Desmond Tutu, prayerful priest Desmond Tutu is to withdraw from public life. We’ll be all the poorer without his frenetic energy and thirst for justice Colin Slee guardian.co.uk, Friday 23 July 2010 16.30 BST Article history Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Photograph: Graeme RobertsonArchbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu has announced that, from his 79th birthday in October he is to resign from nearly all of his official commitments and withdraw from public life. He has told his friends he wishes to spend more time in reflection and prayer. The only remarkable element of that desire is that he has spent much of his … Continue reading Tutu – A true Christian

Technology fetishism is skin deep Our shallow obsession with gadgets disguises a conservatism where real change takes place at numbingly slow speed Guy Dammann guardian.co.uk, Saturday 24 July 2010 11.00 BST Article history Ebooks have outsold hardbacks on Amazon, but the ‘catching-on’ process is still taking a while. Photograph: Lucas Jackson / ReutersA milestone has been reached, a Rubicon crossed. With the news, announced on the Guardian’s front page on Wednesday, that ebook sales on Amazon have outstripped hardbacks for the first time, I have decided no longer to pay attention to hi-tech company marketing memos. That means that next … Continue reading Fetishism gadgets!

The Queen should have let Nick Griffin in – he’d have made a fool of himself The idiotic BNP leader is lacking support and mired in infighting. We should not dignify him with preachy exclusion Marina Hyde The Guardian, Saturday 24 July 2010 Article history “Thoroughly un-British!” How typical that in decrying his disinvitation from this week’s Buckingham Palace garden party, Nick Griffin should unwittingly remind us exactly why he should have been there. That the BNP leader should regard excluding people from something as profoundly “un-British” is another one of those cruelly self-parodic flashes that are his speciality – … Continue reading Nick Griffin, death of British Nationalism

National Citizen Service is an unproven vanity project Voluntarism is laudable but Cameron’s enthusiasm for National Citizen Service masks uncertainty as to its structure and purpose Andrew Mycock guardian.co.uk, Saturday 24 July 2010 12.00 BST Article history David Cameron claims the national citizens service is further evidence of the Conservatives’ commitment to a ‘big society’. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/PAThe National Citizen Service (NCS) programme to be rolled out to 10,000 young people next year is, according to David Cameron, further evidence of the Conservatives’ commitment to developing a “big society”. Since becoming party leader, Cameron has maintained a belief in the … Continue reading Voluntarism is good, but must not be enforced by Government

Penis poster exhibitionist hunted by police An exhibitionist who has been posting photographs of his private parts adorned with a yellow ribbon is being hunted by police in the genteel East Sussex town of Lewes. By Alastair Jamieson Published: 8:36AM BST 22 Jul 2010 telegraph.co.uk Officers have seized several large images posted in car parks and close to schools. The A3 and A4-sized posters, in colour and black-and-white versions, show a penis with a yellow bow tied around it. Investigators have interviewed staff at offices close to where the images were found and have taken fingerprints from the posters. One … Continue reading Penis attacks Sussex town!

VIEW: Whither national dignity and self-respect? —Mohammad Jamil From President Obama to Holbrooke, all consider Pakistan as an epicentre of terrorism, but they conveniently forget that the US was also equally responsible for creating the spectre of terrorism, and, therefore, it should share the blame and responsibility and foot the bill for the war on terror Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was partially right when he said, “America has no friends or enemies, only interests.” For one, when the US invades and bombs other countries killing people, it indeed makes many enemies. There are two other exceptions, i.e. Number … Continue reading Whither national dignity and self-respect?