Exploding the myth of the feckless, lazy Greeks
Exploding the myth of the feckless, lazy Greeks!!! http://t.co/qEd1R5fp Current affairs, world politics, the arts and more from Britain's award-winning magazine Link - Trackbacks
View ArticleSex, children and Mail Online
The Mail rails against child sexualisation while drooling over 14yo Kylie Jenner. What's wrong here? asks @mjrobbins http://t.co/XtoeZOJX Current affairs, world politics, the arts and more from...
View ArticleHow many more disabled people will die frightened that their benefits will be...
How many more disabled people will die frightened that their benefits will be taken away? http://t.co/pCjCpVOB RIP Karen Sherlock #esa #wca Current affairs, world politics, the arts and more from...
View ArticleDear The Internet, This Is Why You Can't Have Anything Nice
New blog on Anita Sarkeesian and perhaps the worst sexist hate campaign I've seen for a while: http://t.co/H8AXAlJq Current affairs, world politics, the arts and more from Britain's award-winning...
View ArticleWhy Gove gets a free ride from the press
Why Gove gets a free ride from the press I New Statesman - http://t.co/WoMQbuxg Current affairs, world politics, the arts and more from Britain's award-winning magazine Link - Trackbacks
View ArticleTax avoidance isn't a left or right issue, it's a cancer eating our democracy
Well, this by @WillardFoxton is simply the best thing I've read on tax avoidance: http://t.co/ZCQjOR37 Current affairs, world politics, the arts and more from Britain's award-winning magazine Link -...
View ArticleThe truth about mind control
A brilliant, if slightly scary, insight into how mind control works from @RichardWiseman. http://t.co/veBHdPH8 Current affairs, world politics, the arts and more from Britain's award-winning magazine...
View ArticleThis is what online harassment looks like
This is what online harassment looks like: a new game invites you to "beat up Anita Sarkeesian" http://t.co/K2UvabQ1 http://t.co/bA0C8QaY Obscene images, hate sites and a game where people are invited...
View ArticleWhen life gave O2 network failure, it made networkfailureade on Twitter
When life gave @O2 network failure, it made networkfailureade: http://t.co/beXK0p70 Current affairs, world politics, the arts and more from Britain's award-winning magazine Link - Trackbacks
View ArticleWhat “freedom of the press” should mean
What does “freedom of the press” mean, by @davidallengreen http://t.co/8KBi1kIz The new pamphleteers. Link - Trackbacks
View ArticleThe BBC3 documentary that broke all the rules on reporting suicide
This BBC3 documentary broke all the rules on reporting suicide, says @scatatkins http://t.co/vwoRUSGz Stacey Dooley's "Japan, Fall of the Rising Sun" documentary was ill-judged and offensive in the way...
View ArticleWhat some people call idleness is often the best investment
http://t.co/kZW8gljm < Interesting - intense short periods of work deemed to be most productive Excessive hard work is counterproductive. Link - Trackbacks
View Article23 Ways to Please Your Man, the Cosmo Way
23 Ways to Please Your Man, the Cosmo Way, by @VagendaMagazine http://t.co/BlPdQ4Lz (warning: contains naked Ian McShane with a dachshund) How to stay thin, find a man and cure erectile dysfunction...
View ArticleLegal myths about the Assange extradition
Legal myths about the #Assange extradition - my new post at @NewStatesman: http://t.co/AIVZ3mji A brief critical and source-based guide to some common misconceptions. Link - Trackbacks
View ArticleThe trouble with TED talks
Blogging: The trouble with TED | by me @NewStatesman http://t.co/9z5eD2Be TED’s slogan shouldn’t be ‘Ideas worth spreading’, it should be: ‘Ego worth paying for’. Link - Trackbacks
View ArticleYour brain on pseudoscience: the rise of popular neurobollocks
Now online: my New Statesman essay on neuroscientism. http://t.co/DKaVO20H The “neuroscience” shelves in bookshops are groaning. But are the works of authors such as Malcolm Gladwell and Jonah Lehrer...
