Anybody been watching "Hard Talk"?
Saw final ten minutes last night, but the whole repeated interview tonight. Sarah Montague speaking to Republican critic of Trump Jeff Flake....
...no previous experience necessary. No, I'm not making it up - well, OK, the surgery bit. Apparently on Obama's watch it was decided that Air Traffic Control in the States was "too white", so the...
I was going to use "Pseuds' Corner" as the title, then I realised that the following quote by a Peter Gordon doesn't even make it past Grade 1 Stupid. Background to story. Novelist Lionel (it's a...
BBC news. Re Italian election. Italian analyst describing "populism" as contagious. How did the Italian voters catch this disease? Where did it come from? Rats? Fleas on rats? What can we do about...
Anybody been watching this series on BBC4? Watched the second episode ("Freedom" - it was about the slave trade and emancipation) last night. Surprised (not for the first time) by how many things I...
https://citizen.co.za/news/news-world/1945715/miss-america-pageant-bans-swimsuits-and-judging-contestants-on-appearance/ Good news for fat feminists everywhere: you can enter the contest and, rather...
Welcome back, Anjem. Good to see you again.. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/police-prepare-for-extremist-clashes-on-preacher-s-release-xlj923s9c Well, we've got far-right agitator Tommy Robinson...
...British educated Indian Muslim Ed Husein from conventional, but easy-going Sunni background..being interviewed by Zainab Badawi. He explains his own radicalisation by stuff he read as a sixteen...
...for Eurosceptics, I mean. Am watching Sky News. Apparently a coalition of "ditch the euro" parties is not allowed to have a "ditch the euro" finance minister. Not EU/sharia compliant you see - "No...
(Displayed on chyron while I'm watching Hard Talk interview with Egyptian feminist). I guess the Ayatollah is soliciting European support for his nuclear program as the cost for earning a few euros by...
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Golden_Bough/The_Myth_and_Ritual_of_Attis Well, the emasculation was self-inflicted. Only chucked it in to amuse a certain young actress (Golden Bough, Kval)....
Anybody seen the BBC's coverage of the Lords' vote asking the Government to modify its stance on leaving the EU Customs Union? In the debate ("Article 50") Kerr proposed a new economic law: "As...
Anybody see C4's Dispatches (for some reason not shown last week when it was first advertised)? Are/were any of you guys aware of Muslim advocacy groups like MEND and CAGE? What did you make of it?...
Zeinab Badawi interviews Martin Luther King's daughter. No respecter of persons our Zeinab. Just like Stephen Sackur she doesn't hold back from asking all the tough questions, even when addressing the...
Anybody watched it? You can't keep a good man down, can you? Did you catch the finer points? Arguing against the populist "reclaiming our sovereignty" position NHS health reform Ken pointed out that...