Wrestling with Morality

Who would you rescue first from a burning building, the baby or the guinea pig?
Surely that’s obvious? I’d rescue whichever I could get to! Whichever was in more danger. Whichever I could rescue without endangering my own life. It’s not about choosing which has more ‘right’ to live than the other, it’s about saving another [...]

TV Sux — F**K the Po-Lice

Look what Lenin has to say!
The most bizarre TV show I’ve recently come across is something I watched last night. Taking the gameshow formula, this programme tricks ‘petty criminals’ into handing themselves over to the cops. I was only half watching but the general idea was to get these ‘wanted’ criminals to attend a football [...]

Sheffield University

I got my acceptance letter to university yesterday! I’m going to be studying an MA in Librarianship. If I can get the funding I’ll go full time — I’ll get it out of the way. If I don’t I either have to work my ass off or spread the course over two years. I’ll cross [...]

Abu Ghraib 2

What the hell is wrong with these people!! Is this what Bush/Blair envisioned when fighting a ‘war on terror?’ Is this how they intended to free the Iraqi people of Saddam Hussein’s regime? When disgusting images such as these get released to the media it begs the question — why on Earth has there been [...]

When I grow up I want to be…

…a ballet dancer!
Hamas thinks when Palestinian chilidren grow up they should want to be terrorists!!!
The children’s magazine named Fatah — Arabic for the Muslim who conquers the Kufir States — in its last two issues carried an illustrated story about the heroism of a very young but courageous Palestinian child, who is determined to be [...]