Tag: culture
member name: Ian Thorpe
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November 10, 2007 11:29 AM EST --
Munching my brunch of scrambled free range eggs on wholemeal bread and sipping my fair trade Orange Juice yesterday, I sumbled upon a TV show in which a “western” Feng Shui expert was . . .
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May 03, 2006 01:20 PM EDT --
Its always nice to be featured in a poetry mag, but to be invited to submit work to the relaunch edition, as I have been this month, is especially pleasing.
If you are a poet or enjoy reading poetry . . .
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May 10, 2006 01:02 PM EDT --
go back to part 1
How should English poetry be defined. Aha! English is the most flexible of all languages which, experts acknowledge, makes it overall the best language for poetry (Italian is the . . .
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August 21, 2006 12:41 PM EDT --
My earlier article here, So Who Is Anti Semitic drew the predicted responses from religious right and neo-con commenters, most of whom entirely missed the point (no surprise there) which was that those . . .
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January 14, 2008 01:07 PM EST --
Have you heard negative stuff about Facebook and wondered should you be there, or should your kids be there. Or are you not a member and wondering whether you should join the "coolest" of . . .
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December 12, 2008 01:19 PM EST --
With somebody named Blagojevich in the news it seems a good time to introduce a you to a new new word, Blag.
Blag, according to the Oxford English Dictionary is a verb that originated in . . .
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February 24, 2009 01:34 PM EST --
An article to interest those who have ever wondered what African people really think about the west. Nigerian polymath Dambisa Moyo in her book Dead Aid reveals the truth. Links to . . .
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September 21, 2009 01:35 PM EDT --
No need to read this or comment, I only post here for the links now... This is another skewed news story that was first posted on Boggart Blog my satirical blog on UK news.
It is the . . .
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December 04, 2007 01:14 PM EST --
Today’s revelation that chimps regularly outperformed human students in a series of intelligence tests comes as a blow to beleaguered education ministers trying to fend of criticism about failing . . .
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March 03, 2008 12:24 PM EST --
If we were in the business of rehabilitating criminals in the prison system so that on being discharged they were equipped to take their place in society and earn and honest living how would we go about . . .
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March 10, 2008 12:03 PM EDT --
To be published this week, a new scientific study of sleeplessness lists amongst its findings that one common cause of sleeplessness is watching a television news bulletin before going to bed.
The . . .
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April 07, 2008 01:24 PM EDT --
As the topic of education (or lack of it) seems to come up ever more frequently in my comment threads and we seem to be losing sight of the fact that one of the great socially improving reforms of . . .
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April 13, 2008 12:11 PM EDT --
Why are there so many flavours of Gather Thought Police. And why do these people have in common that irritating trait of hitting the keyboard before they switch on their brain.
Today someone called . . .
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May 22, 2008 01:00 PM EDT --
It is simply unfair to ask politicians to debate a bill titled The human Fertility and embryo bill publicly, under the gaze of merciless comedy bloggers like myself, especially when that bill contains . . .
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June 29, 2009 01:36 PM EDT --
this article first appeared on my UK blog, Boggart Blog, which is referred to in the text.
Here in the Boggart Blog editorial office we love flipping through the public sector recruitment supplement . . .
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October 23, 2009 12:02 PM EDT --
As usual this post, originally published at Boggart Blog is a bit late arriving at Gather.
Following the shock of last week’s announcement that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 had been awarded . . .
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February 20, 2008 11:24 AM EST --
How To Talk About Books You Haven't Read
by Pierre Bayard,
English Translation published by Bloomsbury USA
Reviewed by Ian Thorpe
http://www.amazon.com/Talk-About-Books-Havent-Read/dp/1596914696 . . .
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June 07, 2006 12:47 PM EDT --
Gay Marriage is getting churchy folk worked up across the pond again I see.
When people of the same gender want to get married it causes a lot of bad feeling all around the English - speaking world . . .
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June 11, 2006 10:28 AM EDT --
One of the great traditions of the World Cup cup is that the leading nations bring along a set of crappy songs. Now there are rules about these songs that Americans may have problems with, you see they . . .
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August 02, 2006 11:51 AM EDT --
'Fraid its nothing to do with that famous misheard lyric. Last weekend me ears really were alight - ish.
My daughter is newly qualified in ear torching, or Hopi ear candle therapy, which is . . .
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