Entries by tag: humanrights
- Why you should care about the Muslim headscarf ban
- Hear, hear, @aryngbeck!
(tags: humanrights eu race )
- Unspeakable Realities Block Universal Health Coverage In America
- Race and class and history.
(tags: uspolitics ushealth ) - What the war on terror looks like
- What's really happening in Iraq.
(tags: iraq ) - How to manage Brexit
- More sense from @AndrewDuffEU.
(tags: brexit ukpolitics eu ) - Brexit reinforces Britain's imperial amnesia
- Great @gideonrachman piece (if you can get past paywall).
(tags: brexit ukpolitics eu ) - Justice evades Slovenia’s ‘erased’ citizens
- A stain on Slovenia's past and present.
(tags: humanrights slovenia )
- Swallows and Amazons: The Syria connection
- Missed this at the time. Fascinating.
(tags: books syria ) - United Nations Committee Affirms Abortion As A Human Right
- Headline exaggerates, but important news.
(tags: humanrights abortion ) - Peter Capaldi confirms he'll leave Doctor Who at end of series 10
- No big surprise.
(tags: DoctorWho )
- EU Law Analysis: Brexit and the Future of Human Rights Law in the UK
- Not pretty.
(tags: brexit eu ukpolitics humanrights ) - The EU’s Brexit negotiators prepare for disaster
- The Economist reports.
(tags: ukpolitics eu brexit ) - Learning Avar
- It's not easy. (Difficult language, few materials.)
(tags: languages ) - Most Mammals Take 21 Seconds to Pee
- Aren't you glad you know that now?
(tags: biology ) - Russia Today and the post-truth virus
- That "Canadian journalist" and Syria.
(tags: russia syria internet )
- What if Star Trek Had Never Existed?
- Indeed.
(tags: Sf ) - It’s time for the United States to act on Azerbaijan
- Too right.
(tags: azerbaijan humanrights ) - First Past the Post is now harming unionism
- From @gerrylynch.
(tags: northernireland ) - How Hillary Clinton can get that ‘presidential look’
- Important advice.
(tags: uspolitics sexandgenderandsexuality )
- Worldcon 74 Interview: Dave McCarty Talks Hugo Award Process
- Thanks for shoutout to me at 17:50!
(tags: sf hugos ) - Four reasons why Brexit negotiations are harder than you (or the Cabinet) might think
- Good analysis.
(tags: brexit eu ukpolitics ) - Russia blocks re-appointment of Finn as OSCE Minorities High Commissioner
- Outrageous!
(tags: finland russia humanrights ) - Wavy Greenland rock features 'are oldest fossils'
- Or maybe not; your mileage may vary.
(tags: fossils greenland geology ) - Basra, dystopian city
- Well done, Bush and Blair.
(tags: iraq ) - Why isn’t the 75th anniversary of World War II a bigger deal?
- Good question.
(tags: history wwii )
- Candidates' Commitment to Human Rights Should Play Crucial Role in UN Secretary-General Election
- Who's failed to deliver?
(tags: humanrights un ) - Who Is to Blame for Brexit’s Appeal? British Newspapers
- Mr. Johnson and his fellow Brexit proponents are now campaigning against the caricature of the European Union that he himself helped create. They are asking the British people to part with a monster about as real as the one in Loch Ness.
(tags: ukpolitics eu ) - Nicholas Whyte: Brussels policy machinery is actually very open to external input
- The Belfast Newsletter prints my email message.
(tags: croatia ukpolitics migration Balkans montenegro eu cyprus moldova kosovo northernireland ) - Chicken litter to power up Ballymena biogas plant
- Chicken poo illuminates Northern Ireland!
(tags: northernireland )
- If Azerbaijan is a democracy, why were we imprisoned for our views?
- "If."
(tags: azerbaijan humanrights ) - How to Hack an Election
- A chilling read.
(tags: elections democracy )
- [Mar. 24, 1961] The Second Sex In SF
- First of a series.
(tags: sf sexandgenderandsexuality ) - Moon's axis wandered billions of years ago
- Wow.
