Thursday, August 21, 2008
Theordore Dalrymple dispatches another desperately bleak report from the UK, this time of the theme of how dreadful it is to be a child in Britain:
…in November 2007 [Fiona MacKeown] went on a six-month vacation to Goa, India, with her boyfriend and eight of her nine children by five different fathers, none of whom ever [...]
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“The prosecution has strong incentives to try to tell the story of the war, rather than focus narrowly on successful conviction. This is the international tribunal’s signature case — especially after the termination of the Milosevic prosecution — and it will be heavily institutionally invested in the outcome and the legacy it creates, the more [...]
Last summer I was enjoying a drink with a friend in his apartment overlooking the Thames and Canary Wharf. His adorable little three year old daughter was entertaining us with songs and dancing and other antics. At one point she sat on his knee and asked what he was drinking. After he told he it [...]
Extraordinary photos from the Chinese preparations for the Olympics…
In this photo released by the official Xinhua news agency, members of China’s armed police demonstrate a rapid deployment during an anti-terrorist drill held in Jinan, east China, on Wednesday July 2, 2008, roughly one month ahead of the Beijing Olympic Games. (AP Photo/Xinhua/Fan Changguo)
In this photo [...]
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“Lippmann…argued in his best-selling book called Public Opinion that democracy was fundamentally flawed. People, he said, mostly know the world only indirectly, through “pictures they make up in their heads.” And they receive these mental pictures largely through the media. The problem, Lippmann argued, is that the pictures people have in their heads are hopelessly [...]
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From “Serbia jails three for killing Muslims, prosecutor to appeal” via Reuters:
A Serbian court sentenced former paramilitaries convicted of the 1992 killings of Muslim civilians in eastern Bosnia to between three to 15 years in jail on Thursday, sentences the prosecutor said were too light.
Dragan Slavkovic, Ivan Korac and Sinisa Filipovic, all members of paramilitary [...]
The headline sounds like one of those pitchs movie makers have to give to studio executives where they summarise their proposed film in one line.
This one sounds like an episode from one of those cheesy sci-fi shows in the 70s featuring with an unbelievable plot that even the keenest fans deride.
The real horror here is [...]
Friday, February 22, 2008
The happy innocent days when Serbs thought that with Slobo gone, they would be treated fairly.
I have received a number of emails from friends curious to know the inside track on the Kosovo situation from their man on the ground in Serbia.
The problem is that when one is very close to the situation, and are [...]
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In response to this post on the Mind The Gap blog, I wrote this:
You need to bring yourself up to date with the facts.
The false accusation rate is at least 26% in the US, but more likely 40%. This is an absolute certainty based on DNA evidence. It may be much much higher. In [...]
I was reminded today of a truly horrible report issued in 2001 by Human Rights Watch. It deals with the subject of rape in US prisons. It is deeply shocking.
From Hard Time:
There are probably more men than women raped in the United States every year—most of them in prison. Best estimates put the annual [...]