There is a simplistic way to read this renaissance of an ancient tradition. The truth is very much more interesting
When I was a young child, China was, for me, a vaguely comical Chinaman with a wispy moustache, dressed in an embroidered silk robe and conical hat, exclaiming in a funny accent: “Confucius, he say …” [...]
The IPCC response to Ian Tomlinson\’s death shows how it has tilted towards the forces it is supposed to monitor
Last month the Labour MP Austin Mitchell asked Jane Furniss, the head of the Independent Police Complaints Commission, whether her resources were so stretched that it was necessary to “redeploy staff from support activities such as [...]
The flowering inverse surveillance society can end the myth of faultless policing that survived 1,000 deaths in custody
Who watches the watchmen? Or, to translate Juvenal another way: who polices the police? The answer this week was a New York fund manager, of all unlikely superheroes, who provided the Guardian with key footage of the minutes [...]
The novelist María del Socorro (“Corín”) Tellado López was the world\’s most prolific female writer in the Spanish language. She produced more than 4,000 titles, at a rate of 60 a year, the last one just days before her death. With international sales of 400 million, her books were translated into 27 languages and she [...]
In Afghanistan, US finds itself lost in translation as military …Medill Reports, DCAt NATO’s headquarters, where every Dari and Pashto interpreter and translator was an Afghan, the language barrier affected the translation of highly technical military information. “Even if they have very, very good English skills, they may not have …
Language firm doubles downtown office spaceBizjournals.com, NCVocaLink Language Services, a translation and interpretation organization, is moving from its offices across from Sinclair Community College and doubling its footprint with 4000 square feet on West First Street. The city of Dayton is providing $40000 …
Geithner Reaches New Incompetence LevelFOXNewsIn our edition of Liberal Translation, I think it's safe to say that Robert Gibbs may have met his match. At Wednesday morning's press briefing in Turkey, Gibbs was joined by White House senior adviser David Axelrod, whose performance wasn't exactly …
Speereo Voice Translator Multilanguage for WM Touchscreen 4.0ZDNet.de, GermanySpeereo Voice translator is available in two versions: multilanguage and two language. Multilanguage version of Speereo Voice Translator for business communication and traveling, running on smartphones and Pocket PCs, is an innovative phrasebook that …
The experience of small islands can teach us a lot about living good lives at low environmental cost
\’A man who falls from a 100-storey building will survive the first 99 storeys unscathed,” wrote the economist EJ Mishan in response to critics of his attack on the costs of economic growth. It was the 1960s and [...]
This scurrilous Red Rag couldn\’t have held a candle to its Seventies feminist predecessor
• Out of the shoddy little New Labour email “smeargate” scandal, it has emerged that there were plans to run a scurrilous website to be called Red Rag, with the aim of exposing Tory hypocrisy. They have no history, of course, these [...]
There is a simplistic way to read this renaissance of an ancient tradition. The truth is very much more interesting
When I was a young child, China was, for me, a vaguely comical Chinaman with a wispy moustache, dressed in an embroidered silk robe and conical hat, exclaiming in a funny accent: “Confucius, he say …” [...]
Cyber-sludge swirls around the blogosphere, but the government can\’t afford to get dirty
It should come as little surprise that some of Gordon Brown\’s closest aides have been swapping embarrassing stories about senior Conservatives, including David Cameron. It\’s what political hacks do. Gossip of this kind swirls around Labour, Tory and Liberal Democrat offices constantly. The [...]
The IPCC response to Ian Tomlinson\’s death shows how it has tilted towards the forces it is supposed to monitor
Last month the Labour MP Austin Mitchell asked Jane Furniss, the head of the Independent Police Complaints Commission, whether her resources were so stretched that it was necessary to “redeploy staff from support activities such as [...]
You need plenty of police medics at a mass demo. But they really should stick to the day job
One of the intriguing aspects of the G20 demonstrations was the presence of so many police medics, notable by the badges stating their qualification. One was spotted by a protester in Queen Victoria Street making liberal use [...]
Islamabad is desperate for support in its civil war against the Taliban – it needs help from India
It is “the most dangerous place in the world”, according to Barack Obama. It\’s also where 90% of our own home-front terrorist threat comes from, according to Gordon Brown. Forget scratched heads and reddening faces over Manchester\’s [...]
The Tomlinson scandal and Quick affair highlight crucial controversies, and reinforce the demand for a royal commission
British policing is not in systemic crisis. But it is in a very serious and possibly worsening mess. The rapid-fire humbling of Scotland Yard\’s Bob Quick and the slow-burn smoking out of the officer who assaulted Ian Tomlinson may [...]
Unless Israel\’s new leaders change tack, they offer Palestinians no partner for peace
Warning against the dangers of totalitarianism in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell famously summed up its perverse logic in three words: “War is peace.” Last week, Avigdor Lieberman admonished: “If you want peace, prepare for war.” The difference between Orwell and Lieberman [...]
The flowering inverse surveillance society can end the myth of faultless policing that survived 1,000 deaths in custody
Who watches the watchmen? Or, to translate Juvenal another way: who polices the police? The answer this week was a New York fund manager, of all unlikely superheroes, who provided the Guardian with key footage of the minutes [...]
Today\’s measures can have little impact in the face of a culture that systematically neglects victims of sexual assault
I have only heard one person expounding at length that women regularly “cry rape” in order to enjoy a free ride home in a squad car after a night out. And he was a detective sergeant. Certainly, [...]
Society led by markets and profits has failed. We are offering an alternative for the democratic left
The economic wreckage of market failure is spreading across Europe. The G20 summit has begun a global effort to repair the system, but there must be no going back to business as usual. Neoliberal capitalism is destructive and unsustainable [...]