Tag: Gandhi
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I woke up on cue
On World Beard Day, I appropriately saw the very follically blessed Epic Beard Men tonight (Sage Francis and B Dolan) on the last night of their world tour, and they were, well epic. The audience was quite beardy & bearish too, but also a mix of ages. Several highlights – 2Bad, You Can’t Win, Sage…
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Pepe Julian Onziema is my new hero
The Pride recently it’s easy to focus just on the good happy side of the LGBTQ family, but outside the West the situation is far from the party it usually ends up being. I love that John Oliver started like that, then went into describing the mess than the British and US have made in…
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iSweatshop – Not giving everyone a bite of the Apple?
Got an iPod? You’ve got to check this out: Following the expose of Foxxconn in China, who assemble Apple’s Nanos and iPods, Apple now say they are looking into the claims of sweatshops, workers having to work 15 hour days, and forced overtime. Very embarassing for Apple, who tries so hard to seem like a…
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Downing Street Memo – why the silence?
I think for us in the UK the whole WMC/Iraq thing blew up several years ago with the David Kelly affair, a stain on Blair’s government still which I doubt will wash away anytime soon in the minds of people, but we’re used to the fact we were lied to – not happy with it,…