The price of being an upstanding citizen
Today I learned that in the near future I might be up for what I consider a pretty unreasonable fine or a legal battle. All for talking to a policeman by the side of...
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LugRadio live
I was really quite excited about yesterday’s LugRadio Live event in Wolverhampton. LugRadio is a fortnightly “radio” show (i.e. downloadable recorded show) produced by the Wolverhampton Linux User Group led by Jono Bacon, a...
You know you’re a Londoner when …
You read Blogthings’ “You Know You’re From London when …” and realise it wasn’t written by a Londoner. Actually, I suspect UZ’s You Know You’re From New York when … was not written by...
No thanks to you, Mrs Robinson
I can’t think of a better title for a post about the case of a young female teacher found guilty yesterday of seducing an even younger pupil at her school, but I thought it...
Dumbing down English grammar
Earlier this year I bought the CD by Lynne Truss, Cutting a Dash, a BBC Radio 4 series on which Eats, Shoots and Leaves was based. The first episode was about the apostrophe, a...
Stories which caught my eye today
First of all, this whole smoking thing. There’s been yet more talk of having a ban on smoking in public places, and usual some people are up in arms about it. I say go...
Girl sues over boarding school pregnancy
There’s a report here about a girl who was sent to a special-needs boarding school ended up pregnant after being placed in a room next door to a 16-year-old boy. The report does not...
US govt slanders Tablighi Jama’at
The New York Times has published the story of Murat Kurnaz, a Turkish citizen born in Germany who was arrested in Pakistan not long after the 9/11 attacks, and handed over to the Americans...
Some impressions on SUSE Linux 9.3
SUSE Professional Linux 9.3 is the first Linux package I’ve actually bought (as opposed to getting it on a magazine cover disk) since version 9.1 last May. I’ve actually bought all of SUSE’s releases...
Moving to WordPress
I’ve had a request from a fellow Muslim blogger for information about what is required in transferring from Blogger to WordPress. My main blog hasn’t been based on Blogger for more than a year,...
New kangaroo court outrage
Ginny mentioned a report about yet another incident involving the oppression of a Muslim woman by a kangaroo court full of ignorant local elders, this time in India. The local assembly demanded that a...
Spectator on low-level sexual abuse
There’s a feature in this week’s Spectator (a right-of-centre political magazine) by one Leo McKinstry about the sexual advances he received from various men at his boarding school in Northern Ireland and how it...
Round-up for yesterday
Having finally got some sleep after three long days at work, I decided to get round to posting a full blog entry. It’s going to be more of a round-up rather than one long...
Independent on Mukhtaran Mai/Bibi
This is mostly for Izzy Mo’s readers, as I don’t want to post in her comments box as this is an Internet cafe and I don’t want to leave my address around: The Woman...
Automatic for the people?
So, Michael Jackson’s been acquitted. Looks like he’s going to hold a press conference and then go back to his bizarre lifestyle at Neverland. It seems the jury have been persuaded that Jackson, though...
The witch hunt on Warnock
The past few days appear to have been open season on Baroness Warnock, who in 1978 published a report advocating the integration of disabled children in mainstream schools. As you might expect, Melanie Phillips...
The anti-leftist leftists on “travel snobs”
I just had another look at the notorious Harry’s Place after at least a week of not having much computer time and there having been not too many political issues to write about (except...
Chicken cops
The Guardian today has a feature in its supplement about a mother who was shot dead by her estranged husband, who also murdered their son. The victim had told a number of people that...
The police state road-tax scheme
Since nobody in the blogosphere has got round to panning this stupid “road pricing” scheme all the papers are talking about today, I thought I would start the discussion. Alistair Darling, the British government...
London driving
Insha Allah I’m about to start my fourth week of proper work, something I have not had certainly since the middle of last year. Insha Allah this means I should be able to do...