One of the real joys of visiting Dr Crippen’s blog is his knack of getting right to the bone of the issue… Most death certificates are no more than a doctor’s best guess as to cause of death. Some are works of speculative fiction. A death certificate usually […]

I don’t know, you spend all fucking day arguing the need for common sense and rationality in dealing with the complexities of Middle-Eastern politics and then you come across this… Iranian regime opponents need more support The more I think about it, the more I believe the most […]

After writing my last piece on the Mohammed Cartoon issue, I did promise myself I’d stay off the issue of Middle Eastern regional politics until I’d more clearly formulated my thoughts into an essay on anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and the realpolitik of the region but – and isn’t there […]

I’ve drawn a few comments on my posts on the general air of hysteria and hypocrisy surrounding the “Muhammed Cartoons” which, for no better reason that I feel like it, I’ve decided to address openly in a post rather than in the comments. On Sunday, I made some […]

Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not compatible with the rights to a decent existence of the weak and the […]

Apropos of my last post I find this story on the Beeb… Pressure on police over protest Police are coming under political pressure to explain why no arrests were made during demonstrations in which protesters chanted threatening slogans. The protests on Friday in London over cartoons of the […]

Well there’s no doubt what the story of the week has been – the Danish ‘Muhammed’ cartoons and the furore they’ve stirred up all over the place. I’m not going to dwell overmuch on what’s been said, and is still being said, either in the dead tree press […]

Like Spyblog, I noticed Home Office Minister, Andy Burnham, out and about yesterday on the breakfast TV circuit hawking the government’s latest ‘research’ into the supposed costs of identity fraud. The news is, of course, ‘bad’ – it always is when the government are trying to justify unpopular […]

Was going to write something – usual hoots of derision stuff – about the idea of having ‘Pet Police’, but Longrider’s nicely saved me the time and is well worth a visit. Go there and enjoy and then ponder this – based on what you’ve just read, how […]

German ad boss apologises to bloggers The leader of a campaign to cheer up German citizens has been forced to apologise after dismissing weblogs as “the toilet walls of the internet”. Jean-Remy von Matt, the head of the leading German advertising agency Jung von Matt, fired off a […]