Current Affairs

I’ve often wondered whether the Express and the Mail are cynical or stupid in their coverage of asylum seekers and immigration. A strong voice for the ‘stupid’ lobby comes from a Committee hearing in Parliament, at which the editors of those two soiled organs gave evidence. The Express’s

US columnist slams the Weather Channel as part of the great liberal conspiracy (via MeFi).

A comparatively uninteresting article by Iain McWhirter on the Guardian website provokes an interesting set of responses on devolution and nationalism from the CiF crowd.

Glenn Greenwald attacks the lack of accountability in the American media, particularly in relation to the Iraq war.

From Salon.com. Twenty-five percent of the technology and engineering companies started in the United States between 1995 and 2005 had at least one key co-founder who was an immigrant, reports a new study from researchers at the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University. The researchers estimate that these

The lead story on today’s Mail, which I read in the barbers’, expresses the usual spluttering outrage at a campaign by the Revenue to reduce the number of people who underpay their tax. So paying tax is added to obeying speed limits as a law that should be optional

In case you had feared that Tony Blair had in some way ceased to be the most evil man who ever lived, a scourge on humanity and a ‘quisling’ as well, you’ll be pleased to hear from Comment is free that he hasn’t changed. Still evil, corrupt, etc.

Link: Michael Byers, The Law and Politics of the Pinochet Case, 10 Duke J. of Comp. & Int’l L. 415 (2000).

Old torturer and dictator Pinochet dies. Margaret Thatcher is ‘saddened’.