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The Daily Telegraph ‘defends’ gay rights in Ecuador 21 Jun 2012 | 10:04 pm
The Daily Telegraph has discovered gay rights. Not in Britain, where it has argued against the legalization of gay marriage, but in Ecuador: As well as a poor record on free speech, Ecuador is accuse...
Reuters misquotes Cameron on Putin and Syria 21 Jun 2012 | 03:24 am
What David Cameron said (quote begins at 02:37): Now of course there remain differences over sequencing the exact shape of how the transition takes place, but it is welcome that President Putin has b...
Syria - Dead bodies and laughter 7 Jun 2012 | 07:56 pm
As reports emerged of a possible massacre of 80 men, women and children in a village near Hama, this 31-second video of dead bodies was posted on Youtube. At the end of the video the men filming the b...
Dan Rather is a tree 2 Jun 2012 | 02:49 am
All available evidence indicates that the above statement is completely and utterly false. That puts it on a par with Dan Rather’s description of Hugo Chavez as a “dictator.” Trees don’t file news re...
Plus ça change, plus ce n’est pas la même chose 31 May 2012 | 01:59 am
The train from Cambridge slowly pulled into the newly rebuilt and refurbished King’s Cross station. “It’s not the same now it’s changed, is it?” said an elderly passenger.
Gaddafi ‘regrets he stopped developing nuclear weapons’ 1 Apr 2011 | 08:56 am
When the United States and Britain invaded Iraq in 2003, a number of people pointed out what a terrible message this sent to the world about nuclear weapons. Iraq had dismantled its WMD programmes and...
What if Libya’s rebels keep fighting? 19 Mar 2011 | 11:01 am
Thursday’s Security Council resolution on Libya is both sweeping and limited. Sweeping: It authorizes all necessary means to enforce a no-fly zone and to protect civilians. Limited: It does not auth...
Libya - It’s got nothing to do with humanitarianism 9 Mar 2011 | 05:41 am
Every once in a while the clouds of propaganda part and, for a brief moment, clarity shines through. One of these moments (political activist and comedian Robert Newman is rather fond of this one) cam...
Glenn Beck thinks (about China) outside the reality box 20 Jan 2011 | 04:18 am
“Whether it’s true or not … no longer matters” - Glen Beck Glenn hasn’t been studying his diagram: If you want to criticize anyone for woolly thinking about anything, Glenn Beck is very, very low-ha...
Why Le Duc Tho refused his Nobel Peace Prize 12 Dec 2010 | 09:41 am
On Friday, the BBC’s website published the very surpising claim that in 1973 Vietnam’s Le Duc Tho rejected his Nobel Peace Prize “without explanation”. It’s surprising because Le Duc Tho wrote to the...
