Author Archives: ditdotdat

Remember when you were a teenager? Most of your peers knew nothing about music or politics or anything, the majority of them were fuck-wits whom you despised. So when you’re listening to some young person going on about something or … Continue reading →

A funny thing happened at the BBC yesterday. Someone from the Cairo office rang up the Newsnight programme asking them whether the rumours they had heard that Newsnight was going to be showing the controversial Danish cartoons that night were … Continue reading →

The underground train drivers in London are having a strike on New Year’s Eve. It has been a great London tradition for tube travel to be free on 31 December and it really adds to the pleasure of living in … Continue reading →

Robert Holleyman of the Business Software Alliance says “Few people would find it acceptable for a quarter of consumers to steal, rather than buy, their new car from a dealer’s forecourt.” What a tosser. Few people would find it acceptable … Continue reading →

Well, it’s not exactly mine, but I did produce and mix it. It’s a documentary by World Service journalist Anu Anand (hey, I took that photo!) about how Afghanistan’s conservative society is coping with western influences like music TV. It … Continue reading →

There’s nothing that I can add to Simon Schama’s superb, blistering attack on Bush. I can even forgive him his use of 9/11 to mean September the 11th. http://www.guardian.co.uk/katrina/story/0,16441,1567841,00.html

The head of the British secret police, Eliza Manningham-Buller, recently made a speech in which she claimed that “Civil liberties may have to be ‘eroded’ to protect Britons from terrorism”. It’s not surprising that she thinks this; as a spook … Continue reading →

…but it’s a shame that it had to be this man. The former Malaysian Prime Minster Mahathir Mohamad has offended the British High Commissioner by comparing US and UK pilots in Iraq to terrorists. “The British and American bomber pilots … Continue reading →

Compare and contrast Blair’s statements with those of our Mayor, Ken Livingstone. Blair said: “It is through terrorism that the people that have committed this terrible act express their values, and it is right at this moment that we demonstrate … Continue reading →

Let’s send a clear message to the terrorists that they can’t change our way of life by planting bombs. We should refuse to sacrifice our freedoms; we should say no to Identity Cards. BBC NEWS | Politics | Blair vows … Continue reading →