Clearly the Chinese government has a poor grasp of history. Last time they tried to stop English dope peddlers we sent gunboats up the Yellow River and pounded their Mandarin asses until they agreed to be addicted to opium.
In those great days we were helped by the US, then Imperial apprentices, now big swinging dicks. [...]
Category Archives: Human rights
The Yellow Peril have executed one of our heroin smugglers. Send in the gunboats.
December 31, 2009 – 8:16 pm
Freedom of speech – Sri Lankan style
October 25, 2009 – 8:14 pm
Earlier this year the world’s media were largely banned from reporting in the North and East of Sri Lanka, with poignant echoes of Israel’s stance in Gaza. Some of us – mea culpa – believed the government when they claimed that it was largely for the safety of journalists and to avoid fanning the flickering [...]
The Legacy of Abuse in Sri Lanka – Nakba in the Indian ocean
October 19, 2009 – 12:01 pm
This article, by Anna Neistat, appeared in Foreign Policy in Focus, 16 October, 2009. Thus is publishing it because like the rest of the sane world, I am aghast that the actions of the Sri Lankan government are becoming more sinister by the day. Something should – and could – be done. Hit them where [...]
Carry on up the Khyber – Karzai's lead narrows (like we said it would)
August 25, 2009 – 9:08 pm
“If Karzai’s warlord cronies have over-egged the firnee and their boy romps home with an incredible margin, Iran-style riots are almost inevitable. On the other hand, if he narrowly wins, it will be more difficult for the opposition forces to cry foul. Given that he achieved only 54 per cent in 2004, the ‘ideal’ result [...]
Where's Gordon Brown in the Libyan desert storm?
August 23, 2009 – 7:12 pm
Over the past three days, as the Lockerbie ‘terrorist’ release turns into a full-blown international incident, we have heard not one word, or even a Twitter, from the man who saved the wurreld (and its banks). This is highly unusual; Gordon and his wife Sarah Twittered from Inverkilliecrankie, or wherever they are on holiday, catching [...]
Is this civil rights 2.0?
July 25, 2009 – 10:08 am
India just de-criminalised gay sex. That is a staggering fact, because it affects the sense of sexual freedom of 1 in every 6 human beings. Despite the fact that many of the laws currently being challenged date from colonial occupation, many in India identify this reform with dark forces of westernisation and globalisation rather than [...]
Let's hope we've seen the last of the Tamil Tigers, and of liberal interventionist hypocrisy
May 18, 2009 – 1:43 pm
Today, Sri Lankan authorities declared victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), claiming that Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran was killed while attempting to escape the war zone in an ambulance which crashed. His sons were killed earlier. Prabhakaran had urged the last remaining Tigers to swallow cyanide pills. It appears he neglected to [...]
Manchester's crime industry boosted by ID card decision
May 6, 2009 – 1:44 pm
I won’t rub it in (again) but we predicted (Thus passim) the release of all 12 ‘terror suspects’ arrested and detained without charge for up to two weeks for the alleged ‘Good Friday Plot‘ to blow up Manchester’s Arndale Centre. Liberal politician and human rights lawyer Alex Carlile is conducting an investigation and review into [...]