by nabidana | Jun 18, 2010 | Northern Ireland
For decent, humanitarian, human-rights aware British people, this week has been both extremely affirming and incredibly painful. The affirmation is hard to express adequately, but it comes from the transcendent sense that we did the right thing this week. The...
by nabidana | Sep 11, 2009 | Uncategorized
September 11, 2001. Was in a BBC studio, talking about the new university year. Got a text message from a friend, who knew it was a rum do, but whose text seemed to suggest an accident. Simultaneously, a researcher from the newsroom interrupted the interview. In the...
by nabidana | May 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
The State, Britishness and Community In my previous post I covered why I liked what Conservatives stand for in Health, Education and Defence, and above all, in terms of Freedom, and what that means to me. In this post, I’m going to cover what it means to me to...
by nabidana | May 16, 2008 | technology
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, has now, for articles on conflict and recent history at least, been filed in my mental waste-paper basket. The policies on the site for Neutral Point of View (NPOV) editing, which are vital have come to mean nothing in circumstances...
