Saturday, May 28, 2005

Got a spare hour?

An interesting essay on Iraq

"Is humiliation the same as torture? It is not -- that's why the words are spelled differently. To get to the heart of the difference, assume you were a prisoner at Abu Graib, and your interrogator started to remove your fingers one by one with bolt cutters. How long would it take you to beg to be posed with women’s panties on your head? Yeah, I thought so."

Friday, May 27, 2005

Monday, May 16, 2005

Buying votes not good enough

Under such a regime teachers were simply asked to prepare young people to be workers.”


Shouldn’t that read


“Under such a regime teachers were simply asked to prepare young people to be Labour voters”