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Timely, as an ex-prime minister and wanted war criminal converts from one form of Christianity to another (he must be really envious of the Catholic Church's 2,000-year history of mass slaughter and systematic abuse): 1. Soldiers at Fort Jackson Army Base pose with their rifles and Bibles...

From religious fundamentalism to radical secular geopolitical analysis: "Most recognize Amriki as being the main person behind the al-Sahab media organisation, and it is thought that he runs its editing suite from the back of a van somewhere in and around the border areas between Afghanistan...

I've been listening to Roisin Murphy a lot since her break with Moloko. This 'exiled princess of glam' is in top form in this brilliant video of a superlative pop song (Overpowered). It is no coincidence that the former group she fronted for many years was called Moloko, for it directly...

In furtherance of the drug debate ...

What's unnerving about this story is how the 'feminazi', gliberal reproductive futurists, seek to re-embrace structuralism via a hilarious Hegelian reversal: by completely abandoning the traditional meaning of the Santa-festive "ho ho ho" to fully embrace/concede the peripheral, derogatory...

As Vim packs his bags to visit New York's ghettos under Nomad's supervision, he'd be best advised to avoid dressing up as a Manchester Muslim, seeing as Britain's first Muslim Minister has just expressed his disappointment after he was detained at a US airport, where his hand luggage was...

As the search for the absent Madeleine (TM), bolstered by the further branding of 'loss nostalgia' via an aggressive advertising campaign just orchestrated by the affected parties, continues, concerned Mediums turn their attention to the likelihood of a spectral rendezvous between Madeleine...

Undecided about whether this should really be included under the Thought or Technology sections, Nature will have to do, given its hilarious moralistic-biologistic determinism (maybe then, given its reductivist, reality-principle biopolitics, it should be in the Politics section) though, at...

A humourous 'distraction'. Political Attention Deficit Disorder – New Psychiatric Condition By Joel S. Hirschhorn, 27th June, 2007 According to a report not yet released, the Council on Science and Public Health of the American Medical Association has recommended that a chronic and...

CB2 (Child-robot with Biomimetic Body), unveiled June 1st at Osaka University Alan Turing, P K Dick, Stanley Kubrick and a host of others might be impressed, but the public reaction has almost unanimously been one of fear - that its weird, uncanny, scary, frightening, creepy...

No comment. Yes, tea always wins the day, doesn't it? If you examine the posts in that thread, I'm confident that a definitive answer to that question will be readily forthcoming. Tea's "intent" was quite clearly to derail serious discussion of the issue, which, BTW, he has now succeeded...

The University and College Union, one of Britain's largest unions representing 120,000 college and university teachers voted yesterday to endorse a Palestinian trades’ union call for a boycott of all Israeli academic institutions. Approved at the inaugural congress of the UCU , the resolution...

Utterly astonishing - and a serious suspension of disbelief necessary - but there is increasing evidence emerging that both the numbers of U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq and the numbers of mercenaries in Iraq contracted to Private Security Companies are steadily but surely rising, and at an...

Just when he was in need of some urgent media oxygen-support for his new documentary, Sicko, (A comedy about 45 million people with no health care in the richest country on earth) showing at Cannes next week, along comes the U.S. Department of the Treasury (see copy of letter below) to...

" ... Maybe a man's name doesn't matter all that much." Orson Welles on Gothic Chartres [from F For Fake]

Cillian Murphy in Sunshine Thought this, Scottish film-maker Danny Boyle's most daringly ambitious film project to date, might be worth a mention here. I haven't seen it yet, but am about to ... It's been - how long? Decades? - since good, metaphysical SF has graced the big screen, and while...

Choice of forum category is really indeterminate for this topic. "Israel has chosen its entry for the Eurovision Song contest – Push the Button by Teapacks. However there is doubt that it will be able to follow in the footsteps of Izhar Cohen and Alpha Beta, Milk and Honey and Dana...

............."Be normal! Be normal!" ......................................................................... Laxmi - Goddess of Wealth. The REAL of class antagonism - via displaced racism - finally raises its head on ... Reality TV!! Only to be delirially disavowed ... Interesting analyses...

Robert Altman, February 20, 1925 - November 20, 2006. Favourites: Thieves Like Us, Nashville, The Player, Short Cuts, and Gosford Park. Filmography The Delinquents (1957) (Altman's big-screen directorial debut) The James Dean Story (1957) (documentary) (co-dir: George W. George) The...

This isn't a trick question, but - in the light of the debate about racism in the Borat film - what is the racist status of the following satirical portrayal (self-reflexively in the style of Punch magazine, perhaps?) of Robert Mugabe? An offensively racist stereotype or a needed and legitimate...