Posts Tagged ‘human rights’

六四 + 20

31, May 2009

When I took this photo in Tiananmen Square, Beijing in 2005 I had no idea that it was a day or so before the anniversary of the June Fourth Incident, otherwise known as the Tiananmen Square massacre. So it was confusing that as the late afternoon sun shone down, tourists milled about and locals flew [...]

Cheap ketchup and sleepwalking

13, Oct 2008

Someone back in 2001 famously said, in the aftermath of the 9/11 attack on New York, that it was “a good day to bury bad news”. She has rightly disappeared into obscurity. Anyway, with all the ridiculous end-of-the-world saying around the financial crisis, it’s a good time to remember that there is other stuff going [...]


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