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it is this sort of stuff - such laughable, swivel-eyed, simplistic generalising and long-standing, unannounced interests in his back pocket - that make gun-for-hire Frank Furedi such a tool. there are many reasons why he's a tool, of course, but that's one. still he's not as bad as Manchester...

scary stuff, Vim. strongly agreed wrt your closing thoughts, of course. and tee hee indeed, my MO - that a priori views are clearly bad - often goes out the window when the spiked! crew are mentioned, i'm afraid :o (as Craner would tell you.)

hey, i'm as up for feel-good, self-righteous libertarian arguments attacking good-hearted, if grandstanding, church leaders and New Labourites as much as the next bod :) but it's just i'm not really interested in the overall pose of Furedi, however, or - indeed - the question about what there...

cheers Gavin, nice one. hey, a salad and one of these, good to go.. ...

it's one thing to spin the facts but please don't cod psychologise about everyone else off the basis of a few infantile earth firsters, hair-shirt leftists, Johann Hari or whoever. BTW Frank Furedi is notorious wrt climate change. he and that whole U of Kent, Canterbury/Institute of...

the Canadians often refer to their salad bowl, don't they? (compared w the American melting pot.) though tbh i don't know what real differences there are in 'integrating' immigrants between the two neighbours, it may just be a case of boosterism/deliberate Canuck line-drawing from those above...

indeed. though unfortunately the most urgent - and therefore important - part of his analysis is (clearly, the idea of a new hybrid of mosque design is exciting from architectural and progressive, cross-cultural pollination view-points)

somebody has been good enough to do a little digging around the prats that came out w this garbage: here

yup, good point. see also the way that zoning laws have historically evolved to mean that poorer communities are quite literally frozen where they are, and all the knock on effects this has for area schooling etc, and the economic health of that community etc. i have been told about certain...

i certainly applaud this pair going for it - Broadway, Sydney

gotcha. wrt Melbourne public transport, Angus G namechecks you and i Luka (!) in this old post here, btw (where i ask a stupid question, quelle surprise) in a pleasant surprise when i first went there (this says everything about my stupid preconceptions about a car culture, and nothing about...

? very poor

even right-wing Tory poster boy and all round general anti-NHS loon Daniel Hannan is capable of calling this one like he sees it (if you do decide to wade through the comments thread, you may wish to pack a clothes peg)

i'm deffo hitting the National Gallery of Victoria when i go to Melbourne, i'll leave the tawdryness for Sydney then i gather Adelaide is good for Ethiopian food, can you comment on Sydney, L? i remember Zhao and i being impressed w tales of Sydney's Chinatown you had in one thread top street...

Vienna, Paris and the BNP appear to still think this map is relevant

ah, in that case he had better update his list from Boston, MA to Boston, Lincs.

70 million Muslim Turks as that utter cunt, Patrick O'Flynn from the Daily Express, once screamed

i'd like to think Oliver wants to visit Boston inspired by my taqueria email report to him earlier this year or last year. Portland as mentioned has great food and drink and a generally interesting vibe, interesting historical buildings etc, not to mention Powell's. (bigger even than Foyles!!)...

i am always confuzzled when i see those signs - it's clearly a right load of cobblers