I suppose I ought to follow up my previous posts with a comment on the election result. Sadly the Lib Dems didn’t manage to unseat the Labour MP here, so Dulwich residents are going to be suffering from another four years of Irritable Jowell Syndrome. Her majority did go down by about 4,000, mostly in [...]
On Monday, March 31, the Los Angeles Times published a front-page photograph of US soldiers holding a large group of Iraqis prisoner. The paper later discovered that the photograph had been altered by the photographer — he had composited two similar photographs to improve the composition — before sending them to the paper. Although the [...]
Arabic broadcaster al-Jazeera launched its new english-language service on Monday, at english.aljazeera.net. I’ve been trying to get to it all day, in order to read about the war from a different perspective, but without joy. Apparently they’ve been subjected to a spate of DoS attacks (no prizes for guessing which freedom of speech-loving country the [...]
Holy crap, just popped along to check out the news headlines, and discovered that I was shortlisted (Top 30)for the Guardian’s Best British blog competition! I knew Simon had entered me for it, but didn’t really give it any thought. Wish I had now — there were cash prizes for the top 6 — wouldn’t [...]
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