(tags: astronomy ) - Disaster for Theresa May as legal ruling brings student deportations to a halt
- "How did the Home Office get to the point where it started deporting innocent people on the basis of unreliable hearsay evidence and without any proper judicial remedy? Why did the home secretary breach her duty of candour with those being accused of fraud? How is a private firm contracted to do public service work for the UK government issuing fantastical information to the Home Office? Why is it getting away with shutting up shop and refusing to comply with a tribunal? How did the Home Office end up being completely reliant on a foreign private contractor in the first place? And what is the home secretary going to do to contact the people who were unlawfully removed from this country so that they can now return to the UK?"
(tags: ukpolitics humanrights migration ) - Boris outs himself on Brexit, gay rights
- More lies from the Leave camp.
(tags: ukpolitics eu sexandgenderandsexuality ) - New Tolkienian names for mountains etc on Titan
- Hooray!
(tags: maps astronomy tolkien )
- Referendum madness
- Direct democracy's attractive flaws.
(tags: netherlands eu democracy voting ) - Carswell wrong on snooper rights
- Quelle surprise.
(tags: ukpolitics eu humanrights internet ) - Headline on Malheur occupation is inaccurate, irresponsible
- Ursula Le Guin writes to the Oregonian.
(tags: uspolitics ) - Five planets visible in the pre-dawn sky, 20 Jan-20 Feb
- Worth getting up early for.
(tags: astronomy ) - Cameron cut funding for English lessons, wants to deport women who can't speak it
- Fighting radicalism by threatening to deport mothers for not taking classes that you've cut anyway. Yeah, right.
(tags: waronterror ukpolitics migration ) - Horsewhipping for Jesus
- Muscular Christianity, 1867
(tags: religion ) - How the UK's housing crisis builds a case for Brexit
- Everything is connected.
(tags: ukpolitics eu housing )
- The tube at a standstill - why TfL stopped people walking up the escalators
- Clearing bottlenecks by standing still
(tags: london ) - Fifty years ago today, the United States of America dropped four nuclear bombs on Spain.
- *gulp*
(tags: usa spain war ) - A neuroscientist says there's a powerful benefit to exercise that is rarely discussed
- Yeah, I know...
(tags: health lifehacking ) - Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years
- Wow.
(tags: australia biology ) - Referendum madness
- Direct democracy's attractive flaws.
(tags: netherlands eu democracy voting ) - Carswell wrong on snooper rights
- Quelle surprise.
(tags: ukpolitics eu humanrights internet )
- UK govt cuts a disability benefit that already leaves a third of recipients struggling to afford food
War on the disabled, again.
- An ordinary week in Serbia
Florian nails it.
- 5 Myths About the UN Human Rights Council
Setting the record straight.
- Donald Trump wants to ban the internet, will ask Bill Gates to ‘close it up’
Dear God.
- A Note on Trump: We Are No Longer Entertained
Arianna Huffington draws a line.
- The fall of Jersey: how a tax haven goes bust
Fascinating.
- Do fish fart?
In case you were wondering.
- A Milestone Not a Turning Point
Theo Moore @ChairmanYaffle on Cameron's EU demands.
- Chemical element symbols that are also ISO 3166 country code abbreviations
Because you needed to know.
- The Misuse of Interpol’s Database
Getting other countries to pursue your dissidents.
- John Bossy obituary
Lovely write-up in the @guardian.
- The Hidden Message of Saga, or, Why We Can't Help But Love It
Amen.
- How to Defeat Religious Violence
Jonathan Sacks reflects.
- We pay, but have no say: Norway and the EU
Former foreign minister @EspenBarthEide explains.
- Naked Prose, by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Writng about sex.
- Roger Stone, Political Animal
Extraordinary piece (from 2007) about an extraordinary operator.
- Azerbaijan: rigged elections next Sunday
Great piece by @CommissionerHR, mentions my ex-colleague Ilgar Mammadov.
- Ilgar Mammadov severely beaten in prison
Aliyev's goons in typical form.
- Seven takewawys from the Greek election.
Story continues.
- Archbishop of Canterbury to host refugees at official London residence
"Jesus was a refugee."
- Don't Breathe Here
"every major car manufacturer is selling diesel cars that fail to meet EU air pollution limits".
- Hugo Award Categories: Magazines and Editors
@KevinStandlee proposes a sensible reform, which I support.
