Never the right time
On the one hand...'Helen Brayley, from University College London's Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science, said people should not draw hasty conclusions.'Ms Brayley, who wrote the first...
View ArticleAsh Wednesday
Technology changes, the nuts and bolts of the human condition not so much. After a sustained campaign to interest me in two billion per cent APR credit cards, this morning my Yahoo mailbox was...
View ArticleLibya: a just war?
William Oddie, an eminent precursor on the road to Rome, argues that the air strikes on Libya meet the Catholic church's five criteria for a just war. He writes persuasively, but I find that the...
View ArticleMen are a waste of space, and the BBC has the stats to prove it
Two BBC stories from the same day, unconnected but offering an instructive contrast. From the first:- 'Almost 100 women are killed by partners or ex-partners each year, figures show. 'And 21 men died...
View ArticleChristians rejoice?
I was going to start this post by observing that I do not expect to read a more inane reaction to the killing of Osama bin Laden than Cristina Odone's attempt to construct a (im-)moral equivalence...
View ArticleLondoners, don't vote for Ken! (reason no. 953)
Very much a last minute job, this. Blame moving house, changing my religion etc. Plus I really thought that someone in the MSM would have a long enough memory to pick up on this one. In fact someone...
View ArticleSchadenfreuderealpolitikbeansproutthing
Warning: this post contains tasteless schadenfreude*.OK, I know the new E. coli outbreak is no laughing matter. But you would need a heart of stone not to crease up at the news that, after initially...
View ArticleHave I got this right?
'This is not helped by a quiet resurgence of the seductive language of "deserving" and "undeserving" poor, nor by the steady pressure to increase what look like punitive responses to alleged abuses of...
View ArticleRaising awareness of the stakeholders in the room
John Rentoul reaches out to us to share his concerns and issues around clichés. What's not to like? Though I do hope I won't be named and shamed. And I fear Mr Rentoul himself may be teetering on the...
View ArticleHeadline of the week
Virgin warns infected customersAnd courts risk of being sued under the Trades Descriptions Act?Sorry, couldn't resist it.
View ArticleUnderstatement of the month
From the findings of the investigation into the American Catholic TV presenter Fr John Corapi by his religious order:-“Holds legal title to over $1 million in real estate, numerous luxury vehicles,...
View ArticleExtreme varieties of nothinginparticularism
Edwin Greenwood notes that, whilst British media types have complied meekly with Indian officialdom's belated two-fingered gesture towards the Raj of turning Bombay into Mumbai, the locals are less...
View ArticleGoose and gander: a somethingveryspecificist strikes
This should not be a day for point-scoring, but inevitably the point-scoring is in full swing. And I really was pulled up short when I realised what my last post had been.For today neither the BBC nor...
View ArticleLibya: Mr Grumpy in "over-optimism" shock
Back in March I wrote a post on Libya in which I suggested six possible outcomes of Western military intervention, five of which were likely to be worse than the outcome of leaving Gaddafi to get on...
View ArticleBishops and the riots
I can't make up my mind. What has been the most helpful reaction to this week's events from the Church of England?On the one hand, there's this from the Archbishop of Canterbury:-(hat tip: Damian...
View ArticleReorganisation time
I've been bothered for some time about the mismatch between this blog's title and url on the one hand, and the contents of most of my recent posting on the other. That's why (as the politicians say)...
View ArticleAnti-Zionism at the Proms: the Big Lie
Did you know that Max Bruch's Violin Concerto is a fiendishly cunning piece of Zionist propaganda? That anyone listening to it live is at severe risk of going home convinced that you can't do better...
View ArticleThose sectarian tensions in full
Following clashes between Christians protesting about the burning of a church (not such a very big deal surely - if it had been we'd have reported it) and the army, 25 people are dead. Not much we can...
View ArticleSolidarity with Egypt's Christians: a little bit of action
I've just signed a petition here. Only takes a minute. (hat tip)
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