Last night ITV’s regional news broadcast Westcountry Today carried a brief story on the Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm near Bristol. This educational venue has cropped up previously in other news sources and the press releases of certain pressure groups for its alleged promotion of creationist ideology. Last night’s coverage was focused on the establishment’s winning [...]
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“There’s none so blind as them what won’t listen”
Posted by Chris Nash on August 4, 2010
http://comradenash.wordpress.com/2010/08/04/theres-none-so-blind-as-them-what-wont-listen/
That Flotilla incident.
To form an opinion of someone or something prior to obtaining evidence to justify that position is prejudice. To continue to hold that opinion in the face of conflicting evidence is dogmatic. Needless to say there has been plenty of both dogma and prejudice involved in Israel’s latest venture onto the world’s front pages. From [...]
Posted by Chris Nash on June 13, 2010
http://comradenash.wordpress.com/2010/06/13/that-flotilla-incident/
U.N.fit for purpose
The UN’s permanent investigator of alleged Israeli human rights violations, Richard Falk, has called for an economic blockade on the state of Israel. The proposed boycott would be justified as a response to the blockade imposed by Israel on materials entering Gaza. Mr Falk made a thinly veiled comparison between Israel and Nazi Germany, describing [...]
Posted by Chris Nash on December 31, 2009
http://comradenash.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/u-n-fit-for-purpose/
Should Tweeters be executed?
If it ever turns out that there genuinely is a secret global elite controlling society, then at present my money is on it being the Twitterati. Looks at the facts people! Already we’ve silenced the Daily Mail, and more importantly a fellow who dared criticise Stephen Fry; now we’ve forced the BBC to back down! [...]
Posted by Chris Nash on December 17, 2009
http://comradenash.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/should-tweeters-be-executed/
Of Minarets and Men
I wasn’t going to wade into this whole Swiss ban on minarets thing. Any issue where one conflates race, religion, democracy, and (worst of all) referenda is going to be trouble. But then a Bulgarian mate invited me to a Facebook group about it (and as we all know Facebook groups are the epitome of social [...]
Posted by Chris Nash on December 8, 2009
http://comradenash.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/of-minarets-and-men/
Too right?
Missed this story at the time, but just caught up with it on timesonline. Should the Tories win the next general election, it is suggested that the influx of new Tory MPs will make the parliamentary Conservative party far more socially conservative and move it significantly to the right of its leader. Something of a [...]
Posted by Chris Nash on May 9, 2009
http://comradenash.wordpress.com/2009/05/09/too-right/
Time to scrap the United Nations?
News on the upcoming “Durban II” UN talks on racism, due to be held in Geneva, suggests that a number of nations including the US and Canada may be thinking of boycotting it. The reason given is due to fears that the event will be hijaked by those nations who wish to promote an anti-israel [...]
Posted by Chris Nash on April 20, 2009
http://comradenash.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/time-to-scrap-the-united-nations/
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