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It does raise the question of why they even have a website if they object to people linking to it.
Commented Apr 11, 2010 on The Nihon Keizai Shimbun is Run by Idiots at Foreign Dispatches
The Nihon Keizai Shimbun is Run by Idiots
It's one thing to put up pay walls for your news offerings, as Rupert Murdoch is foolishly intent on doing with his British properties, but it's another level of stupidity altogether to also seek to ban linking to your articles, as the Nikkei Shimbun is apparently trying to do. TOKYO — Japan’s l...
Surely you didn't like 'Pearl Harbour'.
Commented Nov 22, 2009 on The Ultimate Site for (Straight) Men at Foreign Dispatches
The Ultimate Site for (Straight) Men
What do you get when you combine two of the things straight guys love to look at most? A site like this. Doesn't Michael Bay have a patent on this already? PS: While we're at it, let me take this opportunity to say that I love Michael Bay's movies, and I do mean that in an entirely un-ironic wa...
I'd have said there's something about heavy drinking that turns them into assholes rather than being abroad. As two videos which have gone viral recently, of yobs taking on more than than they bargained for in Swansea and Merseyside demonstrate:
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/872983/hapless-thugs-pick-wrong-fight
Commented Oct 19, 2009 on A Hard Lesson in Respect at Foreign Dispatches
A Hard Lesson in Respect
There's something about traveling abroad that seems to turn many a Briton into a complete asshole; whether one can attribute this to a mental hangover from the days of Empire or to some other cause is unclear to me, but nevertheless, a great many British people seem to go out of their way to ann...
One thing that I will say in their favour is that at least they've admitted that their decision is down to cowardice and fear of violence.
Most of the newspapers that refused to reprint the images, despite their obvious pertinence to stories relating to the whole affair, went through ludicrous contortions to deny the blindingly obvious fact that they were scared to print them.
Commented Aug 14, 2009 on Who's Afraid of Mohammed? at Foreign Dispatches
Who's Afraid of Mohammed?
Yale University Press, that's who. It’s not all that surprising that Yale University Press would be wary of reprinting notoriously controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a forthcoming book. After all, when the 12 caricatures were first published by a Danish newspaper a few years ago ...
Agreed. It is a superb book.
I've recently been rereading his 'Culture' trilogy "Race & Culture", "Migration and Culture" & "Conquests & Culture" which are also incredibly good. The last one in particular.
Commented Jul 24, 2009 on Random Thoughts 2 at CentreRight
Random Thoughts 2
Inspired by Thomas Sowell's regular "random thoughts", here are a few minor observations: I know I won't get swine flu - I'm self-employed. It's raining a lot, isn't it - must be climate change. I see that Britain's only wind turbine factory is closing down. Isn't it interesting that the reaso...
Jade Goody, Princess Di and Susan Boyle- the people's princesses.
Commented Jul 11, 2009 on Which figures in British history do you think every patriot should know about? at CentreRight
Which figures in British history do you think every patriot should know about?
Yesterday, David Cameron responded to Tim’s open letter calling for patriotism to play a big part in the Conservative manifesto. An aspect of Tim’s suggestions was to improve young peoples’ shockingly poor knowledge of British history because it is difficult to love a country you know nothing ...
"in 2000 Blair made sure he was the first Western leader to meet Putin "
And that worked out appallingly with the British government giving diplomatic cover for Putin's transformation of Russia back into a totalitarian state, and the mass slaughter in Chechnya. Meanwhile Russia rewarded Blair's sucking up by practicing nuclear terrorism in London (the Litvinenko murder).
For once Brown is in the right.
Commented Jun 30, 2009 on Obama goes to Moscow next week. Will Brown ever make it? at CentreRight
Obama goes to Moscow next week. Will Brown ever make it?
Whatever one thinks about Vladimir Putin/ Dmitri Medvedev's government in Russia, one cannot deny that Russia is an important player in its own right, as well as in current hotspots like Iran, Afghanistan and North Korea, all of which border Russia or its former empire. President Obama clearly...
I find as hard to believe that stupidity is any more of an impediment for an actress than beauty.
Commented May 20, 2009 on Jessica Biel is Very Humble at Foreign Dispatches
Jessica Biel is Very Humble
If one were to believe a certain Miss Biel, it is actually a liability in Hollywood to be young and beautiful. Right, and the moon is made of green cheese ... Methinks such stupid statements - assuming they are accurate - suggest a different cause for Jessica Biel's difficulties landing better r...
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