Thinking I almost agreed with David Cameron! I had a real shock just now. Read a BBC News story about David Cameron talking shit, and actually found myself agreeing with part of it. (Well, at…
Thinking In-Dependence from Bondage This book seems worth reading. It looks at the work of Claude McKay and Michael Manley, an interesting combination, and more broadly…
Thinking Getting better all the time… I suppose now the Red Cross can be added to the list of dangerous subversives who deride the war in Iraq for…
Thinking I’m too speechless to compose a title for this This Islamophobia is astonishing! Well, really, I shouldn’t be astonished given the generally fucked up state of the nation, but I am.…
Thinking Guardian Books I should read this more often. It actually has some interesting stuff. This week there’s Paulo Coelho on the Seven Deadly Sins,…
Thinking Absolutely mindless I think Lord Acton was wrong: power doesn’t corrupt. It lobotomises. Consider Michel Platini, for example. Gifted footballer, intelligent analyst of the game, articulate opponent of Lennart Johansson…
Thinking Fortress Europe From United Against Racism comes this list of 8,855 refugees who have died throughout Fortress Europe since 1993. The amount of drowning,…
Literary events Novel Award I will enter this contest by October. Also the Jo Cowell Short Story Contest (8 June), the Keats-Shelley prize (30 June), Wellington…
Thinking Financing Terrorism This is a bit old, but I wanted to make note of it so I can find it again later. From Narco…