2016-03-19 18:53
This was a while ago. I had been mainly watching the war in Gaza on Al Jazeera Arabic and I have to admit they do some very good quality (& obviously partisan) montages using various foo… Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
The big stories at the GCC summit in Muscat, Oman, were of course Israel's assault on Gaza, which the GCC was unable to react to in any meaningful way, and monetary union for the 6 GCC state… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
2016-03-19 18:53
It looks unlikely that I will be working as a freelancer for a while. I've found myself doing it for most of the past 3.5 years and what I've found toughest is managing myself. Work itself c… Read More
2008-10-26 18:58
2008-10-26 18:35
2008-10-07 22:45
Icesave - gits!, originally uploaded by Tom Spender. Great - now facing having to claim back my 2 ISAs. Come on Putin - please bail out Iceland so they in turn can bail me out Read More
2008-08-31 16:31
Congratulations Robbie & Seiko!!!PHOTOS from the wedding can be seen HERESeiko - a big konichiwa to the Spender family Read More
2008-08-08 06:36
It's all going to happen tonight. I'm off to Tian'anmen Square for a couple of hours to se if there are any protests - can't imaine there will be but you never know. This picture was taken a… Read More
2008-08-02 15:59
Woo-hoo - finally getting some multimedia action. Slideshow made using Soundslides and published by The National in Abu Dhabi. Apologies for the autoplay - I can;t seem to embed it without t… Read More
2008-07-24 13:06
I came across this question about whether or not there's any point in training journalists if the industry they are supposed to be going into doesn;t have any jobs to offer them - and have p… Read More
2008-07-07 07:54
Here it is then, Chinese-language graffiti on the West Bank Barrier. Look for the 平 or "píng" meaning "peace" on the 3rd slab from the left. Nice bit of soft diplomacy there … Read More
2008-07-07 03:25
Am posting using AnchorFree VPN - virtual private network - which creates a tunnel between me here in China and their server somewhere in the internet free world -Hotspot Shield creates a vi… Read More
2008-07-03 09:55
China is getting weirder and weirder.Just staying in the country has become a full-time job in itself. Visawise, the place has really clamped down. To get the 2nd 30-day extension to my tour… Read More
2008-05-14 13:19
Oooh, the temptation to be a "language polisher" at Xinhua, China's official government news agency. The salary isn't bad - about USD 2,140 a month plus a free flight home every year. If you… Read More
2008-05-13 15:02
Horrific scenes of small dust-covered dead children lying amid the ruins of a collapsed school building, their grey skin contrasting so clearly with that of the living and breathing rescuers… Read More
2008-05-01 08:22
Bloody hell London - do the right thing and vote for Ken Livingstone for Mayor.Boris - for and against.Boris is such an unknown quantity - is he a racist snob, as some say, or could he genui… Read More
2008-04-22 17:07
To continue a theme from yesterday, here's a pic of a Qin warrior statue guarding the Great Wall of China from my visit there today...The hapless foreign labour/slaves in the UAE can be plea… Read More
2008-04-21 06:48
Wow - this is entitled "The state of Sino-US relations" and depicts a Chinese Qin warrior having his way with the Statue of Liberty - I got it via Shanghaiist, where there is some lively dis… Read More
2008-04-18 15:21
Spent the last couple of days in the 798 DaShanZi art district - a former munitions factory area way out in NE Beijing just off the Aiport Expressway - for a travel feature I'm writing.The t… Read More
2008-04-16 14:10
Russian is more difficult than Chinese, my Russian former flatmate told me (in German), because it has a billion cases, suffixes and forms for different types of whatever action you happen t… Read More
2008-04-14 13:26
All Blogger blogs are now blocked again, which means I can no longer see my blog, although I can post to it. I'd love to know which blogs the Chinese government deems so dangerous that it ca… Read More
2008-04-12 17:03
Chairman Mao, originally uploaded by Langoustine. Aussie PM Kevin Rudd appears to have pulled off something of a coup during his Chinese-language speech (text here) at Peking Uni, accor… Read More
2008-04-10 12:19
Spent a happy afternoon uploading a load of pix to Flickr. Actually took way too long, but still - this and many more are to be found here.I've been in this Starbucks cafe far far too long n… Read More
2008-04-08 07:03
Great image (AFP/Getty via The Guardian)- China is going to have its work cut out to stop this kind of thing defining the Olympic feel, at least until the flame arrives in China (and Tibet)… Read More
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