Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading and the 25-Hour News.
Have the Terrorists already won? Frank Fisher.
French v. English coverage of the Hebdo massacre in Quebec.
David Attenborough – Population control – so long as I can have as many children as I want…..
Redundant pop singer looking to revitalise career by setting up his very own historic sex abuse inquiry. It’s the latest craze.
Hannah Weller‘s campaign to outlaw photographs of children.
Why Romanian journalists are opening bakeries.
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January 10, 2015 at 10:25 am -
“This is not a ban, and it isn’t censorship,” lied the lying twat David Studer, CBC’s director of Journalistic Standards and Practices.
“Similarly, we wouldn’t publish cartoons likely to dismay or outrage mainstream followers of other religions.” Ho, ho, ho: very like a whale.
P.S. Why is it only “mainstream” people he worries about?
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January 10, 2015 at 1:01 pm -
January 10, 2015 at 5:14 pm -
Charlie Hebdo
The weekly-issued French magazine proclaims itself as “satire”. In fact, it’s far from satirical: it’s more akin to crass and puerile. But its schoolboy humour does not, in any way, justify the deaths of its contributors. Indeed, there are many equally crass and puerile folk out there, making their views known on Twitter, Facebook, et al. None of them deserve a death threat, let alone death.
We would do well to remind ourselves of what Voltaire said: “I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.” And, in this day and age, since hardly anyone is defending that right (and we now know that our every communication is being stored in perpetuity), we’re all now becoming self-censoring. Is that really how we wish to conduct our lives?
The UK government’s internet filters (“Think of the Children”) are just one part of that lunacy. The twirps who enacted that legislation obviously had no idea how the Internet works. Any half-way savvy teenager can find a work-around, so it won’t affect them. And, as this state censorship creeps on apace, there will come a time when more of us oldsters will fall foul of similarly daft edicts: our preferred blogs will be proscribed. And then we’ll begin to avail ourselves of VPNs and proxies — and, not before time, catch up with the savvy teenagers.
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January 11, 2015 at 10:21 pm -
“I do not agree with your death, but I won’t defend your right to speak”
Obama, Cameron, Merkel, Welby…
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