Douglas Hurd on the ‘trivial’ British press
At last! Someone’s written a cogent article on the state of the British press, and its effect on politicians. Douglas Hurd’s headline article in this week’s Spectator focuses on the Daily Mail, but also...
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Windoze screen resolutions
Does anyone else hate going into cyber-cafés, when they have a TFT screen set on less than that screen’s resolution, and they’ve set up the Control Panel so that it doesn’t allow you to...
Reply to ‘A Convert Speaks’
David T at Harry’s Place has replied to my last piece, Harry on IDS and Cohen on Livingstone (Again), taking issue with my definition of a religious community; he seems to think I define...
Harry on IDS and Cohen on Livingstone (again)
Nick Cohen has had yet another article printed in the Observer, attacking the mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, for his connections (a meeting or two and a hug) with the Muslim scholar, Yusuf al-Qaradawi....
Spectator on US-UK extradition
The most recent edition of the Spectator (a British political magazine, edited by the Tory MP Boris Johnson) protests against the one-sided extradition agreement passed in 2003. In this case, it’s three bankers who’ve...
Scorpion’s Muharram survey
Leila (Scorpion) has filled in the latest survey that’s doing the rounds (she calls it “a mid-Muharram meme” although I’m not sure if it started in Muharram). Umm Zaid has filled in a shorter...
WordPress 1.5 – first impressions
I’ve been watching the progress on the latest version of the WordPress blogging software, which is based on the old b2 code which has spawned a few other derivatives, notably b2evolution. The new release...
Reflections on a week with the dsabled
This past week (as explained earlier) I’ve been doing a temporary job driving a minibus, transporting the severely mentally disabled of New Malden from their homes and care facilities to two day care and...
Schiavo ‘blogburst’
Last night I got an email from a supporter of the Terri Schiavo campaign, asking me to join a “Blogburst” in their support. I clicked on the link in the email, and I discovered...
My new (temporary) job
I’ve managed to come by a rather sweet temporary job with the local facilities for dealing with the learning disabled, which consists of (who’d have guessed!) driving them around. It basically involves driving them...
The latest royal marriage saga
I’ve put this entry under the Politics header as I’ve got no intention of dedicating a whole category (not that it would use up much space) to the saga of Prince Charles’ allegedly impending...
No speaka de lingo
There’s a report in today’s Observer about the violence in Colombia surrounding the cocaine trade, which is supplying an increasinly sociably respectable drug to middle-class Brits. They talk to a 19-year-old girl who was...
Immigration lunacy watch
Every so often, I link to articles here on the UK’s idiotic asylum and immigration policies, and the side-effects which impact on ordinary people. The most recent is a family in Wales, in which...
Job hunting …
Not long back from attenting a “selection interview” for an IT recruitment agency in Tolworth. I’ve been looking for a proper job for ages, half-heartedly because I’m not very good at interviews and writing...
The latest ‘racism’ hullabaloo
With that flying pig poster barely out of people’s minds, it seems that someone else has made the mistake of “crossing” a certain ethno-religious community. The mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, got into a...
The plagiarism controversy
Visitors to Sunni Sister will have noticed the recent controversy over the unauthorised copying of a number of articles from Modern Muslima and various other websites run by Saraji Umm Zaid. Visitors to those...
Of daemons, evolution and intolerance
It’s fairly common for Muslims to enounter the arrogance of a particular religious sect, which prides itself on its lack of “dogma” but in fact probably exceeds all other religions in its total contempt...
My favourite software’s opening up at last
Yesterday I read on OSNews that the company behind Qt, the toolkit with which I write all my programs including Catkin, have finally decided to release the Windows version of the software as “open...
Flaws in Tories’ new asylum policy
There is a feature in today’s Times (London) from a practising barrister outlining the flaws in the Tories’ recently announced immigration policy. Among them is the fact that the new policy would breach Article...
Election news blues
A few depressing news stories today leave me wondering for how long this country will still be worth living in. This morning, they were discussing on the Jon Gaunt show a proposal to limit...