From the BBC this evening:
September 11th, the day that three hijacked aircraft crashed into buildings…
Er…wouldn’t were deliberately flown into be a little better?
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The airplanes that crashed
Fatwas from the UK Islamic Sharia Council
Dr Rowan Williams’s contribution to the ongioing debate about UK Law and Islam included the gem:
what most people think they know of sharia is that it is repressive towards women
How might a real Islamic Sharia Council enlighten us?
My name is Sister xxxx and I am applying for university this year, i wish to apply to [...]
Rameau: Les Indes galantes - Les Sauvages
William Christie’s splendid production, starring Nicolas Rivenq and Patricia Petibon
Healthcare : don’t patronise Obama supporters
Here’s a news reporter questioning an Obama fan on healthcare and change:
Photographer of the Year
Helen’s photo (below) has been highly commended in Digital Camera Magazine’s Photographer of the Year contest (architecture section)
Coventry Cathedral Baptistry Window, by Helen
Not bad for an accidental competition entry. March edition supplement out on Tuesday, 12th February.
Angel of the South
This from the excellent blog, Ghost of a flea:
I could weep. It is post-punk in a minivan, yearning for a lost, and largely fabricated, youthful art-school rebellion, this sort of personality not only destroyed art in the 1920s, destroyed music in the 1970s and destroyed the social sciences in the 1980s, it now insists on [...]
The Candlemaker’s Petition
Cheap Chinese candles seem likely to spark another fierce battle between retailers and producers in the European Union and again expose divisions in the bloc over global trade.Peter Mandelson, the trade commissioner, is expected to recommend within days the pursuing of a complaint from candlemakers that a surge in imports is unfairly damaging their businesses.An [...]
Sullivan on Hillary
The second bout of public tears just before a crucial primary vote - after no evidence that Senator Hillary Clinton has a history of tearing up in front of the cameras - provokes the unavoidable question: should feminists actively vote against Clinton to defend the cause of female equality?
Andrew Sullivan, The Tears Of The [...]
Losing my vote
the government’s decision to abandon the ‘aggressive rhetoric’ of the so-called war on terror, the guide tells civil servants not to use terms such as Islamist extremism or jihadi-fundamentalist but instead to refer to violent extremism and criminal murderers or thugs to avoid any implication that there is an explicit link between Islam and terrorism.
Heaven [...]