Benjamin Gray: Archive

Research just raised a chilling question: if Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren’t nuked, would we...

Mar 3rd

All flyering done, in record time. Bring on the Dress!

Mar 3rd

Have handed out more fliers than the trots so far, and mine are for comic opera.

Mar 3rd

Some wierd non-alcoholic substance is falling out of the sky. Filth.

Mar 2nd

Quoted in London Student once more. Now officially a rent-a-quote boy. This time it’s online....

Mar 2nd

Time for tech.

Mar 2nd

ITV currently doing news item entitled “Report Finds Bears Defecate in Woods”

Mar 2nd

First bunch of papers done. Got the parameters sorted. Now to trawl through the in-depth stuff.

Mar 2nd

I repeat: see THE SORCERER at the Greenwood Theatre this week, 4th to the 6th. Starts at 7pm. You...

Mar 2nd

“Harriet Harman Launches Campaign Against Rule of Law”.

Mar 2nd

You should go to see THE SORCERER at the Greenwood Theatre this week. 4th to the 6th, 7pm. You get...

Mar 2nd

Bugger. On show week mentality. Automatic early mornings it is.

Mar 2nd

The only people to blame over Sir Fred’s pension are the government. Everything else is fluff...

Mar 1st

http://twitpic.com/1s9w2 - Hammersmith Bridge at sunset.

Mar 1st

Welcome @aaronporter to Twitter. Good to see more of the NUS using this highly productive medium...

Mar 1st

I need to take my camera with me more often. Excellent series of sunset shots had to be taken on BB....

Mar 1st

At the band rehearsal. Show sounds amazing. Very excited.

Mar 1st

Got into the pages of London Student again. Page 4 this time. Media tart I am.

Mar 1st

“FKATWOT” is silly. Just call it “The War on Terrorism”. Else rename the...

Feb 28th

Cries of “police state”, though fashionable, actually cheapen the genuine debates on...

Feb 28th

Batten down the hatches, shift up a gear and crack on.

Feb 27th

Boycotting RBS = Run on the Bank = We’re all Fucked. Don’t Do It!

Feb 26th

watching “Margaret” like any good politico-geek.

Feb 26th

Free Education = Cuts

Feb 26th

Feeling much more positive about the dissertation. Things falling into place. Actually providing...

Feb 26th

Conclusion of today’s seminar: force is a language that is sometimes necessary in the face of...

Feb 26th

Interesting Fact of the Day: al-Qaeda oppose Hamas’ rocket attacks on Southern Israel. Strange...

Feb 26th

Thoughts and sympathies are with Mr. Cameron and his family at this time. May God give you strength...

Feb 25th

Limitations are our best guarantee against mediocrity.

Feb 25th

FKATWOT http://viigo.im/1Eo

Feb 25th

The other depressing thing about the MMR-Autism pseudoscience is the automatic negative connotations...

Feb 24th

Totalitarianism is the first sign of a flawed idea.

Feb 24th

Grammar/punctuation question: can you use an ellipsis to re-order a sentence?

Feb 24th

Support Cerrie Burnell; parents have been complaining to the BBC because she looks a bit different...

Feb 24th

Islamists are sometimes Pythonesque: Jamaat-e-Islami, Jemaah Islamiyah and Jamaat Islamiyah are...

Feb 24th

Does the environment of the Internet lower the threshold of social and moral constraints? Answers on...

Feb 24th

The normalisation of evil (no pun intended) http://viigo.im/0XD

Feb 23rd

Hitting hard doesn’t always produce a hydra-esque response of anger http://viigo.im/0XA

Feb 23rd

The bandwagon slamming Twitter forget that it’s just a medium. It’s like complaining...

Feb 23rd

Now trawling through legislation.

Feb 23rd

Trawling through MI5’s website. Surprisingly interesting.

Feb 23rd

Saw an interesting debate on TV in hospital today about political Islam. Had the full spectrum of...

Feb 22nd

Jade Goody has turned to God http://viigo.im/0AI

Feb 21st

Abu Muqawama Declares Jihad on Google Earth http://viigo.im/0rW

Feb 21st

The Onion takes on the Middle East http://viigo.im/0rT

Feb 21st

Margaret Thatcher: Climate Change Pioneer? http://viigo.im/0rS

Feb 21st

The London Declaration on Combating Antisemitism http://viigo.im/0rR

Feb 21st

If Caryl Churchill only wants to criticise Israeli policy, why is her agitprop called “Seven...

