by nabidana | 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...
by nabidana | Apr 9, 2008 | politics
Brian Cowen, newly the Big Important Fellow From Offaly, has become Uachtarán Fhianna Fáil, and will, notwithstanding the possibility of the Greens and PDs going mental and bringing down the government, become an Taoiseach next month. This despite not having received...
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by nabidana | 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...
by nabidana | Apr 8, 2008 | politics
In the UK, David Cameron is leader of the Conservative party, and we haven’t got any firm policies to speak of, except the old truism ‘communism is bad, and you oughtn’t do any of it’. Gordon Brown is leader of the Labour Party and Prime...
by nabidana | May 13, 1972 | feminism, mediawatch, politics, unstupidity
The idea of the slutwalk, that most postmodern and reactionary of protest movements, is absolutely indefatigably right: women have the right to dress and act however they wish, and there is never a circumstance when it is acceptable for a woman to be attacked. As one...