View ArticleQuote of the Day
Quote of the Day: Boris Johnson on Nick Clegg http://t.co/BgLfk1AT Boris Johnson on Nick Clegg. Link - Trackbacks
View ArticleHow G4S helps Israel break the Geneva convention
How G4S helps Israel break the Geneva convention: Lisa Nandy calls for the government to take action over G4S' p... http://t.co/0wPredus Lisa Nandy calls for the government to take action over G4S'...
View ArticleThe sinister campaign against Page 3
"It's the mockery that's offensive, not the nudity": @mjrobbins on why he thinks the @nomorePage3 campaign is wrong http://t.co/a6t3huXz At worst, campaigners are engaging in exactly the same sort of...
View Article"Bitch got a dancing horse": Why Snoop Dogg isn't voting for Mitt...
“Bitch got a dancing horse” Why Snoop Dogg isn't voting for Mitt Romney: http://t.co/QljYEee3 The ten reasons why he's not voting for Mitt Romney, and the ten reasons why he is voting for Barack Obama....
View ArticleLena Dunham, Caitlin Moran and the problem of unexamined privilege
Here's the piece! For @newstatesman, Caitlin Moran, Lena Dunham, and the problem of unexamined privilege - http://t.co/Tl9wztT4 There are many ways “to be a woman”, and we should try to show more of...
View ArticleLife after a Twitterstorm
If you've ever been part of a Twitterstorm, read this: @aljwhite catches up with a victim, years later http://t.co/2IKlHoF2 Life after a Twitterstorm: catching up with an online-outrage victim. Link -...
View ArticleThe problem with Naomi Wolf's vagina
"We turn our frustrations into mere lifestyle issues": @pennyred on the problem with Naomi Wolf's Vagina http://t.co/Xq5RUOPH Laurie Penny on Naomi Wolf's Vagina. Link - Trackbacks
View ArticleNina was brutalised by her rapists, and then French justice assaulted her again
For 6 months, a gang gave Nina appointments to turn up and be raped. Yesterday, her attackers got just 1 year in jail: http://t.co/8rC8lrIC For six months, a pack of boys told Nina to turn up at...
View ArticleWe need to talk about genitals
We need to talk about genitals http://t.co/IgWsA30a | New Statesman Current affairs, world politics, the arts and more from Britain's award-winning magazine Link - Trackbacks
View ArticleLegal myths about the Assange extradition
MT @samkinsley: A cogent explanation & rebuttal of some claims made re. Assange case w. relevant materials http://t.co/BrTqK1ll A brief critical and source-based guide to some common...
View ArticleThe legal mythology of the extradition of Julian Assange
Me at @NewStatesman - The legal mythology of the extradition of Julian Assange: http://t.co/383pzXEI Who is behind the widespread misinformation about Julian Assange's extradition fight? Link - Trackbacks
View ArticleGQ's men of the year covers - spot the odd one out
GQ's men of the year covers - spot the odd-one-out: "One of these things is not like the others."GQ has done spe... http://t.co/odVZ0NX8 Not on, GQ. Not on. Link - Trackbacks
View ArticleThe left cannot remain silent over "honour killings"
The left cannot remain silent over "honour killings", says @sunny_hundal http://t.co/uyb2fxEl We have become complicit in this epidemic of abuse and violence by not doing more to challenge it. Link -...
View ArticleThe death of Daniel Morgan
The death of #DanielMorgan - my introductory post at @NewStatesman: http://t.co/HL0AlIyI #Leveson Current affairs, world politics, the arts and more from Britain's award-winning magazine Link - Trackbacks
View ArticleFighting snark with snark: Bodyform viral video destroys commenter
Bodyform gets snark from commenter, responds with more awesome snark (love the glass of blue water) http://t.co/HthUvSol When Bodyform, the feminine hygene company, was left a snarky comment on its...
View ArticleExclusive: George Galloway's conversion to Islam
NS Exclusive: George Galloway's conversion to Islam http://t.co/AvRmTF5U Current affairs, world politics, the arts and more from Britain's award-winning magazine Link - Trackbacks
View ArticleBritain's last anti-Jewish riots
http://t.co/FiCVqF19 1947, Britain's last anti-Jewish riots, why have they been forgotten? New Statesman Current affairs, world politics, the arts and more from Britain's award-winning magazine Link -...
