Taking the PC, Too Far
The following account is deplorable in the extreme – that the final conclusion was made by a female judge baffles …
Monthly Archives: July 2010
The Alternative Twilight Ending
A little light jollity after a day of bleak news is in order, methinks: Personally, I love the Jacob cameo. …
Church Convenes “International Burn A Quran Day”
Yes, that’s right: for one church in Gainsville, Fla. it is not enough to commemorate the ninth anniversary of 9/11 …
Tunisia, the Cyber Wife-beater, Pt. 2
And so Tunisia’s shady love affair with democracy and censorship trots into another phase of contradiction. That the consistent infringement …
“Balancing” or Censorship?
It has not taken long for PM David Cameron’s likening of Gaza to a prison camp to draw ire: Foreign …
Cameron On Gaza
As much as it pains me to break with tradition and agree with a Tory, David Cameron is (ahem) right …
O, Barcelona
Let me be frank: the conference was a squib. The combination of upper thirties humidity, limited to no ventilation and …
Israel’s (Potential) Anti-Rights Legislation
Although this deserves so much more than a brief snippet and a link, my flight from Barcelona beckons and I …
Wife-tracker, Saudi-style
As Saudiwoman notes, you can run, but you can never hide when it comes to gender-based tracking in (and out …
Pomegranates and Myrrh
Running parallel to the conference through the week has been an Arabic film festival, comprising works from Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq …
