Missing the point on the Olympic Flame

by | Apr 10, 2008 | politics

Overheard in a chatroom (uttered by an American, obviously enough) last night: “People in London, they protest all the god-damned time.  Every time something happens they hate, they go protest about it.  We’re just not like that here” The Olympic...
Olympic Shame

Olympic Shame

by | Apr 9, 2008 | politics

I get no prizes for the frankly awful title of the blog post, but, as eny fule kno, the Olympic Games is not doing the trick of opening up China and setting the nation free from its history of dreadful human rights abuses. China responded to the challenge of openness...