Highly Contagious Hypochondria
(Zeitgeist)
Believe me. Dodgy bark and resin mined from the clutches of the Orient fell well short of anything I had ever deemed to be medicine.
A dreadful human rights record, infamously [...]
- Posted on 31st Aug 2010
by Stuart Hayward - 5 comments
Population Spin
(Zeitgeist)
It’s getting harder and harder to find a news publication to believe in.
It was with some surprise that readers were witness to the highly regarded newspaper ‘Economist’ trumpeting the accession [...]
- Posted on 24th Aug 2010
by Hannes Wessels - 1 comments
A tale of Enobarban proportions
(Law)
“ALL RISE” droned the Registrar……my brief interlude into the life of a riot policeman had been cut short by a less interesting sort of judge.
He hates his job. He’s been [...]
- Posted on 3rd Aug 2010
by Stuart Hayward - 2 comments
Hypocrisy Rules the World
(Zeitgeist)
Of all the insidious traits now commonplace in the modern world nothing is more pernicious and widespread than hypocrisy. It normally starts with public figures. Scurrilous entertainment superstars and politicians [...]
Read More- Posted on 19th Jul 2010
by Jerome Mitchell - 7 comments
Mandela Day – Why You Shouldn’t Join In
(Zeitgeist)
Katarzyna Pawelczyk writes from Johannesburg…
Once a year millions of people gather to celebrate one man; there is goodwill amongst them and generosity abounds. No, this is not Christmas, or Easter [...]
- Posted on 13th Jul 2010
by Guest Contribution - 4 comments
Dear Mr. Black – My Correspondence With An Effing Legend
(Zeitgeist)
Its not often one gets touched by greatness so when it does happen you really need to make a pig of yourself. Last weak I wrote an email to former [...]
Read More- Posted on 2nd Jul 2010
by Jerome Mitchell - 4 comments
World Cup Diary
(Culture)
Well, it all started on a Friday morning. Sky News’ best asset, a man named Jeremy Thompson who is every bit a gentleman as he is impartial, interviewed a chap [...]
Read More- Posted on 1st Jul 2010
by Simon Reader - 0 comments
The brilliance of Zapiro… and we thought the showerhead caused a fuss
(Zeitgeist)
A certain Kurt Westergaard ring a bell?
Allow me to dust the cobwebs-
He is one of 12 Danish cartoonists at the heart of a 2008 global Islamic furor e regarding cartoons [...]
- Posted on 22nd May 2010
by Stuart Hayward - 2 comments
Blighted, Buggered, Bastardized…Blighty
(Zeitgeist)
When Nick Clegg ascended to the leadership of the Liberal Democrats – a party once described by a future Prime Minister (who we’ll get to later) as ‘a void within [...]
Read More- Posted on 13th May 2010
by Simon Reader - 0 comments