My good friend and blogger Splintered Sunrise has been praising someone called Max Keiser to the skies, describing the addictive phenomenon as “worse than crack”. I take that to mean Class A powder and not builders’ low pants line. At long last I took a peek at Splinty’s video of a recent programme on robot […]
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Charles Shaar Murray’s spankin’ new blog Sorry I’ve been away for a while but I’ve been constructing Charles Shaar Murray’s site which is now LIVE and it’s a little beauty. (I think so, anyhow. But do let me know what you think.) I know precious little about webdesign. I use Blogger because it sets it
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Charles Shaar Murray’s spankin’ new blog Sorry I’ve been away for a while but I’ve been constructing Charles Shaar Murray’s site which is now LIVE and it’s a little beauty. (I think so, anyhow. But do let me know what you think.) I know precious little about webdesign. I use Blogger because it sets it
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Even Radio 4 is at it. Hard on the heels of last week’s Sherlock oriental hate-fest, my beloved BBC Radio 4 has just broadcast someone called Miles Jupp presenting a thinly disguised bit of sinophobia celebrating one of the most notorious exercises in colonialist literature: Fu Manchu In Edinburgh. While it’s valid to explore the
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Last night’s Farrago Summer Poetry Slam, hosted by the tireless John Paul O’Neill, was another wonderful evening of poetry from a wide range of performers. I love these events as they allow beginners to try their material in a friendly atmosphere, as well as veterans of the circuit like Fran Landesman, now in her 80s,
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Pic of Tsagaan Khas (‘White Swastika’) by Dan Chung, Guardian Oh, bloody brilliant! That’s all we need in east Asia: non-Aryans doing that turkey-voting-for-Christmas thang and celebrating a ideology that would send us all to a most unpleasant end. Tania Branigan writes in the Guardian: It is, by any standards, an extraordinary choice. Under Hitler,
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