One of the speakers at the Enough! launch rally lat night was Sharif Omar, a Palestinian farmer. He told the familiar tale of repression, of how the stringent permit laws and officious permit-issuing authorities prevent his sons from gaining free access to his own farm; of how a man of his sixty years needs [...]

Last night Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre used the Hugh Cudlipp lecture to the beat the BBC for its stifling political correctness and left-wing bias. (The editors of the Guardian have printed a transcript, presumably to demonstrate their more open and embracing form of liberalism.)
His basic line of argument - that a national, tax-funded media [...]

Lest we forget
Calling time on ASI bullshit

A 2007 warning: the world’s twelve worst ideas
OpenDemocracy: The world is full of conformism masquerading as profundity, says Fred Halliday, who explodes twelve global falsehoods.

Bangladesh Barta: The blog of a VSO volunteer in Bangladesh. Could prove interesting in the coming weeks.

Have you ever heard the story of Emperor Norton? It’s one of those bizarre little curiosities of American history, the San Franciscan who declared himself Emperor of the United States (and sometime Protector of Mexico) in 1859 and remarkably found that many of the inhabitants of his home city accepted him as such. He never [...]