Tag: people
member name: Ian Thorpe
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July 27, 2008 10:39 AM EDT --
I was not going to do anything here today, I just checked in to look at my messages. In the inbox was a question from Dame Ruth, a very good question that deserved an equally good answer. So, opening . . .
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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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February 28, 2008 12:12 PM EST --
Nothing new from me today as I have a stomach strain and it's playing havoc with my creative module. As many of my friends are guaranteed to have a well formed and well presented argument on 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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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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December 10, 2007 01:32 PM EST --
How would you feel if someone close to your heart presented you with a bucket of shit for Christmas. Grounds for divorce, you might think, or at least a suspension of conjugal rights? Such a reaction . . .
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July 05, 2006 12:29 PM EDT --
NOTE: this is not about an Irishman, the fictional name just happened to pop into my head while I was looking for sometjing that scanned. His real name is Carl Purseglove, he is a well known local character . . .
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September 17, 2006 12:41 PM EDT --
Was the DOPE (Dear Old Pater Ecclisiasticus) right to say what he did about Islam?
Resoundingly yes, bearing in mind it is only his opinion.
Quite recently we British liberals were involved in fighting . . .
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November 27, 2006 01:38 PM EST --
The American love of flags is often remarked on by comedians all round the world.
To help Americans of the patriotic right to kick their flag habit here is a very funny post by Liz Davies featuring . . .
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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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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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June 17, 2009 01:40 PM EDT --
It is that time of year again when our thoughts turn to a recuperative and invigorationg trip to the sea shore. Whether your idea of a good holiday is losts of swimming, water sports, long walks . . .
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May 05, 2009 03:26 PM EDT --
Lend an ear as I tell of, Van Goch,
the artist cut his lug'ole right off
Said his friend Gaugin
I'm a reasonable man
an apology would have been enough,
Everybody knows the . . .
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March 24, 2008 02:00 PM EDT --
Everyone knows of Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, the British naval hero who turned the war with Napoleon Boneparte's French Empire in Britain's favour when he destroyed the French fleet at Trafalgar. . . .
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June 19, 2008 11:55 AM EDT --
There are many strange things going on in the world, unseasonal rainfall and catastrophic flooding in the American mid-west, drought in California, hoards of ravenous slugs eating our gardens in suburban . . .
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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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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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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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