The Spicy Cauldron

hocus, pocus & abracadabra: stirring up trouble for good

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June 19, 2013
by Andrew S. Hinkinson
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CHICKENS AS PETS: please buy, don’t pirate

Please be advised a man by the name of Steve Perry is offering pirated copies of a number of chicken ebooks via Facebook. The page he set up to do this has already vanished, perhaps because of Facebook getting involved … Continue reading

June 19, 2013
by Andrew S. Hinkinson
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Why is Saatchi still employed by the Evening Standard?

Why is this fan of strangulation as an emphatic ‘gesture’ still writing for the Evening Standard? Why, because he is rich and powerful, of course. You can do almost anything when you are rich and powerful. Other men would be … Continue reading

June 19, 2013
by Andrew S. Hinkinson
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China: do as we say, not as we do?

“Unlike a common criminal, Snowden did not hurt anybody. His ‘crime’ is that he blew the whistle on the US government’s violation of civil rights.” True. But for a Chinese newspaper to say this is pretty bizarre in a country … Continue reading