So I got home with lots of loot from Gilroy. That place is definitely worth going to, even if it was about an hour's drive there. There are so many stores there with so many deals that if you don't find what you're looking for in one, there are four more stores worth looking at. I spent a solid 3 hours there and only went through about a quarter of ( Read more... )

I just read about a Scottish cardinal who quit Amnesty International over its support for abortions "in the case of rape, incest, sexual assault or when pregnancy represents a risk to the mother's life or a grave risk to her health." Because obviously if you're a privileged male whose risk of being sexually assaulted is minimal, it's more important ( Read more... )

Something to keep in mind when reading Londoner's responses to today's car bomb near Piccadilly Circus, is that bombs are not new to this city. The 7 July public transport bombs from two years ago killed an unprecedented number of people but there have been people prepared to kill and maim innocent London passers-by for fun and profit at least ( Read more... )

baaaaabyanimals celebrates Mother's Day in the US and some other countries with photos of mothers and their babies, e.g. a cat with her somewhat irregular brood or this cheetah.

I've moved my Firefox bookmarks to the social bookmarking site, del.icio.us, and added a link to the S2 link list in my LJ.

sunfell expounds on a backhanded marriage law that has been ( Read more... )

The Clerkenwell Road outside our offices has been closed off because of a labour demonstrations. From what I could see, the syndicalists were the largest single contingent, which reminds me of Kate Fox's observation of the most well-organised meeting she'd ever been to -- an anarchists meeting ( Read more... )

Carl Bildt was Swedish prime minister for the most conservative party in Sweden, Moderaterna, 1991-1994. Since then he has been politically active in Sweden, the Balkan states and elsewhere in Europe. He writes a blog with the subtitle "A European in Sweden on European and International Developments". I'm mentioning it here because I know several ( Read more... )

The Law Lords ruled that any information obtained using torture is inadmissable in British courts.

Francis Strand quotes Paul Krugman's NY Times column of today:For 25 years the right has been denigrating the public sector, telling us that government is always the problem, not the solution. Why should we be surprised that when we needed a government solution, it wasn't forthcoming?
Like Francis, I think that this really hits the nail on the head ( Read more... )