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 a tub of food at a…
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…
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 at the effects of globalization on…
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…
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.…
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,…