November 2007
Monthly Archive
Paid
Posted on Nov 29 2007 | Tagged as: Work, Media
All it took was 90 days and a threat of legal action.
Freelancing is great.
That old chestnut
Posted on Nov 26 2007 | Tagged as: Politics, The Stupid, Race, Free-speech fundamentalism
Via Tim, Antonia Bance on Griffin and Irving’s appearance at the Oxford Union:
“And even if they were to, is it not breathtakingly arrogant that Oxford undergraduates believe that in a five minute debating speech they could somehow defeat either, when it took a Cambridge Professor of Modern History weeks on the stand to rebut Irving’s […]
Letting them die
Posted on Nov 26 2007 | Tagged as: Iraq employees campaign
I’ve had emails from three people who claim to be - and who almost certainly are- Iraqi former employees of the British Government. All three say that they and their former colleagues are still at risk of death for their ‘collaboration’.
We’ll call the first man Employee One. He worked for the British for three […]
Rainbow Five
Posted on Nov 24 2007 | Tagged as: Media, Lunatics
In Tom Clancy’s novel Rainbow Six, some environmentalists (with the emphasis very much on “mentalists”) try to wipe out half the Earth’s population for the benefit of the planet.
It’s probably only a short step to that from this.
What a difference a day makes
Posted on Nov 22 2007 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
Yesterday evening this search returned 995 results. It now returns 10 times that.
Make of that what you will.
Arrivederci
Posted on Nov 21 2007 | Tagged as: Sport
We’re not creative enough; we’re not positive enough.
‘Nuff said.
Raytheon
Posted on Nov 18 2007 | Tagged as: ID Cards: Still think they're a good idea?
The Government’s new e-borders scheme, under which anyone entering or leaving the country must divulge up to 53 pieces of personal information, is to be run by Raytheon.
Raytheon is a business so trustworthy that they’ve previously been convicted of illegally obtaining classified information, have been sued for spying on a rival firm and were caught […]
“Moses Didn’t Write About Creation”, Herman Cummings
Posted on Nov 17 2007 | Tagged as: RIBs (Reviews In Brief)
A 400-page argument from ignorance.
Officially better than the telegraph. Sort of
Posted on Nov 16 2007 | Tagged as: Spwci, Blowing my own trumpet
This award that my magazine team won back in July has just been made so much sweeter with the discovery that City University had hired former Telegraph Online Editor Richard Burton specifically to try and win that award for the website they entered.
Nearly makes up for all three Cardiff mags losing out in the PTC’s […]