The top google hit for 'turkey "amnesty international"' is their 2002 report on the country – "Thousands of prisoners were held in conditions of prolonged isolation which could amount to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment [..] The pressure on human … Continue reading
.. the 'SM' film shot in an abandoned warehouse before she was famous, I can say "Don't bother!" The quality is awful – if the director hadn't kept saying 'Cameron' all the time, you'd never know it was her. Mind … Continue reading
This morning, at about 11am, someone arrived from BT to install a new ADSL line as part of the idea of sticking all our files on a server on the other side of London. At 11:15, our BT ADSL falls … Continue reading
London Blackfriars doesn't have any ticket barriers at the platform entrances/exits. And, unlike say London Waterloo, the exits are rarely staffed. Say on one day in two weeks. There are two exits, a wide one serving platforms 1-4, and a … Continue reading
Where's that effigy of Beckham from 1998?
… apart from chop down a French player just outside the penalty box?
Don't listen to Thatcher's comments on Reagan if you want to keep your lunch inside you… Update: It's here, but don't say I didn't warn you… … Continue reading
Compared to a few years ago, I don't watch many news programmes. BBC R4's Today programme is my daily fix. But I saw a London news programme earlier this week that included a segment on a cyclist killed on a … Continue reading
The other thing I didn't post about was pondering over whether or not to watch the Nick Berg execution video. On the one hand, yuck. (Understatement!) On the other, to misquote Jagger and Richards, "Who killed Nick Berg? / When … Continue reading
US soldiers in Iraq must also be asking themselves 'who' and 'are they worth it' as well. Brits will remember the fuss about UK soldiers not having the best equipment when the war in Iraq started. Well, US forces in … Continue reading