Archive for the ‘News & info’ Category

beef recall - but most of it’s been eaten?

Monday, February 18th, 2008

another weekend draws to a close - how quickly time vanishes. Another week ahead! Looking through some of these news items, shudder - this sort of thing makes me glad my life is meat-free these days ( well as much as possible, i had a job and a half avoiding ...

New Look

Friday, February 8th, 2008

Past Present Future is getting a much needed facelift..please bear with me! I have also updated my profile page.

Join the London Pro-choice protest tonight!

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

I thought this was worth flagging up and publicizing: from the F word: "A quick reminder to London readers: Abortion Rights is calling for people to come out in force this evening, for a protest against efforts to restrict access to abortion. This is a protest against Ann Widdecome’s ‘Not on your ...

Some more books

Monday, November 5th, 2007

Some books i have been reading lately: Agatha Christie: An english mystery - Laura Thompson (2007) A biography of my favourite author so I read this with great interest: it's a good complement to agatha's own writings about her life ( she published two sets of autobiographical writings) - and goes ...

Alan Johnston is released!

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

Gaza: Brilliant wonderful news - BBC reporter Alan Johnston has been finally released, after much worry and an agonising, 114 days in captivity. Read all about it on the BBC and the Guardian What will be interesting to see as we get more information - is what role Hamas have played in this ...

War Child UK Gala Event : Those were the Days

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

(via the brilliant UnitedDiversity blog) One child dies every three minutes because of armed conflict. Children should never be affected by war. Full stop. "Immodesty Blaize the famous burlesque dancer is headlining the first ever War Child UK fundraising ball this summer. Come and join in the fun at Koko's club, Camden ...

Cyberwar?!

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

Very strange goings-on. 'Russia' is apparently 'cyber-warring' 'Estonia'! The Loose Wire writes that Russian hackers have been carrying out denial of service (DDos) attacks on Estonian websites. The Insights Blog gives us a bit of ..insight!..into the Estonian/Russian background and tensions. The BBC says Estonia wants to stick this at the top of ...

No to Military Rule and no to media censorship!

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

well after all that drama, tasneem was released around 24 hours of his arrest...thank goodness! questions still remain unanswered and clearly it was a close shave..will the next journalist/critic of power be so lucky? the whole issue of media censorship can't be ignored and the big thing of course is ...

Drawings by Frederic, Lord Leighton (1830-1896)

Sunday, March 11th, 2007

The Leighton Drawings Project aimed to catalogue, conserve, photograph and exhibit the collection of almost 700 drawings by Frederic Leighton at Leighton House Museum. It was carried out between 2005 and 2007 with the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund, and can be accessed, along with a database of ...

Iranian Women Activists Jailed

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

Urgent human rights alert from the Women's Learning Partnership: "Thirty-four of our colleagues and partners in the Iranian women's movement were arrested on Sunday, March 4 outside of Tehran's Revolutionary Court. They were staging a peaceful protest against the increasing government pressure on civil society activists and, in particular, the ...