2009 (94)
  • Dec 24 2009
  • 11:43am
2009: horribilis or mirabilis?
Everyone loves a list. Shortlist and Stylist mazagine’s popularity are tes...
  • Dec 17 2009
  • 1:34pm
Get me out of here, Im a Saharan activist
Listening on the radio this morning to a Scottish man stranded in Lanzarote airp...
  • Dec 14 2009
  • 1:22pm
Was Tony Blair making an ass of himself in Azerbaijan?
As regular readers of this blog may know, I always weigh my words carefully. But...
  • Dec 11 2009
  • 2:47pm
Portishead: I just wanna be a music critic
When I first heard a ghost-voiced Beth Gibbons from Portishead croaking “G...
  • Dec 10 2009
  • 11:34am
Have you heard the one about Iran?
One of the stories the Anglo-Iranian comic Shappi Khorsandi tells is how Iran on...
  • Dec 8 2009
  • 2:57pm
No more cocktails, just give it to me straight: death in Ohio
Such is the perverted ingenuity of the human race, that yes, we’re great a...
  • Dec 2 2009
  • 2:30pm
Policing rape
Given the prevalence of the crime of rape and the disastrously low conviction ra...
  • Nov 27 2009
  • 4:39pm
Jan Moir on Pol Pot tactics to end violence against women
“Surely if you insist on lessons to teach small children it is wrong for m...
  • Nov 25 2009
  • 4:29pm
Please sir, what is domestic violence?
As I was hinting yesterday, the government has indeed announced new measures to ...

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