Why does Australia always seem to make the international news for completely embarrassing reasons?
Australia defends climate stance
Australian Treasurer Peter Costello has said there is “no point” in Australia signing the Kyoto Protocol on climate change unless China and India do too.
Australia, like the US, has refused to ratify the Kyoto agreement, but is set to […]
The Detroit Free Press is absolutely spot-on today in its analysis of how Bush’s Iraq policy is disintegrating.
While the Republicans were always 100% wrong in their hair-brained plans for Middle Eastern dominance, at least they used to stick with a clear and bullish message. However, in the President’s recent speeches on the topic, and especially […]
Amsterdam is a fine, beautiful, tranquil city. There is also the touristy, tacky red light district - which is mildly interesting as a voyeuristic spectacle, but should otherwise be avoided (unless you’re dying to get your hands on a copy of the Teenagers with Dogs DVD). Stay away from the centre, hire a bike and […]
Strangely entertaining recent stories about US Congressman Mark Foley.
Seems he was trying to form some kind of “coalition of the willies”.
Chuck Hagel, of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today claimed of his country that:
“We are the adult power in the world.”
This is slightly weird as a diplomatic statement. It certainly plays into the hands of those who would claim that the USA is an imperialist power, with strong echoes of the 19th century […]
After two weeks of time-hungry house-hunting, I have a new place!
And I am very pleased with it. I will now be living in an apartment block quite close to central London. Blocks of councilish housing may not sound very nice, but I actually quite like the apartment, which is small but colourful, and has a […]
Thankfully, finally, someone who the stupid mainstream press will listen to has admitted the rather obvious fact that, since a huge sector of the Iraqi people object to the presence of the American and British armies in their country, that presence is in itself contributing to ongoing violence.
See the article here.
Well der.
For another perspective on the nuclear holocaust that is now hanging over us (belligerant politicians on all sides cheering it on), the keen fact-seeker might try checking out the official North Korean news service - in its English version.
Strangley enough, however, there is nothing here on the English website about the DPRK’s latest and greatest […]
It has occurred to me recently that one of the defining national characteristics of the English is their love of apology. Indeed, nobody does apologetic like the English.
In the crowded public spaces of London, there is a constant low murmuring of thousands or perhaps millions of “sorries” per minute. I notice that many English will […]
I think “the next big thing”, meaning the next IT phenomenon that is going to seriously affect the world, might just be Second Life.
So what is it? Well, a Google search will tell you pretty quickly, or you can visit their hompage. Second Life is a virtual world, a massive three-dimensional space in which people […]