Witnessing and Exploitation in Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields

by Elliot Adams Many broadcasters are using the summer evening slow hours to drop some emotion bait for the September-November documentary award-season. Long-running documentary series are wheeling out their larger set-pieces for this year, as This World did with their excellent ‘The Invasion of Lampedusa’. There have also been suitably emotional and shocking standalone efforts, like Terry Pratchett [...]

Death of Brian Haw

By Elliot Adams Brian Haw is dead. This is not an obituary though, unless the circumstances of death are extraordinary, I don’t see the point of giving strangers’ deaths undue attention – no one’s life becomes more interesting after their leaving it and no one dies before their time, to me that’s what ‘their time’ [...]

PR & Journalism: The Buddy Cop Movie

By Elliot ‘Theodore-Rex’ Adams I’ve got a buddy cop movie pitch for you. As for setting, any generic not-quite-noir city will do – what’s import is our lead characters, PR and Journalism. Yes that’s right children, it’s time to crowbar in an overworked metaphor! One of them an uptight manipulator who will do and say [...]

Preventing Terrorism With Petit-Fascist Distractions?

By Elliot Adams I’m unsettled by the shift in purpose in the governments counter-terrorism measures. I was rather hoping this would be one of the issues where the Lib-Dem part of the coalition won out over the Tories. Unfortunately, in the run up to last week’s release of the government’s updated Prevent counter-terrorism strategy there [...]

What Your Email Address Says About You

by Elliot Adams It says absolutely bugger-all, contrary to popular belief it is just an email address. Your handwriting says nothing more about you than how you hold your pen and how you have learnt to scratch out your rudimentary mark on pieces of paper with an inkstick. Your preference for the colour red doesn’t [...]

Universities “complacent on Toryism” Islamic Extremists Warn

By Elliot Atherton-Adams 1st Earl of Edinburgh Extremist Islamic group,  Harkat-ul-Jehad, have accused top British Universities of complacency in dealing with people openly preaching the kind of extremist views one would normally expect to hear from the Conservative party. These Universities they warn, have become a training ground for Tory extremist groups. Hafiz Saeed from [...]

100 Apologies on Twitter in Malaysia Defamation Case

Malaysian courts have given a modern take on being forced to repeatedly chalk up your misdemeanors on the classroom blackboard, Bart Simpson stylee. Fahmi Fadzil  has been ordered to apologize 100 times on Twitter, after tweeting to his mates that a pregnant friend of his wasn’t being treated particularly well by her employer – Female [...]