by Charles Cameron | Apr 27, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — another example of what I call “landmines in the garden” ] . I wouldn’t have picked a bio of Anders Breivik as a likely source for insights into Iraq, but Åsne Seierstad‘s bio, One of Us, provides one all the...
by Charles Cameron | Nov 13, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — skip straight to the last three sections if you want the meat without the fruit & nuts ] . I didn’t know that football hooligans were against salafists when I put together this DoubleQuote in a free moment yesterday — I...
by Charles Cameron | May 30, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a minor incongruity? — Breivik and Wallander ] . ** This is a quick (I wish) note about something that caught my eye — a character in the British (Kenneth Branagh) version of Wallander is decribed as a “cultural...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 25, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — meeting the opposite extremes in Norway ] . When opposite tweets crop up back to back, it can catch your eye. These two, from analyst (and one time Director of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 14, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — headlines, McVeigh, mea culpa, Breivik, media, guessing games and blame, puns, great tweet ] . . That’s yesterday’s Charlotte Observer‘s headline and opening paras for an article they reposted from Slate, which had more...