A Blip of Recruitment Creativity
As the endless trawl for jobs wears on, it is refreshing to discover not only an interesting new enterprise, but …
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Zahira Aitali (1980-2009)
… is another name that we should not forget as the global pandemic of wives and daughters dying in the …
PhotoHunt 157: Triangle
Today’s PhotoHunt theme comes in the shapely guise of the triangle: In this instance summoned from Wales, in the rather …
In A Literary Funk
The past few weeks have been biblio-hell, characterised by forages through teetering piles of books, the thumbing of opening pages, …
Marital Rape OK? Karzai Flip-Flops On Law
This story has been brewing quietly in the media the past few days, brewing because the Afghan President Hamid Karzai …
Abruzzo Earthquake
Earthquakes are tragedies in a whole other category: while we can allocate blame for the majority of catastrophes – including …
PhotoHunt 156: Stripes
This week’s PhotoHunt is stripes and I’m re-entering the photographic foray with the tardy cry of ‘easy!’ and the image …
Girl Flogged For Being In Proximity of Married Man
Admittedly, it is not the catchiest of post titles, but there comes a point when pixie-eared jauntiness must be laid …
Caption Time: SuperPolitico, Power Plugs, and Putin Jr.
The moment I saw this image on a French site I sizzled with glee at all the possibilities of cruel …
Cops Come Together For Cancer
The following story is utterly moving in the most beautiful way; there really is nothing like human compassion to pluck …
