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Complicity with Complicity

Oct 25th, 2005 11:25 pm | By

A 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 *

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Like some eager perfectibilian schoolboy, believing it can banish cultural frictions from the earth.… Read the rest



Rosa Parks *

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‘No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.’… Read the rest



Reporters Without Borders Protests *

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Sentenced for reprinting articles criticising stoning and corporal punishment.… Read the rest



International Federation of Journalists Reacts *

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Condemns imprisonment of editor of Women’s Rights magazine.… Read the rest



Editor Sentenced to Two Years for ‘Blasphemy’ *

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Committee to Protect Journalists outraged by conviction of Ali Mohaqiq Nasab.… Read the rest



Prosecutor Vera Ngassa and Judge Beatrice Ntuba *

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Women and the law in Cameroon. Must-see film.… Read the rest



Tricky to File a Grievance When Boss is God *

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Clergy enjoy none of the employment rights others take for granted.… Read the rest



Catholic Bishops Vote to Remain Reactionary *

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Also to continue meddling in politics and elections.… Read the rest



The Battle of Ideas *

Oct 25th, 2005 | Filed by

Nothing like a good cognitive brawl, is there.… Read the rest



DJ ‘Highlights a Community Concern’ *

Oct 24th, 2005 | Filed by

‘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

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

Over rumours that African-Caribbean teenage girl was gang raped in an Asian beauty store. … Read the rest



Toobin Reviews Breyer on ‘Active Liberty’ *

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‘He trusts Congress a lot more than the left did…and a lot more than the right does today.’… Read the rest



Bayley’s Tiresome Attempt to Tease Seriousness *

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Almost wilful flaccidity of the chit-chat, almost freakish resistance to ideas, result in mere drift.… Read the rest



Witches Excited About Religous Hatred Law *

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High priest of witches pleased they ‘will be protected by these new laws from bias or persecution.’… Read the rest



Rowan Atkinson on Religious Hatred Bill *

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‘This is about creating an intimidating and potentially stifling climate.’… Read the rest



Penguins not Christian, not Monogamous *

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Not designed. Director of ‘March of the Penguins’ irritated by Xian loonies.… Read the rest



Down With Communalism

Oct 23rd, 2005 7:31 pm | By

Well, this is where communalism and communal thinking and identity politics and endless repetition of words like ‘community’ get you.

A fourteen year old girl was alleged to have been raped ‘in an Asian hair shop, Birmingham, Perry Barr.’ Therefore –

The shop thought to be part of a chain called ‘Beauty Queens’ was one of many which were closed down in anticipation of the peaceful mass protest. The campaign was designed to raise awareness of the issue and expose the tendency of national media institutions to marginalise or ignore crimes perpetrated against the African British community. At one point many advocated boycotting all Asian businesses to place pressure on the community into breaking the wall of silence it had

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Der Spiegel Interviews Orhan Pamuk *

Oct 23rd, 2005 | Filed by

‘You portray a horrific world of intolerance, ethnic and religious hostilities, violence and murder.’… Read the rest