Resurrecting Yugoslavia

In a recent article Julia Gorin writes:
Western powers led by the United States went to great lengths to abolish a pluralistic society called Yugoslavia, encouraging its component ethnicities to assert their identities and vie for their own little slice of land based on those separate identities.Yet as soon as one of those separate identities that [...]

Tshwane sunset

Leaving the house to take my son to the theatre, this is what I saw looking down the street.

Tony Blair’s legacy — war and ethnic cleansing

Remember when Tony Blair joined in the war on Yugoslavia, allegedly to stop ehnic cleansing?
That was in 1999.
In 2000 his government were applying for an Order in Council to neutralise a court order that people ethnically cleansed (or “sanitized”, as the US puts it) by the British government should be allowed to return to their [...]

Paris Hilton tops the tag cloud again

I see Paris Hilton has topped the tag cloud at Amatomu again, at least in the Life section, displacing Patricia de Lille and David Bullard. And what’s wrong with Tshwane Sheraton?
I wonder how Amatomu derives tags from blog posts. In my other blog I wrote about silly phrases like “I feel your hurt”, and gave [...]