If ‘causing distress’ is an argument for censorship, why restrict yourself to fiction, or fictionalisation? … Read the rest
Makeshift Shrine in Memory of Dear Baby Chicken 
Oct 26th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
People of Oakfield Road decline to believe chicken is chicken.… Read the rest
Flowers, Tributes Left for Recent Egg
Oct 26th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Well-wishers left bunches of flowers at the scene, along with cards and teddy bears.… Read the rest
Wot’s a Dead Chicken Want With a Teddy Bear?
Oct 26th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Or flowers? Who knows, but it’s safe in the arms of Jesus, so that’s good.… Read the rest
UK Sociologist Testifies in ID Case, Cites Behe
Oct 26th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Cards are stacked against radical, innovative views getting a fair hearing in science these days.’… Read the rest
Complicity with Complicity
Oct 25th, 2005 11:25 pm | By Ophelia BensonA kind reader sent me such an interesting announcement – which included the injunction at the top ‘Please Circulate Widely’ – so I will! Nobody’s ever said I’m not obliging. (That’s an arrant falsehood, of course, but never mind.)
I should warn you though – this adventure took place October 20 – so that was last week – so it’s over. So you can’t go. So don’t get all excited, because you can’t go.
You’ll really wish you could, though, when I tell you where it was held. In the ‘Namaste Lounge’ – that’s where. I’m not making it up.
There was a ‘panel on the questions surrounding racialized sexualized politics within
the neoliberal political economy through an understanding of … Read the rest
Carry No Dead Badgers nor Hoopoes nor Bats
Oct 25th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Like some eager perfectibilian schoolboy, believing it can banish cultural frictions from the earth.… Read the rest
Rosa Parks
Oct 25th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.’… Read the rest
Reporters Without Borders Protests
Oct 25th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Sentenced for reprinting articles criticising stoning and corporal punishment.… Read the rest
International Federation of Journalists Reacts
Oct 25th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Condemns imprisonment of editor of Women’s Rights magazine.… Read the rest
Editor Sentenced to Two Years for ‘Blasphemy’
Oct 25th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Committee to Protect Journalists outraged by conviction of Ali Mohaqiq Nasab.… Read the rest
Prosecutor Vera Ngassa and Judge Beatrice Ntuba
Oct 25th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Women and the law in Cameroon. Must-see film.… Read the rest
Tricky to File a Grievance When Boss is God
Oct 25th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Clergy enjoy none of the employment rights others take for granted.… Read the rest
Catholic Bishops Vote to Remain Reactionary
Oct 25th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Also to continue meddling in politics and elections.… Read the rest
The Battle of Ideas
Oct 25th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Nothing like a good cognitive brawl, is there.… Read the rest
The innocent have nothing to fear
Oct 25th, 2005 | By Julian Baggini"If a government takes offence at this, that government should be offended by the acts of its own citizens, if they are hateful."
Lynne Weil, US State Department communications director, the Daily Telegraph, 13 October 2004
Last year, the US Congress ordered the State Department to “start rating governments throughout the world on their treatment of Jewish citizens.” Alarmed by an apparent rise of anti-Semitism, especially in Europe, Congress decided that the situation needed monitoring.
Several countries, however, objected to this. But State Department communications director Lynne Weil argued that there were no good reasons for any government to object to such reporting. In essence, her argument was that if a country had no particular problem with anti-Semitism, then … Read the rest
DJ ‘Highlights a Community Concern’
Oct 24th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘I firmly believe that something happened. I have no proof and no facts, but I believe there are witnesses…’… Read the rest
Birmingham Riot Over Rumour of Rape
Oct 24th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Rape claim said to have been broadcast on pirate radio station, put out on community-based website.… Read the rest
Two People Killed in Birmingham After Riot
Oct 24th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Over rumours that African-Caribbean teenage girl was gang raped in an Asian beauty store. … Read the rest
Toobin Reviews Breyer on ‘Active Liberty’
Oct 24th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘He trusts Congress a lot more than the left did…and a lot more than the right does today.’… Read the rest
