Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Condoleezza Rice. Media, Iran, US Politics on September 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
According to Reuters the Iranian presidents visit to the US is not serving to bridge the gap in foreign relations.
“The Evil Has Landed” was the front-page headline in New York’s Daily News newspaper, reporting outrage among U.S. critics who say a Holocaust denier blamed by Washington for supporting terrorism should not be given a platform at one [...]
Posted in Music, Trent and Eric on September 24, 2007 | No Comments »
I thought perhaps I ought to include an entry about music for once in a while.
Understandably you can imagine I’ve been busy what with starting college and all the multitude of new horizons that has opened up. It would appear that I’ll be doing a regular politics column in the college newsletter; that should earn [...]
Posted in Censorship, China, Freedom of Information, Human Rights on September 21, 2007 | No Comments »
I’m often amazed at how quickly nations pick themselves back up after the worst humiliations of war, genocide, famine and near to total destruction; it speaks volumes about the innate resilience of the human race.
You have to consider when terrible things take place the challenges to a population to move on and get on must [...]
Posted in CWU, Postal Strike, Public Services, Royal Mail, Unionism on September 21, 2007 | No Comments »
The talks between Royal Mail and the CWU broke down over a week ago and though an extended period of calm was agreed it was clear that the Union would be announcing a new program of strikes unless there was a radical shift in attitude by the management.
Royal Mail has forged ahead with the implementation [...]
Posted in Personal on September 20, 2007 | Comments Off
I thought seeing as the Post Office has been a major part of my life for the last five years, I ought to do a little piece about my time there and what has changed, why and how I feel about it all, it’ll be amazingly boring for most but I’ve never failed to be amazed [...]
Posted in Discussion, Philosophy, democracy on September 19, 2007 | No Comments »
According to the ethos behind Platos’ republic, goodness and reality are timeless, the best state will naturally be one which most closely resemble the heavenly model or ideal, it must do this by a minimum of change and by static perfection, perfect obviously being complete, a perfect state will cease to progress or regress merely [...]
Posted in College, Personal on September 17, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Well here I am back at school and though I was slightly concerned that time may have moved on and I’d be a relic of irrelevance in a world of youthful energy, my fears have proved unfounded.
Today as I sat in class I heard the pleasant droning of the summer outside, there was a slight [...]
Posted in Anti-War, Culture, History, Iraq, Robert Fisk on September 17, 2007 | No Comments »
In todays Independent I read a report by Robert Fisk which brought to light the destruction of archeological sites across Iraq and ancient Mesopotamia, it seems that in the absence of any real authority in the region, looters have taken over sites in an effort to recover artifacts for sale on the black market.
Cities such [...]
Posted in Anarchism, Animal Rights, Civil Liberties, Fox Hunting, Freedom, Idiocy, Libertarianism, Society, UK politics on September 10, 2007 | No Comments »
Its about time I made my feelings on foxhunting perfectly clear; its a contentious issue for sure and one that raises many heated arguments.
I live in a predominantly Tory, Countryside Alliance area and I have grown more than a little weary of the continued use of car bumper stickers protesting the injustice of the foxhunting [...]
Posted in Anarchism, Belief, Freedom, Libertarianism, Patriotism, Political, Society on September 5, 2007 | 8 Comments »
I’ve often ruffled feathers with my stance on Patriotism, I don’t see why it should ruffle feathers after all I’m not actively involved in sedition or anything in fact the very title of this post is completely fallacious in that I’m not an Anti-Patriot I’m just not a Patriot.
This is of course part of a [...]
