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Reading Time: 3 minutes Media group opts for self-censorship on terrorism after Taliban admits murder of three employees for critical reports on militants
When it was launched four years ago, the Express Tribune set out to become the house newspaper of liberal-minded Pakistanis.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Some of you the other side of the Atlantic may not know that the Gulf Stream which predominantly dictates weather as it pushes systems from North and Central America over to Europe, has been stuck. For months. This has meant the cold air from the North American weather issues has met warmer air from Southern Europe and Africa, swirling and causing muchos rain. A lot of rain. For two months. Britain has been in the throes of severe flooding, attacked from internal rain and mental seas and tides.
Reading Time: 2 minutes This is delicious irony. Brilliant. In a bad way. Caroline Lucas, sole Green MP in the UK, and stalwart of socialist ideal, the environment and women’s rights, is championing the cause of the curtailing of the ubiquitous page 3 topless model in the UK’s most popular newspaper, Murdoch’s The Sun tabloid. The anachronism that is the page 3 topless model in modern society is all too obvious. So obvious, that most people don’t bat an eyelid. But it is pervasive and supports sexist ideals which most probably permeate into the rape culture in Britain that is illustrated by the shocking stats that were produced by Amnesty International last decade:
Reading Time: < 1 minute This is a hilarious video. I thought Bill O’Reilly was a tool before this. Now I think he is a total tool. With a cherry on top.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Katherine Stewart in The Guardian has detailed this scary phenomenon which has been a problem bubbling in the educational undercurrents for some time now. Gives me the chill (as an educator myself). Adults can’t proselytise in schools – but kids can. Hence a new scam by fundamentalists to circumvent church-state separation When he was 15, […]
Reading Time: 7 minutes Why I love “The Newsroom” – left vs right vs truth (part 2 and some philosophy) McAvoy: I only seem liberal because I believe that hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not gay marriage. So I love the Newsroom. A lot. In my last post on the new HBO show (shown in the […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Some time ago when the whole Wikileaks scandal broke, I wrote to the Independent newspaper in the UK and had the letter published (wow, what fame!). Now that Julian Assange, in all his weirdness, is holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, it has all come to the fore again. So I thought I would share […]
Reading Time: 7 minutes Aaron Sorkin’s new show, The Newsroom, has hit the screens both sides of the pond to some polarised reviews. Let me briefly set out the synopsis before telling you why it is so damned important in this day and age – why the message is crucial. Here is a positive review of the show if […]
