Showing posts with label current affairs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label current affairs. Show all posts

Friday, October 12, 2012

Lance Armstrong: Another Conspiracy of Silence

It turns out that the seven-times Tour de France champ Lance Armstrong cheated . Apparently, he was doped up to the eyeballs, bullied other...

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Hillsborough: Corruption and Shame

On that day, 41 Liverpool fans might have survived had those in charge acted more swiftly. It's taken 23 years to expose the police coc...

Friday, July 20, 2012

Olympics: Looking Backward To See Forward

What with all those shiny bodies flinging themselves around giant stadiums filled with cheering crowds – the marching, the uniforms, the sur...

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Vesta and the Olympic Flame

As you probably know, Oxford is a World Heritage Site. There's Radcliffe Camera, the Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street, St Giles... all b...

Monday, April 2, 2012

Posts About Burma

To celebrate the sweeping victory of Aung San Suu Kyi and her party in yesterday's election , I'm posting links to all the pieces I...

Saturday, March 31, 2012

A Weird Week in Politics

PM David Cameron was last spotted eating a Cornish pasty two years ago. Ooo – the spin doctors have been getting themselves in a twist this ...

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Rebekah Brooks: Embodying Lilith

Rebekah Brooks: she made it up the greasy pole Oh, the irony. The woman who made a living dragging people's good names through the mire ...