Cruise ships in Haiti and misdirected moral outrage

Today’s Guardian seemed very keen that we be morally outraged that wealthy tourists are visiting earthquake-stricken Haiti in cruise ships. The precise justification for this disgust, however, isn’t really very clear. I’m happy to concede that one thing highlighted in the story – the fact that the Labadee resort where the Independence of the Seas [...]

Update on The Guardian/Trafigura: We Win!

Victory! The injunction’s been lifted, and the Guardian is allowed to report the Parliamentary question for itself. Good fucking work everyone.

What The Guardian’s Banned From Telling You

Earlier this evening The Guardian was served with a gagging order forbidding it from reporting parliamentary business. To quote the article in the paper itself:
Today’s published Commons order papers contain a question to be answered by a minister later this week. The Guardian is prevented from identifying the MP who has asked the question, what [...]

Networking and Social Mobility

You know that you’re a bit behind the times when you’re blogging about an article that was published almost a month ago, but I’ve been busy recently, and was so incensed by this nasty little article I feel I should write something. On July 11 the Guardian Graduate section put out a piece about networking [...]