While listening to Slate’s Political Gabfest podcast as I ate my breakfast this morning I heard about an interesting piece featuring in the New Yorker this week (and, much as I love reading the New Yorker because I think it makes me look intellectual, it was interesting for another reason entirely) and immediately went to [...]

Filed under: crime, culture, iraq, society, uspolitics on February 18th, 2007 | 2 Comments »

One can almost hear the sighs of apathy when people read the title “IRAQ.” The subject has been covered to death, exhausted by endless media footage of another road side bomb, another market square atrocity. Yet whilst in the U.S the government is coming under growing calls for accountability over the debacle, here in [...]

Filed under: iraq on February 2nd, 2007 | 1 Comment »