Buy your totally unoffical Olympic T-shirt

To commemorate the human rights record of the Chinese government, and the International Olympic Committee’s apparent unconcern with it, I’ve created an exclusive range of “tank man” T-shirts and other apparel.

Be the envy of your friends and wear your own Olympic “tank man” T-shirt. Remember this is a LIMITED TIME offer, since, although I am not breaking any law, the International Olympic Committee will probably try to get me shut down.

Here’s one of the T shirts:

Tank man T-shirt

I was going to sell these from my store on Cafepress, but unfortunately they’ve shut it down. So instead I’m making available the raw images and you can go to an online t-shirt printing shop with them yourselves (I recommend Spreadshirt). If you do decide to do this, I’d like to ask you to donate some money — say $10 — to Amnesty International.

What’s David Miliband useful for?

Jamie Kenny on the usefulness of David Miliband:

It’s difficult to see what’s being got at with the Miliband candidacy. There’s a sort of existential absurdity to it, as though the government have acknowledged that they screwed up big style, and to make up for it are giving us a shoe tree, or a random collection of beer mats. And we’re just standing there looking at this thing thrust into our hands, this inert thing, this Miliband.

In fact, it’s hard to conceive of any problem for which the answer is David Miliband, unless for some reason you happen to have a David Miliband shaped hole in a connecting wall, or some other significant flat surface.