http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,828091,00.html
Who says the Germans don't have a sense of humour?
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Saturday, 14 April 2012
Spanish King having hip surgery
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17712841
I shouldn't laugh but there are a lot of shady missing details in this story. What was a 13 year old doing with a gun? Why was the 74 year old king hunting elephants? Do the Spanish monarchy not believe in bodyguards or are they just amazingly incompetent?
I shouldn't laugh but there are a lot of shady missing details in this story. What was a 13 year old doing with a gun? Why was the 74 year old king hunting elephants? Do the Spanish monarchy not believe in bodyguards or are they just amazingly incompetent?
Saturday, 31 March 2012
Nutters in Copenhagen
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17570464
So the English Defence League are meeting up with fellow thinkers on the continent. Seems like now might be a good time to introduce some of those tighter immigration laws that they have been calling for. A plebiscite to decide whether to revoke their passports, anybody?
Actually that might be a bit harsh on Denmark.
So the English Defence League are meeting up with fellow thinkers on the continent. Seems like now might be a good time to introduce some of those tighter immigration laws that they have been calling for. A plebiscite to decide whether to revoke their passports, anybody?
Actually that might be a bit harsh on Denmark.
Thursday, 15 March 2012
Thursday, 8 March 2012
Pro-nun-see-ate-shun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUoWoxpT_jU
The Internet has taken all of the fun out of going in to a postgraduate seminar and only having a sketchy idea of how to say the name of the author you're presenting on.
... good thing we can still get the wrong gender on occasion though. Bloody 'Kateb Yacine'.
The Internet has taken all of the fun out of going in to a postgraduate seminar and only having a sketchy idea of how to say the name of the author you're presenting on.
... good thing we can still get the wrong gender on occasion though. Bloody 'Kateb Yacine'.
Saturday, 3 March 2012
Politically obtuse
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00p138b/Empire_A_Taste_for_Power/
Ok Jeremy Paxman. Tough, investigative journalism is all well and good when you're talking to politicans who obviously have a hidden agenda. Asking the same question over and over again makes a good stunt and can actually reap some rewards by penetrating a professional facade.
Doing it in a documentary on the British Empire is just pathetic. There is no 'right' memory of how Empire was experienced. People are allowed to say that they think that the British were brutal colonisers who brought nothing good. Repeating the question until they embarrassedly say something positive or ambiguous about the British is not clever, it's just bullying through authority and leading questions.
Ok Jeremy Paxman. Tough, investigative journalism is all well and good when you're talking to politicans who obviously have a hidden agenda. Asking the same question over and over again makes a good stunt and can actually reap some rewards by penetrating a professional facade.
Doing it in a documentary on the British Empire is just pathetic. There is no 'right' memory of how Empire was experienced. People are allowed to say that they think that the British were brutal colonisers who brought nothing good. Repeating the question until they embarrassedly say something positive or ambiguous about the British is not clever, it's just bullying through authority and leading questions.
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