January 2009
2 posts
Bush's Farewall Salute
… Roll on the 44th. Has everybody bought their appropriately ironically intelligent T-shirts yet?
No Ordinary Mugshots
I’d not come across this particular chapter of desegregation prior to tonight, but the bloody and prolonged Freedom Ride protests that eventually helped rise to the American Civil Rights Movement are a moving and fascinating chapter in Western history. I’m British, so we have our own little piece of history (and we rightly celebrate Black History Month every year as a small, ongoing...