jo on March 5th, 2009

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Indigo Jo on November 5th, 2008

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Indigo Jo on August 26th, 2008

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Indigo Jo on August 4th, 2008

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Indigo Jo on July 13th, 2008

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Indigo Jo on June 10th, 2008

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Indigo Jo on February 22nd, 2008

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Indigo Jo on February 9th, 2008

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