Welcome home, Hilary
We're all rehearsing for the presidency … I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army — Ani DiFranco, Not So Soft Yesterday evening, just before 7pm, a lady called Hilary Lister completed...
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Mehdi Hasan on the BBC’s ‘liberal’ bias
New Statesman – Bias and the Beeb Mehdi Hasan, the NS’s senior politics editor, on how the recurrent claim that the BBC has some sort of liberal bias does not stack up when you...
Shisha ‘as harmful as cigarettes’
BBC NEWS | Health | Shisha ‘as harmful as cigarettes’ Why does anyone assume that shisha is less harmful than smoking cigarettes? Becuase it’s such a “cultural” experience, or because the smell of shisha...
If it looks like a bloke …
Last week, a South African female runner who won the gold medal by a very clear margin (albeit because of a surge in the last minute or so) in the World Athletics Championships in...
My thoughts on Lockerbie ‘bomber’ release
Today, Abdul-Basit Ali al-Megrahi, the man convicted of planting the bomb which destroyed a Pan Am jet over Lockerbie in Scotland in 1988, was released on compassionate grounds as he is terminally ill with...
How can this school get away with this rip-off?
Comprehensive defends new school uniform costing nearly £100 | Education | The Guardian On the subject of Portsmouth, one imagines that you will not find much overlap between the riders on the new London-to-Portsmouth...
Greyhounds to run in southern England
American Greyhound buses to ply UK roads from Portsmouth to London | UK news | guardian.co.uk (also here) This shouldn’t really be any surprise since the First group operates bus services around the UK...
Pankaj Mishra on Islamophobia and integration
A culture of fear — from Saturday’s Guardian Pankaj Mishra had a lengthy article published on the rise of Islamophobia across Europe in Saturday’s Guardian which covers the gamut of issues raised by Islamophobia...
Huge mabrouk to Khadija Bradley
I’d just like to give a huge mabrouk to sister (Cassiopia) Khadija Bradley who got married yesterday (Friday). I don’t know the identity of the lucky man but I am sure he is as...
The price of integration
Jim Fitzpatrick condemned for ‘hijacking’ Muslim wedding by bridegroom – Telegraph The details of this incident, in which a Labour government minister who represents the “safe” (not for long, insha Allah) east London seat...
Cameron rebukes idiot MEP
BBC NEWS | Politics | NHS attack MEP rebuked by Cameron David Cameron is the leader of the Conservative Party in the UK, and much as I despise that institution and much as I...
Come on Steve, prove you’re one of us
Where Are the British Birthers? | TPM Calling on Stephen Hawking to provide his bona fides (hat tip: Ginny, via Twitter): Perhaps there will be some brave republican willing to spearhead an investigation of...
I’m a photographer, not a terrorist (or a ‘nonce’)
BBC Viewfinder: I'm a photographer… This is all about the problems some photographers have been having taking pictures in 'sensitive' locations, particularly in London; these places have also included shopping centres, many of them...
Most Windows 7 upgrades will be destructive
Deciphering Windows 7 Upgrades: The Official Chart | Walt Mossberg | Mossblog | AllThingsDigital Linked via OSNews, Walt Mossberg explains that upgrading to Windows 7 from Windows XP will mean wiping your hard drive...
With friends like this …
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Jackson friend claims paternity “Mark Lester, a former child star and long-time friend of Michael Jackson, says he could be the father of one of the late pop star’s...
British immigration separate mother and daughter for 7 years
Asylum seekers speak: 'Nothing can give us back the last seven years' — from today's Guardian This is the story of how a woman who had fled persecution, including rape, in Uganda after being...
BBC & Open Uni debunk ‘Muslim Demographics’
BBC NEWS | Magazine | Debunking a YouTube hit The BBC’s radio programme More or Less, produced in collaboration with the Open University, debunk the notorious “Muslim Demographics” video which has been a big...
Murdoch plans to charge for online content
The Guardian today reported that Rupert Murdoch is planning to make the websites for his Times and Sun newspapers, and no doubt his foreign titles as well, a paid-for resource rather than a free...
DNA casts doubt on Luke Mitchell’s guilt
Luke Mitchell is someone I didn't want to be guilty when I heard the case on the news at the time, but after the verdict and the sentence I had to concede. However, any...
Whole Foods UK ‘£36m in the red’
The Guardian reports today that the British operation of Whole Foods Market, which took over the old Fresh and Wild organic chain and opened up a huge supermarket in a former department store in...