Strange experience in a public toilet
I was coming out of a public toilet in central London today (Paternoster Square, near St. Paul’s, if anyone’s interested), when I saw a strange sign on the…
Rip Your Heart in Two
The Sunday papers often have sad stories. People with cancer, children needing transplants. Tug-at-the-heart-strings-over-your-tea-and-Cornflakes stuff. This Sunday’s Observer was different, though. The…
Good on you, Hugh!
It’s not often that I support violence, but in this case I completely support Hugh Grant, who is in trouble for throwing…
If it’s good enough for Einstein…
It’s funny how conservatives always complain about left-wing thought dominating academia. They set up absurd organisations like Campus Watch dedicated to rooting…
Mao: Crazy or not so Crazy? Discuss.
Monthly Review has one of those articles on its webiste that makes you sit up and take notice. It’s title: Did Mao Really Kill Millions in the Great…
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…
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…
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…