Author Archives: Tim Ireland
About Tim Ireland
Tim is the sole author of Bloggerheads.Did anyone else just hear the sound of a tightening screw?
The New Yorker – The Senate Does the Right Thing: Late last night, to the amazement of refugee advocates, the Senate approved by unanimous consent an amendment by Senator Kennedy to a defense bill that will make it easier for … Continue reading
Greetings, comrades
Bloggerheads is back online, but I suspect that most of the action will take place here for a few more days at least. If you miss the old ‘obsessions’, here’s some local news of (online) poll-rigging and the immediate reaction … Continue reading
The Andrew Meyer Tasering incident
BBC – Stun gun used during Kerry debate: University of Florida police used a stun gun on a student taking part in a forum with former presidential candidate John Kerry. Andrew Meyer was questioning Senator Kerry on why he did … Continue reading
The BBC: records (broken and otherwise)
CiF: Sunny Hundal – Liberals: abandon the BBC: The bloggers and much of the press won’t be happy until the BBC reflects their worldview without accepting that the whole picture may lie somewhere in the middle, despite their continual hypocrisy. … Continue reading
Fighting terror by murdering civilians
Independent – Iraq tells US security company to leave after civilian deaths: The Iraqi government has ordered the American private security contractor Blackwater, which provides protection for US officials in the country, to shut down its operations after its guards … Continue reading
Jerry Springer: The Opera! to play in Carnegie Hall
John Redwood’s cackhanded approach to comments
A quick blogging quiz for you: What’s wrong with this picture? (Apart from the rather obvious fact that he doesn’t actually answer my question.)
More bodies in Basra
Times – Dragged to death for helping the British: A man said to have been an interpreter for the British Army in Basra has been killed by militia gunmen on the very day that his wife learnt she was pregnant … Continue reading
Bigoted Brits big it up for the Biased BBC weblog
I remember the good old days when the pathetic Biased BBC blog struggled for oxygen and the best they could hope for was some attention from Michelle Malkin, Instapundit and similar sources of right-wing ‘balance’ in the U.S. Sadly, those … Continue reading
“Get out or die”
Times – Get out or die, security force chief tells interpreters for British Army: Iraqi interpreters working for the British Army have been advised to leave Basra or be killed. The warning was issued by a leading member of the … Continue reading