Global Voices Online

the POLSKI blog reports that “Basia, whose voice is familiar to anyone who in the early 1980s danced to Whose Side Are You On?, is back with a new album.”

Thoughts on schooling in Poland vs schooling in the UK - at 20 east.

Another open letter to Noam Chomsky and Amnesty International - at Americans For Bosnia, Greater Surbiton, and Srebrenica Genocide Blog.

A Syrian Foodie in London gives us a Halloween special with a Syrian twist to it, Tahini Pumpkin.

Samaha posts Ed Vulliamy's open letter to Amnesty International regarding the invitation to Professor Noam Chomsky to lecture in Northern Ireland - as well as background info on the campaign.

After a news item in the local press reported that a British MP had been appointed as rapporteur on Armenia and Turkey, Unzipped says that it used Twitter to check the accuracy of the story. Tweeting a question to the MP in question, it turned out that the report was false.

Siberian Light writes about the 3rd Russian Film Festival, which begins on Oct. 30 in London.

Now based in the U.K., Scary Azeri in Suburbs looks at one custom that both English and Azerbaijanis have in common — drinking tea. The blog says that enjoying the drink is an important tradition for both nations.

Deadpan Thoughts describes the humiliations and complications faced by Pakistanis to obtain an UK visa and opines that the government of Pakistan should “link the renewal of all British diplomat’s Pakistani visas with the same process (we) ordinary Pakistanis have to go through.”