I love subversion like this: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34958282
we are sentient beings capable of choice, and that this is highly valued, but choices are made in context. If the context is a community with no fruit and vegetable shops, but a string of fast-food outlets along the high street, then people choose between one form of unhealthy food and another. If junk food […]
Well now, that’s interesting… MI5 has concluded that there is no easy way to identify those who become involved in terrorism in Britain, according to a classified internal research document on radicalisation seen by the Guardian. The sophisticated analysis, based on hundreds of case studies by the security service, says there is no single pathway […]
Perfect metaphor for the ‘War on Terror’: Man tries to put out garbage fire by driving over it in a van loaded with ammunition via @markmackinnon
mamasnark on Twitter: “Basically, Trump is what would happen if the comments section became a human and ran for president.”
Touché: If you don’t watch the extensive foreign reporting we provide, it must be partly our fault. We have to look for new ways to tell the story – did you see our recent interactive online package that asked viewers to make the choices refugees have to make? Several of my colleagues – Marie Colvin […]
Nice thing to do: for the creators of one of the most sampled ‘break beats’ in history This past February, a UK-based music fan named Martyn Webster created “The Winstons Amen Breakbeat Gesture,” a GoFundMe campaign established to repay the group for their lasting contribution to music. Webster began the fundraiser after watching a brief […]