- The Guardian view on the refugee crisis: it is people and stories that move us, not statistics
Name check for @tnielsenhayden.
- Azerbaijani reporter sentenced to more than 7 years after a farcical trial
Tightening control.
- Grim crisis within EU borders
Human Rights Watch nails it.
- @RozKaveney's gut-wrenching, angry sonnet
"He died that wicked men could win some votes."
- Jean-Claude Juncker: Asylum standards are in EU law, but are they in our hearts?
Good question.
- The Covert World of People Trying to Edit Wikipedia for Pay
Of course, they don't just try, they often succeed!
- Search for Missing Woman from 1946 Photograph of the Warsaw Ghetto
*shiver*
- Azerbaijan makes a mockery of justice as couple sentenced in political show trial
My friends Leila and Arif jailed on trumped-up charges.
- Attack on the pentagon results in discovery of new mathematical tile
That's "pentagon" with a small "p".
- Azerbaijan: a journalist dies
And the @khadija0576 trial continues.
- Fabulous Star Trek fanvid for Shatner's "Common People"
You're welcome.
- Jailed Azeri Reporter Ismayilova Wins Press Freedom Award
I hope that this will accelerate her release.
- In Memoriam, Professor Stephen Ellis, 1953-2015
Sad news of a former colleague.
- We Need Clean-Energy Innovation, and Lots of It
Bill Gates speaks.
- If Michael Gove listens to Daniel Hannan's honeyed polemic on Human Rights he really will get into a muddle
An excellent fisking!
- So you’re related to Charlemagne? You and every other living European…
Good summary.
- #hometovote Edinburgh to Dublin
Great story!
- Caitlin Green: The medieval 'New England': a forgotten Anglo-Saxon colony on the north-eastern Black Sea coast
Extraordinary!
- Now is the time to reform the Lords
Conservative MEP @CharlesTannock tries to convince his party.
- EU Tweets of last week from @viEUws
Hilarious re Farage. Serious re Macedonia.
- Human Rights Act Repeal and Devolution: Quick Points and Further Resources on Scotland and Northern Ireland
My old friend Christine Bell writes.
- The Ghost in the Machine
When your dead relative remains virtually alive.
- Father’s Day « Adventures with the Wife in Space
A particularly glorious entry. "It's all @paul_cornell's fault."
- Cameron’s parliamentary challenge: managing the Lords
Tories will have to confront need for reform!
- At its best, the Government's plan to scrap the Human Rights Act is empty pandering to xenophobia
You have been warned.
- Eric Flint: and again on the Hugo Awards
Long but interesting.
- The insider's cultural guide to Banja Luka: where life is lived in cafes
Ah, nostalgia for 1997-98!!!
- The 14 Worst Human Rights Myths
Fighting the lies.
- Six ways Nick Clegg steered the Liberal Democrats to disaster
David Steel reflects.
- Shannon Wheeler - McDonald’s Coffee Lawsuit
The truth.
- Autistic Teenager and Family Removed from Flight
@united scores again!
- Amnesty on human rights in Ferguson, MO
Not a pretty picture. (NB libertarians strangely silent.
- 72 Hours of #Gamergate
Looking at the numbers.
- Love and Liberty: Richard and I Are Married! Maius Intra Qua Extra
A Doctor Who wedding.
- The Five(ish) Doctors) Reboot - Deleted Scenes
1 min 32 secs
- What It’s Like to Carry Your Nobel Prize through Airport Security
"Who gave it to you?" "The King of Sweden."
- Azerbaijan: New Effort to Crush Independent Groups
Getting worse.
- Azerbaijan: Journalist and political analyst Arzu Geybullayeva threatened
Another friend threatened.
- A coup in North Korea
A defector tells all.
- An Occasional Guide to EU Politics: The Surprised Commissioner.
Satire, of course. (An MEP in Brussels on Sunday??)
- Defending the unjustly persecuted
Former Soviet dissidents speak out for Leyla Yunus.
- The Guardian view on scrapping the Human Rights Act
Stupid populist pandering.
- The Revelations of Marilynne Robinson - NYTimes.com
Interview with the writer.
- IRA tried to kidnap the Prince of Wales
(In 1922.)
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