Another one bites the dust.
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Europe
30Nov04 — 0
A Pretty Plague
If you can get hold of a copy of today’s International Herald Tribune there is a superb and surprisingly beautiful front page photograph illustrating an item about the pink locusts in the Canaries. It was taken by Carlos Guevara for Reuters.
Read More20Nov04 — 0
Robert Kagan Is Smarter Than Jacques Chirac
Judith was so right to recommend this, even allowing for the terrible, clunky play-on-words at the very end.
Read More17Nov04 — 1
Racist Plonker or Why I Want England To Win Tonight
FOX Sports has a story about racist chanting by the Spanish crowd during the England-Spain Under-21s friendly yesterday. This relevant snippet is appended: “The 66-year-old Spain coach admits he made the comment about Henry. He says it was not meant as a racist remark but was to motivate Jose Antonio Reyes, Henry’s Arsenal colleague, who […]
Read More13Nov04 — 6
Now A Major Motion Picture
A Jerry Bruckheimer Production 45 MINUTES starring Aaron Eckhart as George W Bush and Don Cheadle as Tony Blair [“I’m telling you, Steve, the sidekick has gotta to be black.”] [Urban skyline. Dusk.] TOUGH STREETS. NEED TOUGH COPS. DETECTIVE GEORGE “DUBYA” BUSH—HE’S WRESTLED WITH DRINK. HE’S WRESTLED WITH DRUGS. HE’S WRESTLED WITH THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. […]
Read More05Nov04 — 3
The Anglo-Saxonsphere
A frequent correspondent points me to this story in which Jean-Claude Juncker, the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, takes exception to the Prime Minister of Iraq describing non-participants in the liberation of his country as “spectator” states. My correspondent suggests that, rather than apologize to Juncker, Allawi should have told the esteemed European leader to “go […]
Read More04Nov04 — 1
Crap Headlines Of The Week
Thanks to Claire for this one from The Guardian. Here’s one that was changed at the source, so I only have a screenshot of the Google News link. And this one is from those sexually liberated Aussies.
Read More31Oct04 — 4
You And Whose Army?
I could rant for England on the subject of the Common Agricultural Policy, but I can’t seem to get very worked up about the European Constitution. This might be stupidity on my part, but what exactly would happen if, after we’ve signed it, a future UK government just refused to accept some part of it […]
Read More24Oct04 — 16
God Bless Islington!
Dear British Guardian Readers I cannot tell you how grateful I am to be able to write to you on White House notepaper. I cannot thank you enough for your cruciate support in our country’s recent presidential election. When my colleagues used to show me cuttings from the opinion pages of your newspaper, the cartoons, […]
Read More17Oct04 — 1
More Racism
Courtesy of The Motley Fool: An Englishman, a Scotsman, and a Nigerian are sitting in the maternity ward of a hospital waiting for the births of their respective children. They are all very nervous, pacing, fidgeting, and fretting. Suddenly a nurse bursts through the double doors saying, “Gentlemen you won’t believe this, but your wives […]
Read More13Oct04 — 36
Hating Themselves
Very shortly after I started PooterGeek, I posted a link to an article in The Independent, in the days when that newspaper was still in possession of some of its marbles. It described the abuse an American couple received in a British supermarket queue from a British family, abuse based solely on that couple’s being […]
Read More10Oct04 — 1
The Tories Warned Us
This is the kind of thing that happens when you let the Germans reunite and people stop hunting wild animals.
Read More04Oct04 — 1
SaintWatch
PooterGeek’s Catholic Affairs correspondent texted me from the beatification ceremony in Rome yesterday. Apparently it was very hot.
Read More28Sep04 — 12
Willkommen in der Schweiz
Even if you, your father, and your grandfather spent their entire lives in Switzerland you do not automatically qualify for Swiss citizenship. The Swiss voted any change in this and their other naturalization laws down this week. This report on the vote is graced by a poster used in the referendum campaign. The poster shows […]
Read More04Sep04 — 0
The Dark Side
According to the Susurrator, Norm is the Obi Wan Kenobi of UK Leftie pro-war ‘Bloggers. As wisecracking skeptic, that makes me Han Solo. I pass you on to the wizard for reflection on yesterday’s atrocities.
Read More30Aug04 — 9
Cults
There were two other things I enjoyed reading in the edition of The Independent‘s “Review” that I mention below: Andy Gill’s record reviews, of course—he has this anachronistic tendency to write about the music itself and listen to black artists (without making excuses for them)—and a review of yet another book by a middle-class mother […]
Read More23Aug04 — 0
She Ain’t Heavy; She’s My Baba
Surely a candidate event for the next Olympic games. [It’s a slideshow, by the way, so keep clicking “Next”.]
Read More16Aug04 — 1
Retro-Blogging
One day in the nineties, my friend Hind, woke up and left her student house to go for a walk in Oxford. She threw on a sloppy sweater, pushed her hair into something like a do, and strolled up the Cowley Road towards the city centre. Some French schoolkids walked past her. One saw her, […]
Read More16Aug04 — 0
Finally The Vietnam Analogy Comes Into Its Own
A couple of weeks ago Italy beat the USA Olympic basketball team 95–78 in an exhibition match. On Sunday the USA lost 92–73 to Puerto Rico. Click here for an image of seven-foot beige people trying to make sense of the scoreboard [free New York Times registration]. Harry, of Chase Me Ladies, claimed that he […]
Read More10Aug04 — 1
Explosions In Turkish Capital
In the last couple of hours there’ve been reports of two bombs exploding in Istanbul. UPDATE from Claire: Two dead, seven injured.
Read More10Aug04 — 0
What Can You Say?
Claire emailed me this entry for the anti-Semitism Olympics. If you can only stomach an abbreviated version, Norm picked it up too.
Read More07Aug04 — 8
Love Me, Love My Princess
As an “adorable half-caste African”, I have been far too slow to ‘Blog this one. The Guardian dents what could have been a funny, understated report by resorting to this clumsy smear: “[Princess Michael] was born Marie-Christine von Reibnitz, daughter of an Austrian father with connections to the Nazi party.”
Read More21Jul04 — 0
Celebrate!
Today, 21Jul04, is the national day of Belgium.
Read More12Jul04 — 1
Hidden Among Us
At least coloured people have the community-spiritedness to make their status as such more-or-less obvious, thereby sparing innocent bystanders unnecessary unpleasantness and their enemies the inconvenience of having to mark them out with little stars—or bigger swastikas. (The photo accompanying that article reminds me that it would have been helpful to all the budding neo-Nazis […]
Read More24Jun04 — 0
Distractions
Leasey brings us a fascinating tiny game. I could warn you of the little wrinkles, but you'll have more fun working them out for yourself. She also recommends that we catch up on the latest drama in Britney's life. It's not just the world of international refereeing that's gone topsy-turvy: pork scratchings are becoming a […]
Read More20Apr04 — 1
Triumphant Return
Welcome back Timbeaux. While you’ve been sunning yourself, Tony’s been reading your ‘Blog and decided to do the right thing.
Read More14Nov03 — 0
German Intelligence vs. The Irish
There was an excellent spoof play on the strange comedy show Radio Nine, earlier this week. In it, a bunch of actors put on period Irish accents to do an historical drama “glorifying organized crime”—a tiny, sharp pin in the romantic bubble of Republican myth (and I’m supposed to be a Catholic). Ignore the misleading […]
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