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...
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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...
Zia Sardar has a go at emel
Did anyone else see Ziauddin Sardar on BBC2's Culture Show in the feature on emel magazine last night? He had the gall to criticise "emel" for being too "orthodox", something he's not too keen...
Robert Spencer and me
Since Robert Spencer has recently drawn attention to a discussion we had last April which started when I replied to a post about female circumcision on his Dhimmi Watch sub-blog, I thought I'd do...
SUSE Linux 10 is here
After I went to the London Linux World Expo a couple of weeks ago I ordered a copy of Novell's new SUSE Linux package, having missed the "product launch without a product" which was...
Murray: Hazel Blears lied
Craig Murray has a piece in today's Guardian calling out Hazel Blears, a Home Office minister, for relaying a straightforward untruth regarding the so-called Islamic Jihad Union, a purported terrorist organisation operating in Uzbekistan,...
Top 10 blog design mistakes
Via Guardian Newsblog, a guy called Jakob Nielsen has laid out a list of the Top Ten Design Mistakes commonly found on blogs. I guess mine falls foul of quite a few of them:...
“Honour” Killings
Why oh why oh why? Both The Times and the BBC have recently reported on another “honour” killing in the British Muslim community. A disgusting remnant of Indo-Pak life that has sadly been brought...
Worker Communists as liberals!
Nick Cohen has written an appreciation of Maryam Namazie of the Worker-Communist Party of Iran for today's Observer newspaper (also at his site here). This wouldn't be so bad if Cohen actually made it...
Are you miserable?
With the ongoing saga of the ongoing troubles on the Northern or "Misery" Line (caused by the drivers' unions' refusal to drive unsafe trains), I just thought I'd point out a letter in tonight's...