List of people who "support terrorism" according to teh internets and google: Joe Lieberman, news media, Eritrea, USA, Karen Hughes, Hugo Chavez, Austria, Pakistan, ISI, Barack Obama, Richard Perle, Saudi Arabia, Norway, the war on drugs, Sharon Stone, Google, NRA, Cindy Sheehan, Mahmoud Abbas, John Roberts, Oprah Winfrey, organised crime, file ( Read more... )

Last weekend Terry Eagleton was complaining about the lack of politically-engaged writers in Britain. I'm not sure what politics he expects them to support, other than opposing the war in Iraq, which will surely be over in a couple of years and then all the world's radicals will have to find something new to get upset about. Whilst insulting ( Read more... )

George W Bush said on 20 September 2001 "Americans are asking, why do they hate us? ... They hate our freedoms -- our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other." (source) So how come Dinesh D'Souza (author of The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11) is ( Read more... )

Today it becomes illegal in Britain to glorify terrorism, which is defined as the use of violence against people or property for political aims. Today I would like to glorify the following terrorists ( Read more... )

Today's readings are taken from Timothy J Madigan and Ted Honderich.

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John Lanchester on Tavistock Square/Russell Square/Woburn Place/a street of many names, where a nuclear chain reaction was first conceived, two bombs blew up on buses 9 years apart, and up a sidestreet Yeats lost his virginity. A great little piece on city and memory.

The Internet Is ShitA parable of culpability. If you leave a gun lying in the ( Read more... )