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Hating Peter Tatchell

What began as a small project funded by a Kickstarter campaign, to document the threats and violent hostility against a human rights activist, was eventually picked up by David Furnish and Elton John who have produced an interesting documentary on the life of socialist gay activist Peter Tatchell, a man who is possibly not allContinue reading “Hating Peter Tatchell”

Refugees: Myths and Realities

For seventy years the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees has been very clear about who a refugee is; “A person who owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationalityContinue reading “Refugees: Myths and Realities”

Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day

(and other pirate celebrations) May your wind always blow fair and may your bottom never have barnacles. Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day and as such it is a good day to explain why I am a pirate and how Piratesmas came to be an annual celebration of pirate shenanigans and grogventures. InternationalContinue reading “Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day”

The 4th Estate is Letting Us Down

If asked what was wrong with the modern newspaper industry many of us would blame the political bias of a tiny number of right wing media moguls monopolising and directing editorial output. However, as with most things, it is less an international conspiracy of the mega wealthy and more to do with mundane incompetence, corruptionContinue reading “The 4th Estate is Letting Us Down”