November 6, 2008 at 7:38 am · Filed under Politics, sport
Well, this is annoying. Yet again I’m compelled to comment on Spanish racism. Given that this particular type of confusing and misguided display seems to be coming so frequently from Spain of late, does this mean my commentary is also in danger of becoming racist (against the Spanish)? I do wish they’d stop.
Here we see Spanish Grand Prix fans showing their dissaproval of Lewis Hamilton, current Formula 1 World Champion. Richard Herring analyses their non-logic here.
More recently, reports have emerged of a Spanish website attacking Hamilton in an openly racist way. Apparently more than 16,000 people left racist messages on the site. I haven’t actually seen the site, as the reports I’ve seen have, understandably, declined to reveal the site’s URL.
Thanks to Graham Linehan for naming them arseholes of the decade.
September 26, 2008 at 8:37 am · Filed under Politics
Wow, look at Cory Doctorow rant! Not that I disagree entirely, especially as I’m also a UK immigrant. He overstates the point a bit, and gets hysterical a lot, but his article does make me wonder what the hell is insidiously creeping up on us, viz. erosion of civil liberties, etc. It’s something that regularly makes the news, but only when you pull it all together and look at just how much we’re expected to swallow, bit by underhanded bit, do you get the full shocking picture. Is it time to flee the leftie camp and become a hard-core anarchist?
The Labour Party is unmaking Britain, turning it into the surveillance society that Britain’s foremost prophet of doom, George Orwell, warned against.
George Bush has just signed a bill declaring the ANC is no longer a terrorist organisation. So now Mandela can apply for a via to visit the US. Hoorah! Condoleezza Rice has called the the affair ‘embarrassing’.
A fairly predictable one, this. In a recent article in the Times, voters were told on arriving at a polling station in Chengutu that ‘if there is one MDC vote they will find that person and cut off his or her head.’
But wait, there’s more. In a recent statement on the South African government website, it’s noted that President Thabo Mbeki has been the target of some kind of media smear campaign, the poor dear. Apparently:
This year, as in the previous year, it appears as though there exists a disinformation campaign whereby all manner of fabrications are fed to the media.
What fabrications? Quoted in the same statement, the assertion that Mbeki and his goverment have ‘been secretly working to remove [President Robert Mugabe] from power’ through ‘lobbying for sustained international pressure to bear on the Mugabe regime’. Tut tut, what a horrible thing to say about someone.
