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Still banned by Facebook

April 30, 2025

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I remain banned by Facebook. Without any reason having been given I was first suspended and then told I was “ineligible”. But I was able to obtain the email addresses of the supposed FB “oversight” group that includes a former editor of Britain’s Guardian newspaper. I sent them the note (below) and received one reply: […]

Banned by Facebook

November 1, 2024

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It appears that I am now, according to Meta, “ineligible to use Facebook”. Initially, I was “Temporarily Blocked” because “It looks like you were misusing this feature by going too fast.’I complained about this inane reason by writing directly to FB since the only way to lodge a complaint is by first logging on, something […]

The Spear a Dick — and understanding satire

July 7, 2012

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First we had the Spear, a painting by Brett Murray. Now we have the Dick, a cartoon by Jonathan — Zapiro — Shapiro. And this satire of a genital nature has, in both cases, caused the same polarised reaction: support or amused indifference on one side; expressions of outrage on the other.

Filthy Shakespeare

October 2, 2010

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by Pauline Kiernan (Quercus) Review: Terry Bell Like countless students before and since, I struggled, at school, to come to terms with the language of Shakespeare. Not the plotting or the action; just the words. Outside of Julius Caesar. In much the same way I never understood why we should learn Latin if we were […]