Comments on Five Chinese Crackers: More on riots, moral panic and black people

Hi, I cannot see a "contact me" link, s...

2011-08-20T11:06:25.066+01:00

Hi,

I cannot see a "contact me" link, so I am posting a message here for you, so that maybe you can review this article:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2027190/Nazish-Noorani-sent-text-predicting-murder-husband-Kashif-Pervaiz.html

Basically, from what it seems to me, this was a (horrible) love triangle murder. Yet the deadline says:

'Freedom is just around the corner': Chilling texts sent between husband of murdered Muslim woman and alleged lover and gunwoman

And then the article mentions she was Muslim four more times. I think this is Islamophobic as this murder had nothing to do with religion. I mean, if the fact they were Muslim was mentioned when describing that they had been going out for a walk after breaking their Ramadhan fast, then fair play - but to mention it in the headline and then to mention it again in the article when it has no bearing on the story seems like Islamophobia to me.

On Language Log, The linguist Geoff Pullum has als...

2011-08-19T16:15:02.858+01:00

On Language Log, The linguist Geoff Pullum has also commented on the absurdity of Starkey's guff about Jamaican 'patois'.
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3365>

http://earlywarn.blogspot.com/2011/08/government-a...

2011-08-18T17:27:11.561+01:00

http://earlywarn.blogspot.com/2011/08/government-austerity-and-political.html

Odd. Mashing together Jamaican Patois, Indian Engl...

2011-08-17T17:51:15.275+01:00

Odd. Mashing together Jamaican Patois, Indian English, Cockney and Yankinese - it's pretty much how creole's happen. Maybe Starkey was almost slightly right by accident.

"I still kept replacing patios with patios&qu...

2011-08-17T15:16:35.680+01:00

"I still kept replacing patios with patios"

*giggle*

Still, excellent articles, keep them up!

Did you deliberately keep typing 'patois&#...

2011-08-17T15:07:42.445+01:00
Did you deliberately keep typing 'patois' as 'patios'? I hope so, it made me laugh.

Gah! No! My fingers keep farting when I try to type that word. Even going back to correct it just now, I still kept replacing patios with patios.

Thanks for loving the site. Look around the sites in the links on the right for more people not gurning at the EU and thinking we're the brilliantest at everything.

Did you deliberately keep typing 'patois' ...

2011-08-17T15:03:28.914+01:00
Did you deliberately keep typing 'patois' as 'patios'? I hope so, it made me laugh.

Love your site. It gives me hope that there are still enough people out there to prevent the current government's plans to turn the UK into the laughably embarrassing backwater of Europe.

We are behind so many countries on so many levels (politics, education, infrastructure, media, technology, ethics, justice, care, etc.) it's embarrassing, and yet somehow we have the gall to point and laugh at others.