I’ve used Flickr to organise my photos for a while now, and it’s been pretty good. They cap the free account at a certain number of photos, though, and then you have to start paying for it. I don’t see the point in paying for it when I already pay for web hosting, so I’m [...]
Shocking news.
Tariq Ali’s commentary is essential reading: his personal reflections are illuminating. A point he raises is that though in the short term the murder is likely to precipitate yet another crisis in Pakistan, in the long run it may provide a space for an authentic people’s movement to emerge without a dynastic leader who [...]
I am trying to work out whether Nick Clegg’s accession to the Liberal Democrat leadership is a good or a bad thing.
Certainly, we could do with some good news. There are three major domains in which the New Labour project has disappointed: its willingness to partake in neoconversative killing sprees; its illiberal eagerness to [...]
I’ve changed this site’s theme to the excellent Modicus Remix theme, based on the original Modicus theme by Upstart Blogger, and modified by Brad Mahaffey from
The Bali accord is the latest episode in the long running saga of the United States government’s shaky grasp on reality and consequent conflict with the main stream of global opinion. Apologists for America-appeasement should take note: it took the experience of isolation, facing the rest of the world community alone in its intransigence, for [...]
Just read a great article about the way so-called “subvertising” is no such thing: how it is merely another form of social distinction by consumer choices. Years ago, when I first came across Adbusters, I wrote them a long email arguing along the same lines – that any successes of grass roots consumer action are [...]
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