First Aid Kit
Still very much on my Scandinavian kick, it is bearing fruits that will ensure the phase will not end for …
Category Archives: Europe
Two Hearts, One Mind
The caption possibilities are endless. All submissions welcome. Meanwhile, sit back and muse at how two utter cornuti ended up …
The Sweetest Insult
Courtesy of Oscar Wilde, Lord of the Put-downs: He is some brainless beautiful creature who should be always here in …
The Inexorable March of Neo-Orientalism
The following article by Soumaya Ghannoushi insightfully addresses the media’s inability to disassociate Islam with war, instability and repression. An …
Hello Wasta, It’s Been A While
Whether it is the relentless passage of time, the inexorable progress of age or merely the corrosive rot of cynicism, I …
Owning the Night: Nature’s Last Patriarchal Frontier
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream …
Best of the Rest: A History of Silvio Berlusconi’s Sex-Scandal Sketchiness
Because if we’re honest, it’s been hard to keep up with the septugenarian Prime minister. Mercifully, Jezebel have provided a …
Hijab Haters
In 1992 the Egyptian-American writer on Islamic feminism, Leila Ahmed, observed the following in her book Women and Gender in …
Narnia
Before the Aslan-Witch smackdown, naturally:
A Winter’s Walk
Gently falling snow, dim street lights, trees, church bells, dusk… Almost Victorian. I half expected a country urchin to gambol …
