“Nearly a millionon your site meter! Can the millionth visitor post a screeny?” – Rob Read, in the comments to the previous post. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

David Hicks, the soon-to-be-British Taleban, looks kind of sweet and gullible in the BBC photo, doesn’t he? This page has the usual archive picture we see in Australia (scroll down) (and The Age is a Fairfax paper – Fairfax is the Australian equivalent of an infernal hybrid of The Guardian, The Independent and the NYT, so it would hardly be worried about being too soft on the terrorist). Click through … Continue reading →

They’re still at it on Sydney: “The fighting then spread to other parts of the city, injuring more than 30 people, including police officers. The violence continued on Monday night, apparently in retaliation, despite calls for calm and ethnic tolerance by Prime Minister John Howard and other senior figures.” Quite wrong – the white on Lebanese attacks had ended by about mid-afternoon on Sunday. By Sunday evening, the violence was … Continue reading →

Commenter Dr Who notes NewsNight’s Maoist agitprop, you guessed it, a war crimes trial of the Coalition. The comments are a laugh and a half. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

…it appears, as those Kurds who had the temerity to stand up to one of the 20th century’s great mass killers apparently set up a one-party state: “But while Kurdish officials say that democracy has flourished in their semi-autonomous region since splitting off from Saddam Hussein’s central government in 1992, there is only one way considered acceptable to vote here.” Sounds just like more of the same, doesn’t it? However, … Continue reading →

Yes, Dr Who again (Natalie discused it here previously): ‘”It’s Christmas Day, a day of peace,” said chief writer Russell T Davies. “There is absolutely an anti-war message because that’s what I think.” Actress Penelope Wilton plays the Prime Minister in the hour-long show. In one scene she says of the US president: “He is not my boss and he is certainly not turning this into a war.” Decision condemned … Continue reading →

Presumably the BBC means “non-descript white” in the sidebar on ancestry here, because the last time I looked the rest of the people listed were also Australians: “Total population: 21 million Australian: 6.7m (38.7%) English: 6.4m (36.5%) Irish: 1.9m (11%) Italian: 800,000 (4.6%) German: 742,000 (4.3%) Chinese: 557,000 (3.2%) Greek: 376,000 (2.2%) Dutch: 269,000 (1.5%) Lebanese: 162,000 (0.9%) Indian: 157,000 Vietnamese: 157,000 (0.9%)” Note that this is an ancestry table, … Continue reading →

Paul Reynolds (sorry – ed) has a balanced and informative discussion of the US position on torture and its definition. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

After Natalie’s good analysis of what is wrong with the BBC’s coverage of the Sydney culture wars, I note the “See also” box at the top right of this page links to ‘Australia’s unease with outsiders‘. I note in this inflammatory and pernicious guff the sort of generalisations that would never be employed of “people of Middle-eastern background” (or insert desired trendy PC shibboleth): ‘They want the drawbridge raised – … Continue reading →

(see clip): Study this BBC Views Online article, Jail for ‘honour killing’ family, then complete the following sentence: The so-called ‘honour’ killers are ________. Clue: See this Times article, Family jailed for ‘honour killing’, for more details than BBC Views Online’s curiously abridged coverage. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.