One of my favourite polemiscists is Mark Steel, he of the Independent who keeps nearly getting sacked for being way too left wing, I think he’s a very good writer who manages to get an intellectual point across whilst succeeding in making his readership laugh like drains.
Anyway I was going through his latest and thought [...]
Archive for November, 2007
An evening chuckle
Posted in UK politics, tagged Mark Steel on November 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Keeping up the other side
Posted in Religion, tagged Agnosticism, Atheism, Dawkins, Theism on November 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Whilst I’m on the subject of Atheism I thought I would include a link to a site through which many books countering the views of Richard Dawkins can be found.
I’m an agnostic, which basically means I have not made my mind up yet but I find fashionable Atheism to be somewhat distasteful plus any form [...]
A Teddy Bear called Mohommad
Posted in Religion, Utter Lunacy, tagged Sudan on November 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Sudan: In a case of religion gone absoloutely nuts, a teacher looks set to recieve 40 lashes from a whip for the incredible, breathtaking and heretical crime of letting her class of seven year olds name a Teddy bear after the prophet Mohommad.
Instances like this make me despair at the gross hypocrisy of religions which [...]
Oxford debate disrupted by violence
Posted in Civil Liberties, Events, Freedom of Speech, History, Libertarianism, Society, tagged BNP, Freedom of Speech, Oxford on November 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The controversial debate which saw the Oxford union invite Nick Griffin and David Irving to speak about freedom of speech was disrupted by anti-fascist groups in scenes of disorder and some violence.
I feel like I am repeating myself here but freedom of speech is a democratic value and yes it is tough when you have [...]
A round up of what Harvey found interesting in Sundays news
Posted in Events on November 25, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Letting Harvey go nuts with the computer (he’s so smart) I allowed him to pick out what he thought was important and then put it together.
BNP leader Nick Griffin and disgraced Historian David Irving have both been invited to talk at the Oxford University Union debating society and understandably there has been some fuss kicked up [...]
Apologies
Posted in Music on November 25, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’m aware I’ve been very quiet of late, I’ve had things going on etc etc and the usual boring set of excuses that nobody actually pays any attention to anyway oh well.
For anybody that in some mad way may be interested I will be appearing on the 5th of December for the college music night, [...]
Bye Bye
Posted in Political, tagged Australia, Kevin Rudd on November 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I read with interest that Australia has kicked out the Conservative administration of John Howard and replaced it with the Labour Administration and leadership of Kevin Rudd who as well as ratifying the Kyoto treaty is also set on withdrawing 500 Australian servicemen from Iraq.
Its a small piece of good news in amongst the mire [...]
Putting in the hours
Posted in College on November 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I seldom leave college before half six, its pointless trying to do so any time beforehand because the traffic is what you only describe as being more difficult to handle than a pre- menstrual hand grenade (trust me on that its just not fun)
Still there is nothing like the good feeling you get when you [...]
Its all down to those damn foreigners
Posted in Political, Society, UK politics on November 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I had to laugh today, it was a grim and depressed laugh but a laugh nontheless, people looked at me strangely, but then there is nothing odd about that.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith issued an emergency statement to MP’s in which she revealed that 1 in 5 foreign workers could be an illegal immigrant and that there [...]
