Tag: international
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With apologies to Michael Foucault. I chickened out of posting this yesterday, but with embassies burning down around the world, I felt it needed to be said.
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You know, when I first started Quaequam Blog! 1.0, one of my objectives, such as I had them, was to tease out the intersections of politics and comics. Over the past two years I have to say I’ve found myself getting less interested in comics – I’m finding it increasingly difficult to find anything that…
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An interesting story from Yellow Peril: British Iranians protest outside Lib Dem HQ in protest at a leading party member’s attitude to the repressive, Islamist, regime in power there. A small point that Harry’s Place and KK could do well to remember: Emma Nicholson is one of the few outspoken supporters of the Iraq War…
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What kind of a world do we live in where John Howard can be winning a poll as the “worst abuser of democracy” over Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by a factor of 7:1? I have no brief for Howard, who is extremely bad news and bears considerable responsibility for the riots currently going on in his country.…
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Matthew Turner has updated his Humanitarian Intervention Index (I don’t remember him doing a first version). While satirical in intent and fascinating to examine, Matt should be careful here. Think of King Cnut and his commanding back the waves stunt. Think of Michael Young and his criticism of what he identified as “meritocracy”. In both…