View ArticleWhy we're still being taken for a ride by our train companies
Why we're still being taken for a ride by our train companies, by @aljwhite http://t.co/ixQXDlrb There are too many "vested interests" to keep happy. Link - Trackbacks
View ArticleExclusive: Osborne's supporters turn on him
Exclusive: leading economists who backed Osborne abandon him http://t.co/CQT6Gaj9 Leading economists who formerly backed Osborne urge him to change course. Link - Trackbacks
View ArticleHow the media shouldn't cover a mass murder
How NOT to cover a mass murder: comparing guidelines from @charltonbrooker's Newswipe with today's front pages http://t.co/WcsEGCEO Current affairs, world politics, the arts and more from Britain's...
View ArticleThe legal mythology of the extradition of Julian Assange
David Allen Green on Assange - latest: http://t.co/DjbMJ2pA Who is behind the widespread misinformation about Julian Assange's extradition fight? Link - Trackbacks
View ArticleWhy the European Union does not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize
Why the European Union does not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize: http://t.co/2COFq33L The EU can't be responsible for "60 years of peace" when it has only existed for two decades. Link - Trackbacks
View ArticleAlan Rusbridger: the quiet evangelist
Now online in full: Peter Wilby's profile of @arusbridger & analysis of the Guardian's future: http://t.co/v4bIYbiT #longreads Current affairs, world politics, the arts and more from Britain's...
View ArticleCan men be feminists?
Can men be feminists? Yes, but not if they want to run the show, says @weekwoman http://t.co/SRoSJhVm Men have to be part of feminism, but that doesn't mean they have to run the show. Link - Trackbacks
View ArticleSix of the Best: Independent Publishers Outside London
Six of the best: Independent publishers outside London http://t.co/p8Q8mSfW Six of the best independent publishers based outside London. Link - Trackbacks
View ArticleGoldman Sachs have £20m of our money, but we're on the road to getting it back
Goldman Sachs have £20m of our money, but @ukuncutlegal are getting it back: http://t.co/rFP0CAEV Current affairs, world politics, the arts and more from Britain's award-winning magazine Link - Trackbacks
View ArticleThe art of smart power
"The US needs to fundamentally change the way we do business" - Hillary Clinton's essay on the art of smart power http://t.co/EnpufQfL Hillary Clinton explains the novel range of diplomatic, social,...
View ArticleAtheism+: the new New Atheists
New Statesman - Atheism+: the new New Atheists http://t.co/x3YeRA08 This new movement has an energy that makes it hard to ignore. Link - Trackbacks
View ArticleAndrew Mitchell denies calling police "fucking plebs"
Andrew Mitchell denies calling police officers "fucking plebs" http://t.co/mbXGVSbq Chief whip reportedly launched into a class-based rant against officers. Link - Trackbacks
View ArticleWhy did it take ten years to block the extradition of Gary McKinnon?
Why did it take ten years to block the #McKinnon extradition, me at @NewStatesman: http://t.co/iK4wWfPc #FreeGary The computer hacker's extradition is finally blocked by the Home Secretary. Link -...
View ArticleThe Times and NightJack: an anatomy of a failure
Me at @NewStatesman - The Times and NightJack, an anatomy of a failure: http://t.co/YrsR8XfH #Leveson #NightJack Current affairs, world politics, the arts and more from Britain's award-winning magazine...
View ArticleWhat happens when you swear at the police, when you're not Andrew Mitchell
What happens when you swear at the police, when you're not Andrew Mitchell - http://t.co/vsjewRQi Whether or not the Chief Whip said “plebs” is irrelevant if he is allowed to evade the rule of law...
View ArticleNew Statesman - Katie Price to found free school for special needs children
Katie Price to found free school for special needs children http://t.co/lqtg9KLf Current affairs, world politics, the arts and more from Britain's award-winning magazine Link - Trackbacks
View ArticleThe angry fundamentalists of the church of gaming
The vicious fundamentalists of the church of gaming: http://t.co/YQc6scy0 @monglor asks "why are gamers such an angry bunch?" Current affairs, world politics, the arts and more from Britain's...
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