After much brouhaha on the Supreme Court ruling last month regarding rights of expression online, it was summarized that this ruling merely implied that the defendant was not excused from prosecution. We can argue ad nauseaum about the merits of such a ruling but the fact remains that the defendant ...

More information is becoming available about the Christopher Hitchens brawl. It appears to have been a telling moment in Decency. The crucial detail is that Hitchens didn't just deface any old SSNP artefact - he scrawled on the monument to the first shots fired in resistance to the Israeli occupatio...

Reader Beth Elliott suggests a truly fiskworthy song, Ironic by Alanis Morissette . It is the diametric opposite of Who Moved My Cheese - change is portrayed as always bad, sometimes in a lethal manner. Did this make it into the soundtrack of those Final Destination movies? Here's the complete lyric...

So once again, Israel has opened the gates of hell to the Palestinians. Forty civilian refugees dead in a United Nations school, three more in another. Not bad for a night’s work in Gaza by the army that believes in “purity of arms”. But why should we be surprised? READ THE WHOLE I...

Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free (S02E01) "Actually, I take that back. You should be scared. You should be terrified." - Ellen Payback's a bitch, ain't it? Not if you're Ellen Parsons - then it's a slow, methodical, patience-testing process where it apparently take...

David Baldinger: http://davidbaldinger.blogspot.com/ So once again, Israel has opened the gates of hell to the Palestinians. Forty civilian refugees dead in a United Nations school, three more in another. Not bad for a night's work in Gaza by the army that believes in "purity of arms"...

The Grauniad asked 21 of its opinion writers to make predictions for 2009. As a service, and to force Daniel Davies' hand into starting his planned Predictions-L mailing list, I've shorterised each one and reflected briefly on it. The full texts are here. 1) Jackie Ashley thinks the Lib Dems may be ...

It is come to this. Here is our Secretary of State for Culture: The culture secretary, Andy Burnham, says in an interview today that the government is considering the need for "child safe" websites – registered with cinema-style age warnings – to curb access to offensive or damaging online mater...

På Vest-Lista, på klipper og fremspring helt i sjøkanten finnes noen merkverdige groper i berget. De er som forstørrede skålgroper å se til. Noen spesielt karakteristiske eksemplarer finnes på Sedberget mellom Jølle og Håle. Forklaringen som gis lokalt på gropene, er at de er minner fra de...

No wonder the Indy's moving in with the Daily Mail; it's taken to publishing leaders like this one, a crude bit of hard right culture war stuff which blames the Sharon Matthews case on "welfare". Yes, really. They also rehearse the old Peter Lilley thing about "single mothers who get pregnant just t...