Month: July 2005

Congratulations to London and the U.K. for winning the right to host the 2012 Summer Olympics! The U.K. deserves it, not having hosted an Olympic games since the 1940s or 50s (I forget which).  

An initiative will be launched today to nudge policymakers away from seeing successful book lending and the encouragement of reading as the prime goals of Britain’s public library service. Instead the emphasis should shift...

The lobbyist Jack Abramoff Owned “Signatures”, a well to do trough. But old Tom Delay It seems never would pay, Comped his plate of hundred dollar pilaf. (four more after the fold, plus hate mail!)In Singapore they...

If you told me that you were about to be captured and tortured by a ruthless enemy and held for over seven years in squalid conditions, I’d tell you to study the teachings of the Buddha and Epictetus. They represent two...

In the recent thread on setting up a “Commonwealth Tribune” or similar, I displayed a possibly unhealthy amount of enthusiasm with regard to contributing articles from an Australian/NZ/generally southern hemisphere...