My Mac and Ubuntu
On Sunday evening I finally got round to ordering the new hard drive for my Mac (a 120Gb Seagate). It arrived on Tuesday morning by standard first-class post, which was unexpectedly early, though they...
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The perils of off-the-peg American policy
Two interesting articles regarding the British government's enthusiasm for adopting US policies into British criminal law: First, from this week's New Statesman: Martin Bright explains why our ministers seem always to look to the...
Some good news from Somalia
Richard Dowden (of the Royal African Society) in today's Independent argues that the Islamic Courts militia which recently seized power in Mogadishu (and may take control of other areas) is not a new Taliban,...
Guardian: Israel boycott debate triggered email attack
The Guardian's Education section today reports on how recent debates on boycotting Israeli universities produced a flood of often abusive emails: Following a heart attack earlier this year, Paul Mackney, then general secretary of...
Police chief: government ARE caving in to press
Finally, the head of a police force comes out and says what a lot of us have been saying for months if not years: that the Government is caving in to bullying from the...
Talking of service …
Saracen just made the point (entry below) about how on the High Street, "stock, price and service sometimes leave a lot to be desired", which is why he buys much of what he buys...
Buying computer gear
Earlier this evening I ordered a new hard drive for my Mac, one which has approximately triple the storage space of the one in there at the moment (120 gigabytes instead of 40). The...
Nick Cohen on last Sunday’s demo
Here is what Nick Cohen has to say about a demonstration I attended outside Scotland Yard (London police HQ) last Sunday in response to the bungled Forest Gate raid. He is suggesting that everyone...
Mad Mel in the Guardian
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Jackie Ashley meets Melanie Phillips I'm sure some of you are getting sick to death with this and wondering if I have an infatuation with Melanie Phillips, but...
Idiot Marine mocks “Hajjis” in video
The Council on American-Islamic Relations – 'Marines' Cheer Song About Killing Iraqi Civilians I got this via Lenin: a four-minute video, posted on YouTube and later deleted but archived by CAIR (see link at...
Simon Heffer on “Londonistan” (with replies)
Simon Heffer has written what amounts to a puff piece for Melanie Phillips' book Londonistan in the Daily Telegraph, alleging among other things that Phillips had difficulty "exercising her freedom of speech" on account...
Most Turks oppose hijab ban
IslamOnline reports that a recent poll in Turkey reveals that most people oppose the country's ban on hijab in the civil service and universities (see also this report from the Washington Post, thanks UZ)....
Ahmedinejad misquoted
Comment is free: Lost in translation Jonathan Steele on how the president of Iran's notorious "wipe off the map" speech did not in fact contain the offending words at all: The New York Times's...
Quotes from Forest Gate brothers
BBC NEWS | UK | In quotes: Terror raid brothers Abdul Kahar: As soon as I turn around I just see an orange spark and a big bang. At that time I flew into...
Mel with Anita Anand on her supporters
A snippet from Anita Anand's conversation with Melanie Phillips (hat tip: Saracen; you can listen to it here until next Monday; it's 1hr 45mins in. Anita: This is another text that's come in just...
Mad Mel’s audience
Just checking for reviews of Melanie Phillips' new book, and came across this, on Amazon … the details of what people who bought Londonistan also bought. Bawer, Fallaci, Robert Spencer, Andrew Bostom, Bat Eeyore...
What have you been eating?
I caught sight of this entry on the blog Jowhara’s Chamber about the state of Muslim-run restaurants. The author explains how she passed a restaurant at which she had become quite a regular, stopped...
Forest Gate: it was either this or that
STOP PRESS: the Forest Gate brothers have been released Plus: in this week's New Statesman, former editor Peter Wilby on the contradictory stories of the events last Friday: The brothers who lived there were...
Crazies march today; real demo this Sunday
The family of the two men arrested in the raid a week ago are urging Muslims not to take part in a march organised by "al-Ghurabaa", an off-shoot of al-Muhajiroun, according to this report...