For Murdoch, and ITV, and anyone else who decides to buy a social network for the purpose of selling things to it aren’t buying a captive group. They’re buying Schrodinger’s Audience - the very act of opening the box may kill it.
Easter,1916 and Yeats' poem of the same name: truly a case where a historical event got shaped in our memories by a single brilliant nearly-contemporaneous interpretation.
I’ve started to see the role of columnists on tehgrauniad not as people on the spot, or people who were on the spot...but as secular preachers who tell us what we ought to believe, and do so more earnestly when their cause is improbable.
In what is curiously described as a shift from "a socialist to a free market economy", the Iraqi 'government' has decided to slash food rations for the poor.
The fact that Martin Jacques is a bit of a dick is one thing. But that doesn’t mean to say that all the hoo hah about universal principles isn’t problematic, especially when it comes to countries like China.
Don't you find it a little odd that Mary Creagh, the Labour MP who is worried that we all might burn ourselves has never formally objected to a government that approves of boiling people alive?
I am convinced that - if enough people use this word in this way - the world will soon become a more beautiful place. Begin your journey to a better life by letting the world know that Charles Clarke is a cunt.
Just by way of introduction: Rachel Corrie - even so harmless, so blonde, so white, so American and therefore pure a figure as she - is controversial in death. Having had her spinal chord severed and the life crushed out of her by an Israeli military bull
Just because a woman shoots down a guy with plucked eyebrows, a butt-crack on his chin and the souless dead eyes of a grouper it doesn't make her a lesbian.
The overwhelming number of people who come to this website do so for one reason alone, to look at a picture of an obese woman in a bikini.
Do we really believe that the U.S. military thinks that Russia had a spy in the middle of American war planning for Iraq or that Russia broke some American code and listened in on U.S. war preparations in 2003?
The great thing about British newspapers is that I always have to look up words to figure out what the hell they're talking about. Bomb plot suspect sold poisoned burgers, says supergrass:
Here's the latest from the AP's tendentious Nidra Pickler: "Founded by immigrants and praised as a haven for the oppressed, the United States now is struggling to decide the fate of as many as 12 million people living in the country illegally..." Send he
Lots of stuff and links on the David Mills/Tessa Jowell affair.
"Worried as I am, I have not written Europe off yet," writes America's most dependable laxative. Europe heaved a huge sigh of relief upon hearing the news, then went back to coddling its Muslims in order to furnish Mark Steyn with future columns.
One year ago today, I asked the readers of kottke.org to become micropatrons and support my efforts in producing the site for a year. I'm not going to be asking for contributions again.
Does this mean I can get Tony Blair and Charles Clarke suspended from office for offending me EVERY SINGLE BLOODY DAY with their illiberal attacks on pretty much everything that used to make this country a place I could be proud to live?
Dave's certainly back with a vengeance (in more ways than one) so go and check him out - before the medication wears off ;-)
The CBI were sanguine about swarthy suspects being sent to Guantanamo under the act but less happy when it was applied to wholesome white collar types. Where's Martin Niemöller when you need to misquote him?
Links to fiskings of Leon Wieseltier's review of Daniel Dennett's book 'Breaking the Spell'
Blogging has increasingly become more popular in China, with 52 percent of white-collar workers now keeping Weblogs...the Chinese white collar bloggers see complaining, and office and personal gossip as their priorities.
A quiet word of advice for Mr Akkari... when the car leaves the ramp and becomes airborne, you will find the steering wheel to be of very little use.
Reid seems to be suggesting that breaches of the established rules of warfare are excusable in a situation in which the warfare is abnormal. That breaches of the Geneva Convention should be ignored, because the situation in Iraq and Afghanistan is "specia