Stories about United Kingdom from July, 2005
United Kingdom: IRA Announcement
Everything Ulster has a quick post about the political reaction to the IRA's disarmament announcement.
England: More on the death of Jean Charles de Menezes
Lenin's Tomb tries to make sense of the shooting death of Jean Charles de Menezes, the young Brazillian man who was killed by British Police in the subway.
United Kingdom: Muslims, Terrorism and Conspiracy Theories
Iraqi Expat, who's based in London, on the fear of terrorists that affects overseas Muslims.
England: Liveblogging London
The English blog perfect.co.uk has spent the last two days live-blogging on-going developments in the London terror case. (via a fistful of euros)
Bombings, what bombings?
London gasped in horrified anticipation, then shrugged collectively as four more bombing attempts fizzled out harmlessly today.
LENIN'S TOMB
In the aftermath of the 7/7 bombings, the blog Lenin's Tomb looks at rising Islamophobia in Great Britain.
Is it a Muslim Problem?
After the London blasts, Jeff Jarvis said he is not sure if the Western world is dealing with the problem of terrorism directly. However, he thinks that Tom Friedman has made it clearer when he said, “it's a Muslim problem, it needs a Muslim solution.” Humoud Abu-Talib, writing for Al-Watan...
Western Europe Friday Blog Roundup
A bit of meta-coverage: A Fist Full of Euros notes that “A recurring theme in all the commentary of the attacks is the stoicism, composure and defiance of Londoners.” Heiko Hebig points out that the bombings occurred even though London has one of the most comprehensive networks of security cameras...
Zaid Hassan's response to the London bombings
Our friend Zaid Hassan – one of the folks behind the Pioneers of Change social entrepreneurship project – posts his reflections as a Londoner and a Muslim on the July 7th bombings: At the mosque this afternoon there were two police-women standing outside, in fluorescent bright yellow-jackets. One was quite...
London blast blogging
(Image by “alfie” posted at moblog.co.uk) Thanks to Erica George for pointing us to this Livejournal Community devoted to information sharing in the aftermath of today's bomb blasts in London. DoWire.org has put together a “London Responds” wiki. Metroblogging London has been going all day, as have thousands of other...
Friday Global Blog Roundup
We’re always looking for new ideas and good stories to write about. If you have a story or a blog post that you think would be a good fit for our daily roundups, email us with the link! East Asia ESWN has a nice photo essay covering Hong Kong’s annual...