I haven’t written about the war in Iraq for a while. I’ve talked with friends, both on- and offline, but even though this is a fairly formal, easy-going blog, my intention is to fill the entries with at least partly-considered thoughts. And although my position regarding the war is still pretty much the same as [...]
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Random thoughts on the continuing war
April 9th, 2003 · No Comments · Journalism, Politics, TV/Radio
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The euphemised language of war
March 20th, 2003 · No Comments · Journalism, Language, Politics
Lubin Odana writes of the effect of war on language. We’ve already had the eye-popping stupidity of Freedom Fries, but look out for lots of euphemistical and tactical mangling of the English language during the coming days/months/years (delete as fatalistically applicable). On BBC Radio 4′s Today programme this morning, James Naughtie interviewed Democrat Congressman Brad [...]
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Marching
February 17th, 2003 · No Comments · Journalism, Politics
Well, the real political effect will be difficult to identify, possibly even non-existant, but the anti-war march in London seemed to go pretty well. The atmosphere was friendly and inclusive and there was a gratifyingly broad range of class, race and age groups. The Sun made the typically facile point that 58 million British people [...]
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John Le Carré on US/Iraq war
January 15th, 2003 · No Comments · Journalism, Politics
It’s happened again – another excellent article in the Times Online. This time it’s by John Le Carré, talking about the stupidity that is the Bush government and its itching desire to wage war on Iraq.
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Libby Purves on internet child porn
January 14th, 2003 · No Comments · Journalism
Despite being a guitarist and occasional Who fan, I’m keeping fairly quiet about the whole Pete Townshend thing. I don’t know the facts any more than the tabloid press do, and while I hope Townshend is innocent, it’s perfectly possibly that he isn’t. That said, though, I was most impressed by the article Libby Purves [...]
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