What is, and what isn’t, a pyramid scheme?
So, the other day I responded to a tweet by the author of Existential Comics which read: A pyramid scheme is a scam where the people at the top get the money from the...
Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
So, the other day I responded to a tweet by the author of Existential Comics which read: A pyramid scheme is a scam where the people at the top get the money from the...
‘Gaslighting’ is a term coined fairly recently to refer to a kind of behaviour displayed by abusive individuals (particularly domestic and intimate-partner abusers) in which they use tricks to cast doubt on their victim’s...
So, in the wake of Mary Beard’s ill-considered (patrician, soft-racist) tweet last week about how she wouldn’t go out to a disaster zone and do what those brave Oxfam staff (accused of sexually exploiting...
This post is also published at Same Difference, and you can comment there or here. Back in August, a blog was set up titled “Dave on Wheels”, purportedly by a young disabled man called...
Back in the days when Usenet was the main place online for discussion (if not the only), before web forums and blogs had been heard of (or at least, were anything like as sophisticated...