This is tragic and sickening.
The Joacph family home and its neighbouring garage, in the Saltersgill area of Middlesbrough, were covered with messages.
These claimed that the family were terrorists, and also called for the killing of Muslims.
The Joacphs, who are practising Roman Catholics, say they are devastated by the incident.
Originally from India, they have lived in […]
“That’s a lie” said Cherie Blair.
“No, she didn’t say that”, said Downing Street, “she said, ‘I need to get by’”.
Yeah right. Perhaps what she meant to say was one of these:
“Big pizza pie!”
“Well, spit in my eye”
“The Treaty of Versaille!”
“I’ve been bitten by a tsetse fly”
“I got it in Dubai”
“Tony’s on spanish fly”
“The King and […]
Sid would like to apologise for going AWOL on Serious Golmal.
The self-imposed break in blogging over the last few weeks have been due to real life events involving illness (my wife’s, she’s better thanks), ennui (my own), reading, shopping, eating, cooking and watching films on DVD.
Abnormal transmission will resume shortly.
And now for the religious messages:
Rosh […]
I’ve taken this template straight from Mash.
June is Torture Awareness Month. June 26th is the date that the United Nations has marked as the International Day in Support of Survivors and Victims of Torture.
This blog has joined Bloggers Against Torture to spread awareness of American torture policy. The United States has increasingly used torture as […]
Memories of Menezes come flooding back when reading reports of another anti-terrorist “swoop” ending in the shooting of a “terror suspect” by the police.
The story so far.
After a tip-off from M15, 250 police officers in oxygen masks and “protective chemical gear” raid a house in Forest Gate, East London, that they have surveilling for months. […]
Muslims are the most deprived minority here in the UK, by the Guardian.
Muslims are more likely than other religious minorities to be unemployed and live in poor housing in the most deprived parts of England, research has found.
Half of Muslims aged over 25 are not in the formal labour market, according to the Government-backed study.
Muslims […]
Free Alaa
Egyptian blogger Alaa has been arrested.
For UK and US readers contact details for the Egyptian Embassy:
Washington
3521 International Court, NW, Washington DC 20008
Telephone: (202) 895 5400
Fax: (202) 244-4319
E-mail: embassy@egyptembdc.org
URL: http://www.egyptembassy.us
London
Egypt Embassy
26 South Street
London W1Y 6DD
Telephone: 020 7499 3304/2401
AS IF! (Authors Support Intellectual Freedom) is an American association of authors who are monitoring authors and books that being removed from school curricula in all fifty states. So, for example, we read about the the NAACP in Pasadena’s move to remove To Kill a Mockingbird from the school curriculum.
What kind of forces are operating in the US […]
Last week more4 showed History of Oil by “Britian’s brightest comic” Robert Newman.
Here is a chance to see it again.
Get it while its still cached.
[via IndyBay]
Euston Mainifesto to music.