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Blast near Mexico City police HQ (BBC News)
An explosion has rocked the centre of Mexico City, killing at least one man and injuring two other people. The device was set off near the city’s police headquarters, Mexico City police chief Joel Ortega said. No group has so far said it carried out the attack.
Investigators believe [...]

Christopher Hitchens – As often right as he is wrong?

A modern disgrace
BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS in SLATE MAGAZINE

In December 1931, George Orwell got himself arrested in the slums of East London in order to find out about conditions “inside,” and then he wrote an essay about the people he met while in detention. One of them was a buyer for a kosher butcher [...]