Google versus Facebook
Facebook started as a geek’s hobby, now it’s more popular than Google (from the Guardian) Facebook is now a bigger company than Google, in terms of its user base (Facebook has yet to disclose...
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Review of my 2010
This is, as far as I remember, the first time I’ve ever posted a review of a year to my blog, and that’s probably been because no old year has been as different from...
The prejudicial coverage of the Yeates murder
A loss of faith in the morality of the British press | Minority Thought I must say I never had much faith in it to begin with, but this article exposes some of the...
Just as long as he’s on our side
A couple of weeks ago I read an article in the Guardian by Hannah Pool about sexual harassment, which according to the author was a common experience for women in public places which she...
The blue magic-marker fetishists
Since I’ve been a kid I’ve been something of a road geek. I was always fascinated by roads and road signs, road numbers, street lights and so on (although the last faded when I...
Clamp down on imaginary Islamisation, says Torygraph
Islamophobia Watch – Documenting anti Muslim bigotry – ‘David Cameron must face the challenge of Islamisation’ says Torygraph The Telegraph published an interview with Marine Le Pen, daughter of the French far-right politician Jean-Marie Le...
Western Extension gone
As I start writing this entry, the western extension to the London congestion charge ceases. The charge is being suspended over Christmas and New Year, and will return after that in its original boundaries...
Review of “Jeff Brazier: Me and My Brother”
BBC Three – Jeff Brazier: Me and My Brother (available until Saturday, UK only) I just finished watching this programme on iPlayer; it features a BBC presenter named Jeff Brazier trying to bully his...
A sad day for parliamentary democracy
Last night a set of “scandals” broke in which various senior Lib Dem politicians made statements which were not conducive to the love-in between their party and the Tories which has caused so much...
BBC Radio 4 – Young, Muslim and Black
BBC – BBC Radio 4 Programmes – Young, Muslim and Black I heard this advertised on Radio 4 last week, and feared the worst when I heard the presenter, Dotun Adebayo, enunciate the word...
Year of the Droid
I got the phone I started writing this on about a year ago, just before Christmas 2009. It has really changed the way I use my phone and the way I use the net....
The perils of suspicion
Last weekend I witnessed an ugly incident on Facebook, which led to a relationship breaking up and the two erstwhile partners both retiring from the site (and Twitter) over accusations that seemed flimsy at...
How UK immigration treats young torture victims
Yesterday I watched a programme about the extent the British immigration “services” will go to get rid of child and teenage refugees. It told the stories of three cases, a family from Iran in...
Kingston and Snow (2)
Earlier this year I posted an entry called Kingston and Snow, which made the particular point about the places that don’t get gritted when the roads do, namely the pavements of main roads which...
Abdul-Hakim Murad and Panorama
This is a response to the ridiculous comments that have ensued from the recent John Ware documentary — he appeared in Ware’s earlier Panorama in which Ware attacked certain mosques at which offensive sermons...
Two examples of UK immigration madness
A tale of two stories (about which I hope I’m wrong) | Minority Thought The two stories are about two people, a man from Jamaica who moved here in the 1960s with his father,...
North Korea gaffe should sink Palin
Yesterday I was having a discussion with my aunt, who asked me if I had heard of Sarah Palin making that ridiculous statment about their North Korean “allies”. She was concerned that this would...
Casualty and ME: turning reality on its head
I got a reply from someone at the BBC Complaints department, which (much like the response to my earlier complaint about male rape jokes) wasn’t so much an apology as a self-justification. It included...
Asian pimps, Channel 4 and the BNP
Julie Bindel has an article in the current edition of Standpoint regarding the issue of the Asian pimp gangs that exist in some midland and northern towns in England, who exploit mostly local working-class...