Tag: news
member name: Ian Thorpe
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August 13, 2008 03:10 PM EDT --
So that cute little Chinese girl who sang the solo at the Olympic opening ceremony and "won the hearts of the world," to quote one tabloid headline, was not all she seemed to be . . . .
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July 02, 2007 11:48 AM EDT --
After the latest terrorist scares in Britain caused more disruption than the floods, veteran war correspondent Max Hastings said:
The flurry of precautions after terrorist alerts are almost . . .
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March 19, 2008 03:52 PM EDT --
I guess the McCartney divorce story has hit news bulletins around the world now...
Mr. McCartney was sleeping fitfully in his lonely bed, drifting in and out of dreams, taunted by . . .
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December 20, 2006 12:47 PM EST --
Decriminalising Drugs and Prostitution.
In my previous article about the murders of six prostitutes in a mid - sized British town I suggested a way to solve the "crack - ho" problem is . . .
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December 14, 2006 01:09 PM EST --
One story has dominated the news here in the UK for the past few days.
This week we have learned of the violent deaths of at least three, probably more, young women who made their living as prostitutes . . .
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June 04, 2007 12:31 PM EDT --
Some stories in the UK last week ought to remind us that freedom and democracy (or freeman moxy if you are American) is being eroded by creeping fascism.
First story concerns the fatigued firefighters . . .
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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 14, 2008 03:42 PM EDT --
This is a story I posted on Boggart Blog three years ago, before I was at Gather. I exhume it now because a) its funny; b) the phenomenon is happening again I hear.
Wild life experts around . . .
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March 15, 2008 12:25 PM EDT --
TOP COMEDY news of the week. The downfall of New York politician Eliot Spritzer this week reminds us how a name can affect a persons behaviour, what path they choose in life and ultmiately their fate. . . .
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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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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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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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August 06, 2006 01:17 PM EDT --
Just over a week ago I was branded anti-Semitic for suggesting the Israelis are a gang of murderous war junkies. I was not the only one of course to come under fire, anybody who criticised the acts of . . .
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July 08, 2008 12:26 PM EDT --
The Republican lady promised me marshmallows, complains Blue Gal in this video blog .
I had to tell her "Beware of republicans bearing marshmallows". Remember the Stapuft Marshmallow . . .
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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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March 09, 2008 03:01 PM EDT --
Overheard in Washington, Bill Clinton talking to a journalist ia a bar was heard to say:
"I'll be straight with you buddy, if the phone rang at 3 a.m. Hillary is the last person I would want . . .
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March 20, 2008 12:56 PM EDT --
The Republican nominee, Senator John McCain was in London today, meeting people he may have to work with in a few months, his visit featured prominently in lunchtime news bulletins. This gave me my first . . .
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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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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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