Comments by repa

GATE CRASHING THE ISSUE ONCE AGAIN

Tomislav K the new head boy in Croatia's HDZ and Nikolic winning the presidential lenta in neighbouring Serbia. And all EA can think to write about is the bloody Eurovision Song Contest. Pathetic...truly pathetic or as your copywriters would probably put it: Nutty, Bonkers, Wacky or any of the other new buzz words that they've picked up in ZOO magazine or from the Beano.

"The Snowy Day", a pleasant, anodyne tale...”

…If you find the almost startlingly beautiful pop art images of Ezra Keats and the subtle but serious undertones of his stories anodyne then I would seriously suggest that you think about handing this column over to somebody with both functioning eyeballs and functioning brain.

From a bureau in London everything looks funny except the quality of house cleaners in Tuscany.

except misery

bollocks

So whet your saying is that our right to a true democratic choice is our continents weakness....finally the truth comes out of the horses mouth.

Congratulations on your picture buyer’s acumen managing to find in the same day the only picture of Hollande where he looks like an idiot and the only picture of Boris Johnson where he looks like he might actually have a brain.

‘…Another favourite theme of Ms Le Pen's is a sort of anti-establishment, anti-Paris, anti-elitism, which she manages to carry off with panache given that she was brought up in a giant mansion just outside the capital.’

Rather like Sliver spoon Cameron’s basketball hot dog eating photo op with Obama and Baronet Osborne’s we’re all in this together crap…

C’est la meme chose n’est pas?

'...That is not incompatible with say criticising a government over South America but say supporting them against North Korea.'

Yes it is. Goodbye

Yalta Yalta...

No your wrong there old bean

It’s our job as readers and citizens to analyze the reasons behind why certain countries, individuals and stories are suddenly picked up by the politicians and press and hammered whilst others that are equally if not more obnoxious are not.

If you start accepting double standards then you don’t deserve what little freedom of thought you still have left.

Didn’t America…read we…support amongst others the South American dictatorships through Operation Condor, which all ran both camps in the name of democracy and freedom.

And what about China (that you failed to mention) don’t they also run Gulags? But then they are our friends aren’t they?

And didn’t Pol Pot? But we backed the Khmer Rouge did we not, even going so far as to send them SAS trainers.

Why Syria and not Bahrain? Why Zimbabwe and not Equatorial Guinea?

Real politics eh Mr.O? Not really very edifying is it?

And camp x-ray on Cuba doesn't that shame the world?

And the use of black prisons and renditions doesn't that shame the world?

And the defense of 'advanced interrogation techniques' doesn't that shame the world?

And the use of China as our major trading partner even though the Chinese also run both prison and reeducation camps doesn’t that shame the world?

And the supplying of weaponry and crowd control technology to despots like Saudi Arabia and Bahrain doesn’t that also shame the world?

And an unbroken history of always supporting the worst of criminal psychos from Pinochet to Pol Pot to The Greek Generals to Suharto…doesn’t this also shame all of us and everything that we supposedly stand for in ‘the west?’

People in glass houses Mr. TE…people in glass houses?

There is something almost sickeningly funny about The Economist rooting for a Socialist candidate, no matter how watered down Mr. H’s supposed left leaning credentials may be.

Why not just shoot us all, and get it over with.

“Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error”

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I would suggest that you either you look and think a bit harder in the future before hitting your keyboard or maybe it’s time that you thought about getting your eyes tested.

Since when did a packet of cigarettes have a strip of sandpaper attached to the side?

If your wits are as sharp as your eyesight I would suggest that you should maybe think about reading something a little less inventive.

strike one!

I wonder what Mordechai Vanunu thinks about all this.

“The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it” - Alexander Cockburn

Zar ne?

…she has energetically pressed the case by other means (in a bid, some argue, to distract voters’ attention from high inflation and other economic woes).

Are you talking about Kirchner today, or Thatcher 30 years ago?