September 2007
Monthly Archive
Petition in support of Burmese rising
Posted on Sep 30 2007 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
Sign here please.
The problem isn’t the oligarchs and lawyers: it’s the judges and the editors
Posted on Sep 29 2007 | Tagged as: Politics, Blogistan, The Stupid, Media, Censorship, Sport
Blimey. You go away for two weeks and the internet gets shat on (one more time).
To recap for anyone (else) who has been living under a rock: Uzbek billionaire and owner of a fat slice of the Arsenal pie Alisher Usmanov announces that he wants to increase his stake to 25%. Craig Murray, the UK’s […]
Gumtree
Posted on Sep 14 2007 | Tagged as: Technology, The Stupid, Comedy, Advertising
Matthew’s best internet prank yet?
Punter with a conscience
Posted on Sep 11 2007 | Tagged as: Politics
As well as the many and varied objections to plans to criminalise the purchase of sex, I’ve just remembered something.
There was a case a couple of years ago where Cardiff’s two notorious brothels were found to have been employing an illegally trafficked Lithuanian woman. I vaguely remember reading at the time that the police (who […]
Gunishment
Posted on Sep 05 2007 | Tagged as: Politics, The Stupid
In this New Statesman piece on the origins of all the guns that are supposedly flooding the country, Martin Bright reports that guns are often designed to be easily taken apart and arrive in the UK separately as various components. (Probably tried on a much larger scale for Iraq’s “Babylon Gun”.)
According to the academics, these […]
Which party would Humpty Dumpty join?
Posted on Sep 04 2007 | Tagged as: Words, Politics
“When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean. Neither more, nor less.”
– Humpty Dumpty in Lewis Carroll’s Through The Looking Glass.
There’s a lot of that going on in the argument over Andrew Anthony’s book, one of many questioning what’s happened to “liberal values”.
This post of Gary’s (synopsis: “What the […]