Feb 18th

Howard Jacobson http://viigo.im/uR

Feb 18th

The ignorance of crowds http://viigo.im/qM

Feb 18th

The Islamic Republic: Thirty Years On: Part 3 http://viigo.im/5d9

Feb 16th

Great. The article I’ve just been reading and following up for the last half-hour turns out to...

Feb 16th

Argh! Have I got the time to attend the NEC hustings next month?

Feb 16th

Why can’t Twitter let me follow people from the mobile version? I’ve sworn off using the...

Feb 16th

Financial Regulation - enforcement not new policy http://viigo.im/57z

Feb 16th

Bosnia: a birthplace http://viigo.im/57u

Feb 16th

Towards a police state http://viigo.im/54h

Feb 15th

Welcome to everyone who’s started following me on Twitter today.

Feb 15th

Winner of the week: Geert Wilders, for getting his repellent views known thanks to...

Feb 15th

Loser of the week: Keith Vaz MP, for his appalling performance on Newsnight and his “ooh Boris...

Feb 15th

Relaxing at home and probably time for an early night.

Feb 15th

Suspended

Feb 15th

New Post: Suspended http://tinyurl.com/acjuod

Feb 15th

Think blogging will have to fall by the wayside again as dissertation deadlines loom.

Feb 15th

“Threat to public policy”? You could ban any opposition party for that.

Feb 15th

Salman Rushdie and ‘The Satanic Verses’ – 20 years after the fatwa http://viigo.im/4ZX

Feb 15th

The power of stereotypes http://viigo.im/4ZB

Feb 15th

Muslim Brotherhood Leaders Hold Hamas Festival In London Today: Why didn’t the govt deny THEM...

Feb 15th

Derek Draper’s antics are an insult to the honour of long-haired bloggers. We should gang up...

Feb 15th

On responsible and irresponsible criticism of the Qur’an http://viigo.im/4Yd

Feb 15th

Blaming the victim http://viigo.im/4Yc

Feb 15th

Watching Iolanthe. Back then Peers knew how to behave themselves. Badly.

Feb 14th

http://twitpic.com/1hfjw - Residual Snow

Feb 14th

Saying you can know a religion entirely from its scripture is like saying you can know all of...

Feb 14th

Lovely blue sky today, and even seen some residual snow.

Feb 14th

Why I voted against privatisation of the Royal Mail http://viigo.im/4Q5

Feb 14th

Free Speech and Moral Cowardice http://viigo.im/4Q3

Feb 14th

Niall Ferguson: Bring on the debt jubilee! http://viigo.im/4PV

Feb 14th

New Post: NUS Elections http://tinyurl.com/dxgyxe

Feb 14th

NUS Elections

Feb 14th

Will You Defend Jews? http://viigo.im/4Pq

Feb 14th

I do seem to win the Spanish lottery a lot. Which is odd, as I don’t remember ever buying a...

Feb 13th

Universities and Colleges need to stop appeasing campus extremism.

Feb 13th

Nick Cohen: We are all Jews now: http://snurl.com/bt9vp

Feb 13th

Watching Question Time: rather depressing that none of the panel had watched Fitna yet saw fit to...

Feb 13th

Democracy versus the all-seeing eye http://viigo.im/4yD

Feb 12th

Echoes of ‘The Satanic Verses’ http://viigo.im/4xe

Feb 12th

Snowing once more.

Feb 12th

Banning Extremists http://viigo.im/4r7

Feb 12th

My blog’s getting spammed once more. Must be doing something right.

Feb 11th

Blog: They Can’t be Maths Students http://tinyurl.com/aarn86

Feb 11th

They Can’t be Maths Students

Feb 11th

Campaign website launched: http://www.benjamin4block.com

Feb 11th

School assemblies row - what the BBC didn’t tell you http://viigo.im/43m

Feb 11th

School assemblies row - what the BBC didn’t tell you http://viigo.im/43l

Feb 11th

Blog: More on MMR Moonbattery http://tinyurl.com/bcxj73

Feb 10th

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