Posted in China, Human Rights, Political, UK politics, US Politics, World on April 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Amnesty International has released it’s report on the use of the Death Penalty across the globe during the year 2007. It estimates that official executions claimed the lives of 1252 individuals with the largest amount of executions taking place in the People’s Republic of China. The official count in China stands at least 470 but [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I thought perhaps I should, for the benefit of those who may happen upon this sad waste of webspace and consider it’s endless uselessness that I might refer to that touchy subject of mental illness, Yes it’s an unfortunate fact that some of us so happen to suffer from it, but the few points I’d [...]
Posted in My Head, Uncategorized on April 23, 2008 | No Comments »
This particular time I think I’ve grown up, it is in the lack of school uniform and the setting of a bar that I feel we may have just about managed to move onto the next stage of this interminably dull process of misapproriating ideas until the mental structure they constitute has been diluted enough so [...]
Posted in Economy, Labour, Political, UK politics, tagged Alistair Darling, Budget 2008 on April 20, 2008 | No Comments »
It’s everybodies favourite Chancellor again. Alistair Darling today resisted calls for a U-turn on his abolishment of the 10p tax bracket. Denying that he has managed to increase the tax burden for 5.4 million people he nonetheless succeeded in tangling himself up in knots in his interview for BBC News, Dichotomously arguing that he wants to [...]
Posted in China, Civil Liberties, Economy, Events, Free Market, Freedom of Speech, Government, Human Rights, Political, UK politics, democracy, rant, tagged Beijing Olympics on April 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I wanted to write a post about the protests that have taken place around the world as the olympic torch has been carried from nation to nation in a badly judged public relations exercise by the Chinese Administration.
When I got plane to return to the UK I saw the scenes that greeted the Olympic relay [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 9, 2008 | No Comments »
My trip to Greece was one of those experiences which becomes a nostalgic memory even as you live the very moment that you know years later you will still want to be present in. I don’t believe I can do my time justice with the barely adequete command of the English language but I’d like [...]
Posted in UK politics, World, tagged Zimbabwe Elections on April 2, 2008 | No Comments »
The events in Zimbabwe have been of utmost interest, not only as thousands upon thousands of people attempt to shake off the death grip of Robert Mugabe against all the odds but as the UK government focuses attention away from the uprising in Tibet and brings it to bear upon its old colony. On Monday [...]
Posted in China, Civil Liberties, Human Rights, UK politics, Uncategorized, tagged Beijing Olympics on April 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Amnesty International has released a report which claims that Human Rights in China have not been furthered by the oncoming Olympic Games but have actually worsened as dissidents and activists face severe repression in an attempt by the Chinese Authorities to present a united and harmonious front for their games.
The organisation has called for the [...]
