Blog Entries by Peter Blair from 08/2011

What Norway Should Teach the Media About Covering Terrorism

| Posted 08.10.2011 | UK

I wasn't alone on July 22nd in thinking that the attacks in Oslo and Utoya bore few of the hallmarks of Al Qaeda, but it certainly didn't seem that way to anyone watching rolling news coverage of the events unfolding in Norway.

Riots Are the Symptom, Not the Disease

| Posted 08.12.2011 | UK

Over the past decade Britain has become a more and more individualistic society to the point where I'm not sure what being British means any more.

Famine? What Famine?

| Posted 08.17.2011 | UK

Somehow a disaster affecting 11 million people is being ignored and the longer it takes for policymakers to act, the more people will die. That isn't hard to understand at all.

Getting it Right After Gaddafi

| Posted 08.22.2011 | World

Given the hierarchical authoritarianism of the Gaddafi government I hope that the NTC will consider working with the civil servants who only worked for his repressive regime because there was no other option.