Look After Yourself (and Take Care Too) *updated

Jamie Oliver had an interesting experience recently, according to a short blog posted on the Guardian website. I don’t doubt that the few words posted fail to tell the whole story, but in brief, Oliver was surprised to be rebuffed by residents of a US state who resented his approach to them to proffer healthy [...]

What’s Your Problem?

An interesting column from the Guardian last weekend asks What’s Your Problem?, and suggests that we live in a culture which reinforces the idea of having an issue or a disorder, and doesn’t stop to consider whether or not we really do. There’s a danger of falling into paradox here, as in my experience the [...]

BBC + BNP = OK?

The growing controversy around the BBC’s invitation for British National Party leader Nick Griffin to appear on its Question Time politics forum programme this evening has many interesting angles. Essentially boiling down to people’s right to free speech, I’m interested in the assumptions that are being made about the capacities of the people involved (including [...]