All Stories published by The Awl on January 11, 2011

UK Hero Spy Cop Turns Hard Green

Have you been following the Mark Kennedy story? It’s the UK’s own mini-COINTELPRO scandal, except far more British and polite and with a kind of happy ending (so far). Cop Kennedy posed as an XTREME GREENIE, to quote Sarah Palin, for seven years — and then, when his…


Thoughts On Swine Flu, PLUS Kanye West And Jay-Z, “H.A.M.”

Remember a couple years ago, how freaked out everyone was about swine flu? Well, it turns out, everyone that got it was actually really lucky (everyone who survived, I mean). According to a BBC report on a recent study in the…

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