Euro court rejects Turkish headscarf appeal
This just in from the BBC: Turkey can ban Islamic headscarves in universities, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. The court rejected an appeal by a Turkish woman who argued that the...
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Scum misrepresents bomb victim
Anyone see the front page of the Scum newspaper yesterday, the one with the face of a burned 7th July bomb victim on it and an appeal for everyone to write to Tory Bliar...
Bliar defeated
Good news today, which certainly justifies an update: Tory Bliar's proposal to lock suspected terrorists up for up to 90 days got defeated in the Commons, with 322 against and 291 in favour. 49...
How great Apple Stores are
For the year and a half I've been a Mac owner, my Mac's monitor has had niggling monitor problems – bits of colour in places they shouldn't be. This usually means a "halo" effect,...
Galloway lets his people down (again)
I've long lost any respect for George Galloway, but the contempt with which he apparently regards his followers was displayed in his behaviour during the Commons vote on the Government's terrorist legislation this week....
Reply to Hirsh and Ashworth on leftist “anti-semitism”
Two of the directors of Engage, Jane Ashworth and David Hirsh, have written a defence of Zionism and a critique of leftist anti-Zionism on the website of Progress, “the independent organisation for Labour party...
French reap what they sow
I'm not a good graphic manipulator and never bothered to follow Linux Format's GIMP course, but if I were, there would be a graphic on the right showing a French flag with the stripes...
Winter lights? Not our idea
Nobody who heard the local news in London yesterday morning could have failed to hear the latest bizarre story about a local council bending over backwards to "accommodate" people who never asked to be...
Why Godwin’s Law isn’t law here
Fifteen years ago, when most people had never heard of the Internet and only people at universities and in various government departments had access to it, nobody had heard of PHP forums (or PHP...
Hanania throws his toys as Proggie circus hits Barcelona
Umm Zaid ([1], [2], [3]) and Izzy Mo have had some correspondence with Ray Hanania, one of the advisory board for the so-called Free Muslim Coalition Against Terrorism despite being a Christian (albeit an...
Do they STILL not get it?
A while ago there was a controversy in which British TV showed a documentary about the murder of a Saudi princess for some infraction of honour, and the Saudi government attempted to put pressure...
Cohen on racism in Handsworth
Another civil disturbance, another Nick Cohen comment (duplicated on his blog), and you can bet he'll use it to drum for his pet causes – among them his opposition to sectional politics of any...
London Buses and other public services
This week yet another London bus route, the number 38, lost its Routemasters to be replaced by bendy buses (commonly called happy buses or free buses due to the scarcity of inspectors). The only...
In defence of British time
Today was the last day of British Summer Time, by which for seven months of the year, the British call midnight 1am and noon 1pm. For the five months from the end of October...
Hypocrisy and self-delusion on Iran
I have to admit I was rather surprised to hear that the president of Iran had made some remarks about wanting to see Israel "wiped off the map", and that other countries were ever...
Which blogware to use?
As a lot of you noticed, I recently switched my blog tool back to Movable Type. With a vengeance – I actually bought an unlimited personal licence while it was reduced for a few...
Brazilians see sense
As a geek I've got a soft spot for Brazil, which is one of a handful of third-world countries which is at the forefront of open-source software adoption. This is mostly due to most...
Interview with UK cyber-crime minister
The most recent Guardian Online has an interview with Paul Goggins, the British Home Office minister concerned with internet crime, about recent Government proposals to police internet use by requiring service providers to keep...
Zardad’s Dog is on display
Anyone who saw the shortlisted pieces for last year's Turner Prize might have noticed that part of one of the exhibits was off display. The exhibit was by Langlands and Bell and consisted of...
PhobeWatch on the WPI
Islamophobia Watch have a feature on how Maryam Namazie's friends in the Worker-Communist Party of Iran were thrown out of a CND conference last weekend for causing a disruption: Jeremy Corbyn, who was chairing...