2012 Retrospective

The Editor looks back at the year 2012 in Polari and how it has explored the LGBT subculture. Part 2: Queer Year.

The Story of the Turing Pardon, Part One.

A look at how Alan Turing’s secret work was finally acknowledged in the 1980s and the British government’s 2009 public apology for Turing’s treatment.

“Alan Turing’s work on cracking Enigma, and building a computer designed to play a part in the development of a British atomic bomb, was not part of the record. He was branded a “security risk” and duly sacrificed.”

Tony Blair is back!

The Liberian president prepares to usher in anti-gay laws, and Tony Blair’s charity Africa Governance Initiative looks the other way.

“Just when you thought it was safe to go back into international waters, the devious fin of Tony Blair appears on the horizon, and his unique brand of opportunistic insincerity threatens to pull you under.”

A critique of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation.

Why, asks Rebel Scum, is Tony Blair Faith Foundation forging links with the Christian Right in the United States? Is the soldier of Christ once again at war with the idea of democracy, and displacing it in favour of “faith factors”?

The militaristic Blair, a soldier of Christ, calls this latest mission a “faith offensive”. There is something rather apt about that phrase.