The University of Michigan Press has dropped its relationship with Pluto Press. Supposedly, it is about Pluto Press publishing anti-Zionist tracts. Maybe, but although Pluto Press has a lot of those, it is a source of other curiosities that might make normal people blanch. My favorite is The Battle for China’s Past, by Mobo Gao, a paean to the poor misunderstood Chairman Mao.
Nelson Mandela is in Ireland, to get an honorary degree from the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG), and to open the Special Olympics games. ...
The Washington Post has a piece on a Pew report on people using the net, with this misleading bit. In a report Sunday, the Pew ...
In the latest round of the press in the tank for Obama, we get the Chicago Tribune's John Kass's neat summary of the press approach ...
You have to read it regularly to know just how bad the Irish press is. The Irish Times is subscription only, and really not worth ...
The world seems to be awash with good news. There is of course the huge entertainment value of discovering that yet another Obama associate is ...
Polly Toynbee, the Guardian columnist, once again is keen to ensure that the government makes the press report things her way. If the Press Complaints ...
David Aaronovitch, a self-confessed red diaper baby, is an incessant left-wing critic of the Bush administration who reguarly writes for the left-wing British press, primarily ...