This UKIP Guy Is Selling "Bleach" As A Health Supplement
Political poison.
(tags: ukpolitics wankers )

Doctor Who: series 36, episode one - The Pilot
@guardian review.
(tags: doctorwho )

Boris Johnson makes pig's ear of Syria response
Lord Hannay on the state of UK diplomacy.
(tags: ukpolitics brexit eu syria )

Coercion, cash and culture: how to ( Read more... )

Present at the Creation
How ISIS really was created (part 1 of 3).
(tags: waronterror iraq syria )

Pro-EU folks in the UK: keep making your case, don’t apologise
Amen.
(tags: ukpolitics eu )

The UK won’t opt for CETA+ because it can't.
Canada not an option.
(tags: ukpolitics eu )

Story of Noah's Ark is proof that climate change does not exist, ( Read more... )

Why do planes still have ashtrays? Yes, I wondered about this too.
(tags: travel ) Record fine for company behind ‘staggering’ 46 million nuisance calls Hooray!
(tags: crime wankers ) Cameron's EU deal: the view from Brussels My friend Chris reflects.
(tags: eu ukpolitics )

• Hitting Back
  About domestic violence.
  (tags: crime sexandgenderandsexuality )
• Abyei on the edge after killing of top Dinka leader
  Appalling - UN offers military protection to local chief, Sudanese militia kill him anyway.
  (tags: southsudan )
• Sylvia Browne: is she for real?
  Short answer: no. Longer answer: yeugh, what a revolting and disgusting ( Read more... )

One of those days when I really should have just stayed in bed. Kept on missing train connections both going to work and coming home again; and when I stopped for a snack in Brussels North railway station, I went to pick up my laptop after I had finished eating, and realised it was gone.

My brand new laptop, nicked.

Bastards.

It could have been worse ( Read more... )

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Someone posted a message to the fr.soc.politique newsgroup earlier today asking: " Comite Tchetchenie " : Qui est le représentant du " Comite Tchetchenie " à l'OSCE et à l'UE ???????????????
and giving my name as the correct answer.

This is not true.

NB: See subsequent posts on Chomsky for more on this.

My post last Monday drew several responses on Chomsky's behalf, two of which were anonymous and somewhat vitriolic (one posted from an IP address in Spain, the other from Australia), as well as a link to Oliver Kamm. I have done Chomsky the honour of a little more background research, and will ( Read more... )

NB: See subsequent posts on Chomsky for more on this.

From yesterday's Observer: ...a journalist called Diane Johnstone made similar allegations in a Swedish magazine, Ordfront, taking issue with the official number of victims of the Srebrenica massacre. (She said they were exaggerated.) In the ensuing outcry, Chomsky lent his name to a letter ( Read more... )

This made me feel better:


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