I'm sure you will all have heard about Aung San Suu Kyi's (further) imprisonment by now, but if not, here's the basic story: Aung San Suu Kyi is basically the legitimate ruler of Burma, but the Junta have kept her out of power and also kept her in detention for 13 of the last 19 years. She has just been sentenced to another 18 months in detention ( ( Read more... )

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This is from when I went to the FCO last Monday. It's actually a pretty rubbish video overall, so feel free to skip to 2:30. ;)

(Link: http://www.bsn.

Life has been as wonderful as Oxford always is of late ( Read more... )

Well, as ever I have been rubbish at LJing while in Oxford, but I've finally found some time to blog a little. Or a lot, as there's quite a bit to cover; unfortunately I wont be able to go into as much depth as I'd have wanted.

Contents:
Picnic
Chinese ambassador
April 30th
Linguistics Pub Crawl
Cinema Paradiso
Age of Empires
Punting
Staying awake
AI - ( Read more... )

Despite my best intentions, I failed at updating regularly while in Oxford... sigh... In my defence, it was a manically busy term. Here's what I was up to ( Read more... )

Woah, I haven't updated in ages! Uni always seems to do this, and I always feel guilty for neglecting internet friends and home friends who rely on the internet to communicate with me afterwards. So here is an update!

Life at Oxford is always busy, but this term has been more so than usual. I feel like I'm doing a crazy amount of things, but I also ( Read more... )

I made this card to send to a prisoner of conscience for Amnesty International today. Well, actually, two prisoners of conscience in China, a married couple, one of whom is in prison and the other, with her infant daughter, under house arrest.

It's not brilliant because I'm not terribly artistic, but I do creative stuff like this so infrequently I ( Read more... )

In 2006, 153 countries of the UN voted in support of the creation of an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) to curb the irresponsible trade and transfer of weapons and ammunition. This would prevent weapons reaching the hands of terrorists, insurgents and human rights abusers. Only one contemptible government voted against - that of the United States of ( Read more... )

I've almost finished reading La Peste for the second time, and like the first time, I feel really inspired. I feel I understand what Camus was saying, and the difference between him and Sartre, much better now - largely thanks to a random book attacking atheism which I found and flicked through in a bookshop. Sartre holds the view that man can, in ( Read more... )

You may remember that I won this CD (actually 2 CDs) recently from Amnesty International, as long as I posted a review about it on my blog. So here it is ( Read more... )