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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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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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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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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March 04, 2008 11:04 AM EST --
The Democratic Party claim their candidates lost the last two elections due to sharp practice, the hanging chad election in the state of Florida swinging the vote the Republicans' way in 2000 and . . .
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May 10, 2008 12:45 PM EDT --
While looking at Crooks and Liars yesterday reading comments on one of the articles which had suggested John McCain's belligerent stance on Iraq and commitment to "staying in" indefinitely . . .
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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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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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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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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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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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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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March 17, 2008 02:15 PM EDT --
As some of you know I am a senior reporter for the Uberwald media corporation BNN (Boggart Network News) which is the news channel of choice for Boggarts, Bogles, President Bush, Scientologists and . . .
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