The Athenian

On the move

Tue, 19 Apr 2005 17:05:52 GMT

I'm trying out TypePad. Come and see me over there.

Strange Reaction

Fri, 15 Apr 2005 21:46:47 GMT

Very obscure punk music? By all means.

Viva el Unitarian Jihad!

Fri, 15 Apr 2005 21:37:09 GMT

The Unitarian Jihad. Extremism in defence of moderation is no vice.

Hang the gays and burn the foreigners - Howard

Fri, 15 Apr 2005 12:51:30 GMT

If I've ever said that a Government statement sounded like a Daily Mail headline, I'm sorry, OK? Now I realise how terrifying that would really be.

Wed, 13 Apr 2005 22:58:48 GMT

Who should I vote for?

Your expected outcome:

Labour

Your actual outcome:

	Labour 20
Conservative -51
	Liberal Democrat 50
UK Independence Party -24
	Green 20

You should vote: Liberal Democrat

The LibDems take a strong stand against tax cuts and a strong one in favour of public services: they would make long-term residential care for the elderly free across the UK, and scrap university tuition fees. They are in favour of a ban on smoking in public places, but would relax laws on cannabis. They propose to change vehicle taxation to be based on usage rather than ownership.

Take the test at Who Should You Vote For

Green party manifesto

Tue, 12 Apr 2005 20:14:08 GMT

The Green Party, practising what it preaches (or saving money) is releasing an online-only manifesto.

Vote for free expression

Tue, 12 Apr 2005 20:10:03 GMT

Vote for the blogs that best support freedom of expression around the world.

Let us, kind Lesbia, give away...

Mon, 11 Apr 2005 18:29:20 GMT

A fantastic multi-lingual edition of Catullus.

Electiontastic

Mon, 11 Apr 2005 13:59:48 GMT

A great list of UK election resources at DO-wire.

Brewing in Horsham

Sat, 09 Apr 2005 17:29:47 GMT

I had a good pint while I was out today - Hepworth's Pullman Ale, brewed in Horsham. I looked on the internet for more information on the brewery and found this interesting article on the fate on brewing in Horsham. If reading it makes you want to support a local Sussex brewer, I can recommend Harveys of Lewes.

Find an alternative to Starbucks with...

Thu, 07 Apr 2005 19:20:41 GMT

Starbucks Delocator.

The arrogance of small media

Thu, 07 Apr 2005 19:14:57 GMT

So, that Terri Schiavo memo that was obviously a fake, er, wasn't a fake. But it was, umm, not completely accurately presented, or something. Is there a moral equivalence between bloggers who get it wrong, and 'big media' who get it wrong? Metafilter discusses.

A Pope-y political broadcast

Thu, 07 Apr 2005 19:02:17 GMT

Dennis Brown pushes the envelope on the tradition of not campaigning before papal elections.

Who owns Osama bin Laden?

Thu, 07 Apr 2005 17:03:25 GMT

Martin Peretz writes about the war on terror in the current New Republic. He says, inter alia:

What the Bush administration gradually came to realize was that fighting the Muslim terrorist international could not be done in a vacuum.

Even if one agrees that Al-Qaeda and their allies are a 'terrorist international' (they are certainly less organised than the Communist version), it sounds very wrong to describe them as the "Muslim terrorist international". That infelicitous phrase implies some sort of sponsorship arrangement on behalf of the hundreds of millions of Muslims who want nothing to do with bin Laden. To compare a similar case, would the IRA have been called "the Catholic terrorist organisation"? Or - perhaps even more like the current situation - would ETA, the IRA, the Red Brigades have been banded together as a "Catholic terrorist international"? Bin Laden and his ilk are terrorists, are Muslims, and are - at least perhaps - an 'international'. But then again, they all have beards and read the Koran. Can we settle on 'beardy terrorist international'?