Category Archives: World issues

Christians and today’s US election

I’ve debated about whether or not to post this… but I lose my chance in just over 12 hours, and given that it’s the most important election of the year, I have to put some sort of comment into the blogosphere. So here goes. Today, Americans go to vote for the person to fill the [...]

Looking back on 2007

On the morning of New Year’s Eve James Scott and I presented the Inaugural 1WAY FM Breakfast Show New Year’s Eve Spectacular Extravaganza 2007. It was a look back at the news, sport, movies, technology and deaths of 2007 – here are some of the highlights (apologies for the quality!). [Audio clip: view full post [...]

Benazir Bhutto & David Hicks

I was looking through my e-mails yesterday morning and saw a CNN news alert where Larry King was discussing former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s assassination – and I thought, hmm, they missed the word ‘attempted’ there. But low and behold, after some digging below the Christmas and holiday news at the headlines of the [...]

Google’s censoring in China

Just a quick one – a good example of the level of censoring that has to be applied in China: http://images.google.com/images?q=tiananmen http://images.google.cn/images?q=tiananmen Quite… sad.