Archive for March, 2011
Mahmoud Jabari on his arrest
A couple of commenters said they’d be interested to hear what Mahmoud Jabari had to say about his arrest and imprisonment following this post. He has now issued a statement, which I think demonstrates the unfairness of some of the comments people make about the Palestinians, refusing to see them as individuals, but also implicitly [...]
Posted: March 28th, 2011 under Uncategorized.
Statement from the AHRC
The AHRC has issued a statement refuting the allegations I reported on in my recent post. I quote a key extract here, and the rest can be read on the website. I will obviously update my post, but thought it only fair to make this a separate item.
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) unconditionally [...]
Posted: March 28th, 2011 under Uncategorized.
No To AV spells it out
NO to AV launches the next phase of its campaign this week kicking off today with some poster and press ads. Not sure you can spell it out much more clearly than this.
Posted: March 28th, 2011 under UK Politics.
The Toy Town Revolutionaries
The anarchists who marched on Saturday with the TUC and took delight in throwing paint at Top Shop on Oxford Circus, trying to wreck the Ritz hotel on Piccadilly, and occupy Fortnum & Mason on the same street, did so as part of “direct action.”
Ostensibly this action is directed against government cuts; in reality the [...]
Posted: March 28th, 2011 under The Left.
Nir Rosen: “Hello. I Must Be Going”
Well that didn’t take long:
Pro-Hizbollah journalist Nir Rosen has resigned from a controversial fellowship at LSE, just days after announcing his appointment.
Mr Rosen, a staunch anti-Zionist, announced on Friday that he had been appointed a Fellow at LSE’s Centre for Global Governance.
He was widely criticised in February for comments he made about the sexual assault [...]
Posted: March 28th, 2011 under Academia.
What Do Monsters Dream Of?
Not the Doctor. This one, at least, dreams of being stoned to death by his own people.
Posted: March 28th, 2011 under Korea, North Korea.
“The far left is now the British right’s secret weapon”
Worth reading piece from Nick Cohen here:
The distinction was made clearer to me on Saturday, when I walked with the main march. I was glad to meet railwaymen, cleaners, teachers and hospital workers – the kind of people who ensure that when you get up in the morning you have a reasonably civilised country to [...]
Posted: March 28th, 2011 under The Left.
Please do not distract the deputy prime minister whilst the nation is imploding.
Probably a bit rough on poor old Lynne who at least bothers to reply to constituent correspondence, but in all honesty, this is the Lib Dems we’re talking about…so who gives a shit?
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Letter from Lib Dem MP Lynne Featherstone to constituent Robin Beste:
Dear Mr Beste,
I just wanted to drop you a line to give you [...]
Posted: March 28th, 2011 under UK Politics.
Nir Rosen hired by LSE
This is a cross post by Adam Holland
Nir Rosen, the free-lance journalist who gained infamy and lost an NYU fellowship after celebrating via Twitter the sexual assault on Lara Logan and wishing the same on Anderson Cooper, is back on Twitter. He’s recently used it to announce that he’s been hired [...]
Posted: March 28th, 2011 under Academia, The Left, Wingnuttery.
Your friendly neighbourhood blogger
The Sunday Telegraph reports:
Howard Jacobson and the £500 Question
Howard Jacobson may be an unlikely seducer, but the novelist has lured one reader into paying to be taken to bed by him.
Michael Ezra, a fund manager, paid £500 at an auction for Index on Censorship to have a character with his name take part in a [...]
Posted: March 28th, 2011 under Blogland.
