Tag: society
member name: Ian Thorpe
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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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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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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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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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January 08, 2008 01:04 PM EST --
We heard through one of the nuttier radio stations Mrs. Thorpe tunes into that Tom Cruise is threatening to sue Andrew Morton, an author who specialises is unofficial biographies of the loonier fringe . . .
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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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February 17, 2008 10:50 AM EST --
So the boy-candidate Barak Obama has chosen the phrase "Yes We Can," as his campaign slogan. Its a common enough phrase, uttered millions of times each day around the English speaking world . . .
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March 06, 2008 11:40 AM EST --
Forty percent of German soldiers are overweight, a news story this week revealed.
Given that ninety - seven percent of statistics are made up on the spur of the moment we should not take that figure . . .
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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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January 29, 2008 12:08 PM EST --
One of the big stories in the UK media over the last few days was the heartfelt complaint of senior news presenter Jeremy Paxman - "Paxo" - that his underpants do not support . . .
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