Read. Count yourself lucky. Then read. Agree. Despise The Sun even more. “You did bad things, therefore you deserve no sympathy for having lost a leg in a terrorist attack. You deserved it.” Sound familiar?

What the pissing hell is going on in Uganda? We’ve had attacks on foreign aid workers, the arrest of the opposition leader on charges of treason and rape, had the riots in support, further arrests, more riots, then mysterious gunmen … Continue reading →

A plug – Strangely Rouge. Noticed a while back, and shows a lot of potential. Also check out the attendant flickr account, which has some beautiful stuff. And now I really must get back to that work I should have … Continue reading →

It’s a fairly well-known fact that if you write a blog-post about Britney Spears, lesbians, hot coed teens, cheerleaders or the like, your hit-count will rocket. The same is also true (albeit to a lesser extent) for posts about terrorism. … Continue reading →

Today MEPs are voting on a vast array of chemicals legislation, “REACH” (acronym of “Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals”). If you thought that in itself couldn’t get more tedious, spare a thought for the poor MEPs (most of whom … Continue reading →

The Guardian in “yet another article about blogging” non-shocker! This time focussing on some of the big boys of UK blogging and featuring a few familiar friends – as well as a bunch of people I honestly couldn’t be arsed … Continue reading →

I mean, really – what sort of bollocks is this? “The sky is dark. The terrorists seek mass casualties and are entirely indiscriminate…” Yes, I know that it’s true (even the bit about the sky being dark, what with it … Continue reading →

Switzerland in rampant hypocrisy shocker! “Police in Switzerland have seized a number of paintings belonging to the Pushkin state art museum in Moscow. “The 25 paintings – part of a collection on loan to an exhibit in Martigny – were … Continue reading →

A prime example of how locking people up without putting them on trial can lead to resentment, anger and alienation: Arrested December 2003 and released without charge after six days, then re-arrested in August 2004 by request of the United … Continue reading →

After much pondering, I have decided to drop the cloak of blogging semi-anonymity, step out from behind the curtain and reveal my real name. You won’t have heard of me, don’t worry, and with a little bit of link-following or … Continue reading →

Using Blairite logic, if Tony doesn’t follow Thailand’s example and force us all to register our pay-as-you-go mobiles to ensure they can’t be used in a terrorist attack, he will have blood on his hands if, as I hope will … Continue reading →

Sorry, busy – check out Soj’s superb (as usual) EuroPDB if you have a hankering for newsy stuff. Glad to see her forced blogging retirement ended up being short-lived.

I was going to do a “Peter Mandelson is a twat and so is France” round-up, but trade talks are simply too damn tedious. Thankfully the Curious Hamster has done it for me. Ta, boss.

Utterly predictable – I mean, OBVIOUSLY it’s the 15 people rounded up for a show trial who are guilty here, not the government forces who massacred hundreds of peaceful protestors… “the judge… repeated many of the details of the government’s … Continue reading →