Mar
21
Pirate: What’s in a Word
March 21, 2013 | Leave a Comment
Usually when celebrities jump onto a cause it’s the A-lister who ends up putting his foot in it so it’s something of a relief to see Harrison Ford sounding platitudes about how getting clean drinking water running in distant “stressed” lands can lead to a lack of Jihadi attacks against the USA — an argument […]
Mar
5
Rediscovered track of the month: Mar ’13
March 5, 2013 | Leave a Comment
Leonard Cohen’s First We Take Manhattan
Mar
5
Favela No More
March 5, 2013 | Leave a Comment
It is with a sense of weary resignation that I learn why the ‘Favela’ level has been removed from the online game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. It happened to Salman Rushdie and countless thousands of others so I suppose it was only a matter of time before religious grievance-mongering impacted on me (note […]