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5 Macrolog entries tagged with ‘guardian’
The Day After Fri 08 Jul 2005
It’s the day after. Just one day, 24 little hours, but it feels like a lot longer, what with everything that I’ve seen and read, all the startling images from news crews and camera phones, the vivid accounts of eyewitnesses...
Explosions in London Thu 07 Jul 2005 | 3 Comments
Every news channel here is reporting on a series of explosions in central London this morning. There are reports of blasts in a number of stations along the Metropolitan Circle and Piccadilly underground lines, as well as an explosion on...
Cruel... but Usual Tue 01 Mar 2005
Gary Younge’s thoughtful commentary in today’s Guardian takes Britain’s foreign policy to task, comparing the abuses at Camp Breadbasket — Britain’s Abu Ghraib — with the British Empire’s long history of colonial oppression, highlighting the refusal of the establishment to...
Election Response Roundup Thu 11 Nov 2004 | 1 Comments
In an appendix of sorts to last week’s US election rant, here’s a roundup of related commentary that caught my attention (and might otherwise have been lost in the Linklog): Simon Schama: Onward Christian soldiersHistorian Schama sees the US as...
The War on Words Wed 10 Nov 2004
Philip Pullman writes in last weekend's Guardian Review on the fate of literature as democratic activity in an increasingly didactic, theocratic world: The democracy of reading exists in the to-and-fro between reader and text, when each is free to engage...
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