In a conversation on the BBC blog Will & Testament, I made the following comments which relate to some of my earlier articles regarding the BBC:
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To understand the BBC, you must understand the UK. I would describe Britain as having one foot in America, one foot in Europe. This is evident culturally and […]

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Two weeks ago, the Imus witch hunt was in full swing as the Reverend Al Sharpton among others called for the firing of radio personality Don Imus for calling the women of the Rutgers University basketball team “nappy-headed ho’s”. This, Sharpton alleged, was a racist slur against black women. His best bud, the […]

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The music of Sheryl Crow is fantastic. It’s in my iPod, and I listen to it fairly frequently. Crow is a great musician, singer and songwriter. But she knows shit about shit. Let me tell you what I mean.
Sheryl Crow has teamed up with the environmental activist Laurie David in an […]

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Timothy McVeigh used fertiliser.
Now Seung-Hui, a 23 year old student, has used firearms to commit a heinous act of mass murder at his university, Virginia Tech. In each case the most pertinent question one can ask is Why?’ rather than How? The ‘why’ is an analysis of the reason the event occurred. […]

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My response to the Imus controversy was summed up in two words I uttered on the radio yesterday: “selective outrage”. (My point was that, as a society, we are prone to choosing what to be outraged about, making it fake and dishonest. This was particularly evident in the Imus controversy.) I’ve noticed […]

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I’m truly disgusted by all the faux ‘outrage’ over what Don Imus said on his syndicated morning show last week. He’s spent every day since then on a tour of apology, from visiting Al Sharpton’s show ‘Keeping It Real’ to appearing on the Today show this morning.
It’s nothing but a witch-hunt. Imus does […]

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When will the European Union learn that it has no right to interfere in private business decisions? The news today that Europe is launching an antitrust probe against Apple, Universal, Sony BMG, Warner and EMI should come as no surprise to those, like myself, who have been closely watching the increasing tenacity with which […]

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Today’s decision of the U.S. Supreme Court permitting the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) to regulate greenhouse gas emissions relies constitutionally upon subscription to the statement ‘Greenhouse gases are pollutants.’
But are they? Is carbon dioxide an air pollutant? To define carbon dioxide as an air pollutant certainly provides a nice way to regulate […]

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