Archive for the 'international' Category
Help raise funds for Haiti – add a link to your blog
Yazan: Sara | 15 January 2010 | 1 Comment
Categories: blogs, charities, international
Eagle eyed visitors may notice that I have placed a clickable link for the DEC Haiti appeal on my sidebar. If you would like to add this to your blog, the code is: <a href=”http://www.dec.org.uk/item/200″><img src=”http://www.dec.org.uk/download/726/injured-boy-medium.jpg” border=”0″ /></a>
Drugs and the death penalty: a non-wailing liberal speaks
Yazan: Sara | 30 December 2009 | 3 Comments
Categories: criminal justice, drugs, international
I’ve blogged previously on the insane nature of the UK’s drugs laws; laws that can criminalise people who have done no harm to anyone but themselves and which serve to exacerbate the problem they allegedly seek to prevent. The problems caused by ‘illegal’ drugs are almost entirely caused by their very illegality, rather than their pharmacological [...]
Cameron's new plan: International aid by phone vote and quango
Yazan: sarabedford | 13 July 2009 | 2 Comments
Categories: international
I have learned by now to take anything that David Cameron says with a pinch of salt. His comments appear to be either a dog whistle aimed at appealing to the Tory faithful and/or Middle England, or they are an echo of Nick Clegg’s comments where they have received apparent public support. But even he [...]
One household bill that I feel blessed to receive
Yazan: sarabedford | 19 March 2009 | No Comments
Categories: charities, international
Yesterday our water bill arrived from Three Valleys Water for 2009/10. It’s gone up by almost exactly £12, or 4%. In these cash-strapped, credit-crunched times, you might expect me to be cross about an inflation-busting increase. But I can’t help but feel I’m getting a bargain. Of all the many bills we pay, I don’t [...]
Let them eat caviar – Mugabe's weapons of mass destruction
Yazan: sarabedford | 10 February 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: international
It seems that the Zimbabwe government has even less understanding of the word ‘restraint’ than Western bankers. Reports today of the celebrations being planned for Robert Mugabe’s 85th birthday are enough to sicken even those used to his obscene ways. Mugabe’s henchmen have been soliciting ‘donations’ for the party of the year – OK probably the [...]
