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Whatever you do, don’t write it down
The scandalous memo from the Foreign Office about the Papal visit reminds me of that old communist era ‘joke’. Don’t think it. If you must think it, don’t say it. If you must say it, whatever you do, DON’T write it down. And for goodness, sake – if you do write it down for a [...]
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Trapped on a small island
All flights are cancelled. The ferries are full. Eurostar is standing room only. The ancient fire gods of Iceland have spewed their wrath as well as a great deal of ash and steam. The eruption of the absolutely unpronounceable Eyjafjallajokull volcano has stranded passengers across Northern Europe, but perhaps nowhere more so than on this [...]
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Raped and blamed
This week in the UK there’s been a story that keeps lingering. A survey of 1000 men and women in London found that attitudes persist that women who are raped are to blame (to some extent) for the crime committed upon them. Sad to say, but this doesn’t surprise me. Not at all. But as [...]
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Tags: crime, criminal justice, ITV, neanderthal attitudes, rape | 3 Comments »
Giving to Haiti – donating to the Salvation Army
via salvationarmy.org One of the sermons that has made the biggest impression on me was delivered by a member of the Salvation Army’s Caribbean territory to the non-denominational congregation we attended when we lived in Puerto Rico. They did some amazing, innovative and often counter-intuitive work there. For instance, they ran a jail. A jail [...]
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Tags: appeal, charity, earthquake, haiti, salvation army | No Comments »
Chocolate blind spots
The British are awfully fond of their own chocolate. And why shouldn’t they be? It’s made to their own tastes and preferences. But they’re wickedly derisive of American chocolate…or as it’s often phrased “your so-called chocolate”. As Cadbury’s the British chocolatier for the masses faces a hostile takeover by Kraft or a possible friendly-ish merger [...]
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Tags: Cadburys, chocolate, expat, food, Hersheys | 1 Comment »
Tlaxcala and other traitors
Fabled myth of the return of Quetzalcoatl or not, Cortes and his band of followers had some major cojones in taking on one of the most vicious and violently expansionist empires of the New World with a scant few men and no chance of backup. In Moctezuma: Aztec Ruler – a special exhibition at the [...]
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Tags: Aztec, British Museum, Communism, mexico, Moctezuma, Montezuma, Staffordshire Hoard | No Comments »
Damned if you do; honouring the fallen
Spelling counts PM Gordon Brown has been at the centre of a penmanship furore. Apparently it’s his practice to write to the families of British soldierswho fall in the line of duty. The mother of Jamie Janes, killed in Afghanistan, received such a letter from Mr Brown. She wasn’t too happy. In the hand written [...]
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The Nobel Peace prize and my random thoughts
Some lucky year Barack Ombama’s having, first the US Presidency and then the Nobel Peace Prize. Sweet. Did he deserve it? No. He hasn’t done anything yet. Should he accept it? Yes. What can you do “No, I spit on your silly prize. I spit on peace. Spplshttzss!” -0- It’s good that Obama won the [...]
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There'll be feathers on the streets of London
Yesterday out of the corner of my eye I saw this Evening Standard teaser board and my first thought, crazy thought, I know…was “license-to-kill” James Bond parakeets, ‘cos that would be cool. But I knew without looking up the story that this was the declaration of open season on London’s growing population of feral green [...]
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Tags: cull, goose, London, parakeet, photo | 1 Comment »
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