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How much does it cost to get waterboarded?
So Christopher Hitchens got waterboarded for Vanity Fair. You can watch the video here and read his thoughtful article about the experience here. Conclusion - it's torture, but I kinda hoped everybody knew that already. But there seems to be a some bizarre little side industry in waterboarding... Read more...
Published 1 day ago

“Inside Egypt” John R. Bradley.
“Inside Egypt” by John R. Bradley.It’s too long since I’ve done a book review so I think I should mention John Bradley’s “Inside Egypt: the land of the Pharaohs on the brink of revolution”. I saw it sitting on a colleagues desk and asked if I could read, “yes” was the reply,... Read more...
Published 2 days ago

"Troofers" - David Shayler has gone nuts
"Troofers" - those who think 9/11 was a massive plot - they're an odd bunch aren't they? I think it is like a new form of spiritualism or ghost hunting - except for the oddly dull "troof" that they seek. Instead of being interested in what really produced 9/11: massive global trends of immense... Read more...
Published 2 days ago

How to look your best whilst cycling to work
Questions non-climber won't give a shit about: should you place your own quickdraws on a redpoint? If you fall off and pull your ropes, should you strip the gear as well? And if you do so, have you then blown the ground up? These are things that 99.9% of the population really don't care about.... Read more...
Published 1 week ago

This message is brought to you by the Helsinki tourist board
Welcome to Helsinki!Note the carefully still-upright bottle of "Kossu". 11.30 am in the market square, the busiest tourist area of Helsinki. We checked he was OK, as did numerous other passers-by, so there is no "oh the poor marginalised and alienated! Left alone on society's fringes!" here.... Read more...
Published 1 week ago

Helsinki gets much bigger?
A screen grab, because I'm sure they'll notice the cock-up eventually. Click to go through to the story.It would appear so - because according to the national broadcaster YLE - see above - the Porsche factory in Uusikaupunki is in Helsinki! Last time I looked Uusikaupunki was about 300 kms from... Read more...
Published 1 week ago

Is a reckoning coming?
Very interesting news that the Helsinki Administrative Court has told the Finnish Security Police that they have to release the 'Stasi list' - a list recovered by, if I remember the order correctly, the CIA at the collapse of East Germany from the Stasi records. The list is of Finns who had... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

How to count terrorists
I was googling to see if I could find a free copy of an article in the most recent Democracy: a Journal of Ideas that I want to read. So far no luck, but Google did find me Jon Stewart instead. Stewart is probably more amusing, if a little less informative.Yep, I know it's a year old but I'm sure... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

When Presbyterians meet Shi'a
The title of this post is only to see if I can generate interesting traffic from strange Google searches. Anyway today it has been raining hard and gray all day - thoroughly miserable, so the following exchange on UKclimbing greatly brightened my day. How we got to this exchange isn't really... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

Retro-ice
Just because Donald asked and karma goes around, a magazine article from a long, long time ago when men were men (and they were virtually all men) and winters were mean and long. Click the on my photos below and you might just be able to read the text in the bigger versions if you squint as guess... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

Foreign Ministers Jogging
(Look for the blond dude in the white 'Finland' top and blue bottoms)Word on the (foreign policy analysis) street (of downtown Helsinki), is that Finland's newish foreign minister is good sort; very sharp, friendly and unpretentious, hard working and ambitious. But he is not camera shy! So when... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

Truckers: uniformly stupid or just led by idiots?
(image: YLE) So Finnish truckers intend to spoil all travelling Finns' holiday weekend by driving at 20 kmph on the motorways leading out of and around Helsinki to protest high fuel prices. And this will prove what exactly? That they're idiots mainly. The oil market isn't going to give a shit one... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago