Reflections on the recent US elections
This is the first real opportunity I’ve had to blog about the outcome of the US elections. Everyone I know is gutted, and the best anyone could come up with as a “silver lining”...
Monthly Archive: November 2004
Why we shouldn’t support vigilante actions
I’m sure most of you have heard that an obscure Dutch film-maker, Theo Van Gogh, was murdered earlier this week. He was killed by a person of Dutch citizenship and Moroccan ancestry, who is...
Fudged answers on Iran
I’ve just been watching the BBC’s Question Time and watched a British politician fudge an answer on whether the UK would support a US invasion of Iran. Jack Straw was quoted earlier by the...
Israelis punish teenage bomber’s family
The BBC reports that the Israelis have demolished the home of the teenage suicide bomber who blew himself up in a Tel Aviv market yesterday. The report makes it clear that he did not...
IQ & Bush support
Dr Maxtor has posted an amusing report which indicates that there is a correlation between low IQ and support for Bush. Among people of IQs above 140, there is 80% support for Kerry, among...
USAid funding forced sterilisation in India
The Guardian reports today that a sterilisation policy is underway in northern India, in which gun licences are being issued in return for men receiving vasectomies – in the case of a revolver licence,...