April 2011

Thames Clipper video: Tower Bridge to Embankment, London

A lovely trip through the centre of London the other week by Thames Clipper, under the shadow of the absurdly huge Shard-enfreude which looks like the Tyrrell Corporation in Blade Runner. Includes Tower Bridge, the Tower of London, City Hall, The Shard, Globe Theatre, Millennium Bridge, Tate Modern, St Paul’s Cathedral, National Theatre, Royal Festival […]

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Libya: the hypocrisy of liberal intervention

Brilliant article by Johann Hari in the Independent yesterday on the real reasons behind the West’s compulsion to stage “humanitarian” intervention with things that go bang in countries whose people we helped keep down with more things that go bang. Take the present round of Middle Eastern revolutions rocking our oil-owning buddies including Libya, where

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