Friday, September 26, 2003
Required reading is this Salon article [ Welcome to the machine? ]on Automation and the socio-economic consequences of millions of jobs either been taken by robots or outsourced to India or China.
A superb book which analyses this problem as well as the recent stock market bubble, the coming bonds and property crashes as well [...]
Friday, September 26, 2003
Bring Back Stigma
t is now orthodox to regard social stigma as a form of oppression, to be discarded on our collective quest for inner freedom. But the political philosophers and novelists of former times would have been horrified by such a view. In almost all matters that touched upon the core requirements of social order, [...]
Friday, September 26, 2003
The UK government announces a half measure. They now acknowledge that false rape accusations are a problem and can destroy lives, so their response is to allow men to have “their identity concealed up until the time they are charged”.
This is no good. This still means that mean falsely accused and charged will be [...]
Friday, September 26, 2003
“A leading barrister today sparked a storm of controversy by claiming too many young women are crying rape.
Jonathan Davies, who also sits as a Crown Court recorder, spoke out as an increasingly high number of rape trials end with the suspect walking free.” Whoa!
He said: “The offence of rape is being downgraded and acquittals [...]
Friday, September 26, 2003
A site featured before has many new additions.
Thursday, September 25, 2003
“Women don’t have the right stuff for the front line, veteran war reporter Kate Adie tells Margarette Driscoll”
Thursday, September 25, 2003
“Former BBC presenter and champion of liberal causes Sir Ludovic Kennedy has denounced the increasing number of black faces appearing on television programmes as “political correctness [that] has got completely out of hand”.
Sir Ludovic said he was “all in favour of black advancement”, but claimed ethnic minorities were over-represented on TV and this was an [...]
Thursday, September 25, 2003
I say no. Like FUBU, it smacks of racism when out of context, but in fact it is not racist in reality. It started off as an exercise in black pride (and unfortunately group pride necessitates assumptions of superiority over other groups) but what it has become is another thing. It is self-described as awards [...]
Wednesday, September 24, 2003
Here is letter I sent to Spiked today:
I read with dismay today in the Evening Standard that the Metropolitan police is “to target wife beaters they fear could become killers…officers will look for clues in a suspect’s behaviour or situation which could identify him as a potential murderer.
Police could then prosecute even if the [...]