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Case of Azhar Ahmed – Grossly Offensive Justice
The sort of foul language that Azhar used in his Facebook posting is frequented by ineloquent teens on a daily basis. This prosecution seems politically charged.
Case of Azhar Ahmed – Live blog
Live blog on the case of Azhar Ahmed, who will appear before Dewsbury Magistrates Court on a charge relating to allegedly ‘racially aggravated’ Facebook behaviour
Parliamentary Shocker
The story of an MP’s shocking response to a constituent’s question about Israel’s assault on Gaza
Thoughts on a Deeply Troubled Land
I’ve been interested in the Israel-Palestine conflict since 2007. A few weeks ago I visited Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. I wrote this piece in the last few days as a follow-up to my ...
Our News Sources
“We are controlled by an illusion of democracy based on rigged political parties and rigged elections. … We can vote for the Conservative party to attack ‘threatening’, but in fact defenceless, Third World countries, or ...
A Truly Crucial Obligation
The following is a piece I’ve choreographed, whose component quotations all derive from Pinter’s Art, Truth & Politics… Power The United States “now occupies 702 military installations throughout the world in 132 countries… We don’t ...
The Assault on Morality
The last time that I voted was earlier this year in the council elections. I advocated that people vote for the Green Party since it is the only party which takes climate change as seriously ...
‘Celebrity bullshit’
In my last post I wrote: For instance, regularly the mainstream media subordinates climate change stories to what newspapers editors clearly think are more important issues – these issues can range from ‘celebrity bullshit’ to ...
Nothing matters if you are dead
One philosophical question that always crops up on my mind is: can you ‘rate’ pain? Although, I am still not convinced either way, I do think that it’s fair to say that if you’re dead, ...
Iran in The Times
Yesterday’s The Times newspaper featured this article on its front-page, entitled Iran could make an atom bomb. I urge you to read it while bearing the following in mind: Israel has one of the largest ...
Iran
I despair at the events that are happening regarding the ‘discovery’ that Iran has built a ‘secret’ nuclear station. I first heard this ‘news’ a couple of days ago on BBC Radio 4.
There’s a reason why it’s so cheap
Primark’s products are undoubtedly extremely inexpensive. Whereas the thought of a Primark ‘bargain’ excites some people, whenever I see a Primark shopping bag, I become quietly impassioned. There is a reason why Primark is so ...
1984 Internet just arrived
Plan to monitor all internet use Source: BBC It is fresh out of 1984: “Communications firms are being asked to record all internet contacts between people as part of a modernisation in UK police surveillance ...
Policy oppositon argument strategy
I love argumentation; I have created a basic argument strategy for opposing policy proposals. This post is essentially a “knowledge deposit” for myself and others who may want to bookmark this post for future interest. ...
Obama and Change
I have always been enormously cynical about Barack Obama. In the UK, it is fair to say, we get less involved with ‘emotion politics’ than in the USA. In the UK, I think most of ...
‘It is not possible to predict earthquakes’
“Major earthquakes can be predicted months in advance, argues UCLA seismologist and mathematical geophysicist Vladimir Keilis-Borok. “Keilis-Borok, 82, has been working on earthquake prediction for more than 20 years.”
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