Nike asks Chinese government to track down blogger
Friday, August 22nd, 2008 Posted in Current Affairs | No Comments »From the hypocrisy and you-couldn't-make-it-up department: Nike have enlisted the help of the Chinese government to track down a blogger who made anti-Nike comments. So freedom of speech? Human rights? Naaa, who needs it when companies use Communist-era government controls to ...
Is making a slitty-eyed gesture racist?
Friday, August 15th, 2008 Posted in Being British-Chinese, Current Affairs | No Comments »To recap, the Spanish basketball team pose for a pre-Olympic-Games advert making slit-eyed gestures in one of Spain's major newspapers. Freelance Madrid-based journalist Sid Lowe points this out in the Guardian, spreading the story everywhere else with predictable outrage in ...
Boycotting Beijing - why ?!
Sunday, July 27th, 2008 Posted in Being British-Chinese, Current Affairs | No Comments »During the media hullabaloo about Chinese bodyguards over-zealously protecting the Olympic flame in London against Tibet protestors, I managed to keep my mouth shut. I agree the Chinese government is treating Tibet in a disgusting way indeed - but you ...
Bloody stupid fuel protestors
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 Posted in Current Affairs, THE LIST | No Comments »Kill for Fuel Originally uploaded by Paul Hudson Yet again, Britain's lorry drivers are reacting to the rise in fuel-prices by launching a demonstration across London and disrupting traffic everywhere. While I applaud ...
Why Glastonbury hasn’t sold out this year…
Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in Current Affairs, Music, Pop Culture | No Comments »So it's Glastonbury weekend - a weekend where I traditionally muse on the fact that I'm starting to get too old to go to such a weekend as a first-timer, and that I really need to get off my backside, ...
If this is how America treats its friends…
Saturday, June 14th, 2008 Posted in Current Affairs | No Comments »So the UK stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the US against pretty much everyone else in launching a doomed war against Iraq, which sends Tony Blair out of office, potentially Gordon Brown with him and ushering in the Tories at the next ...
Am I going to become a Tory?
Friday, June 13th, 2008 Posted in Current Affairs | 3 Comments »David Davies' recent decision to resign as an MP to force a by-election and debate on the erosion of UK civil liberties (you can now be arrested for 42 days without charge, there are CCTV cameras for every 14 people, ...
