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LGF - Aussie Police Told to Show Tolerance for Wife-Beating

Political correctness was supposed to work against domestic abuse, and now it’s encouraging it! As long as it’s not a member of your own family, eh?

Categories: People and Current Events

And I know just who to send for the American Blogging Delegation!

Telegraph - What makes a children’s film great? Next month, London hosts its first ever Children’s Film Festival. Here SF Said explores the curious magic that gives this overlooked genre its particular power, while our critics choose their top 20 kids’ movies of all time

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Categories: Entertainment

Telegraph - If you want to succeed, follow us Down Under. By Lynton Crosby

Let me get it over with right now: yes, you won the Ashes. Well done. You would win one day. Once every couple of decades is fair enough. Enjoy the victory while you can. Cricket, Crocodile Dundee, sheilas, the barbie [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Times Online - I still believe that this man might be the ‘bodger of blank verse’ Peter Ackroyd

I agree. The Portrait Gallery’s reasons are pretty weak, I think.

(We were out all day and when we got back the blog wouldn’t work for me. But now I have Hello Kitty leg warmers so it’s all [...]

Categories: Art and Literature

The Stupid Shall Be Punished - Spammenters Have Tiny Penises

The first three paragraphs have a lot to do with a post of mine, I Need to Screeeeeeed, about the way “grown-ups” pretend the Iran hostage crisis never happened, leaving people like me who weren’t born with a huge gaping hole in their historical context. [...]

Categories: History

Is Hitch his Quintus?

NRO - Crossing the Rubicon: The die is cast — or why it ought to be. by Victor Davis Hanson

For good or evil, George W. Bush will have to cross the Rubicon on judicial nominations, politicized indictments, Iraq, the greater Middle East, and the constant frenzy of the Howard Dean [...]

Categories: Politics

BBC - Smoking out the big question

Health campaigners are furious that - thanks to what they see as a classic government fudge - English pubs could soon be the last refuge for smokers in the UK. Provided the bar does not serve food, smokers will be able to puff away [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Well, I’m convinced.

Patrick Fitzgerald for the Supreme Court!

Categories: Politics

CDR Salamander - Peggy needs a vacation

Ah, so refreshing. And not just the ganging up on Peggy part.

Categories: History

Wheat & Weeds - Harmful Influences

Jeb Bush is in trouble for putting The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe on the reading lists of Florida’s schoolchildren. Dangerous exposure to Christian thought, don’t you know.

I made Peter read it a couple weeks ago. And he got through another two in the series before [...]

Categories: Entertainment

Wheat & Weeds - On The Spot Pre-porting

5:30 am. Alarm goes off in time for ABC radio news at the bottom of the hour. Top story (paraphrasing, but close): “Today could be the day that top Bush administration officials are indicted for revealing the identity of a CIA operative.”

That freaking idiot! We’ve [...]

Categories: Business & Media

Telegraph - Japan’s pop princess heads west Utada has sold 20 million records at home, but can she translate that into UK success, asks Benjamin Secher

She is one of the most successful popstars on the planet, but when Hikaru Utada walks into a busy Soho patisserie, she attracts less interest than the custard doughnuts [...]

Categories: Entertainment

Telegraph - I was so fearful of breaking the spell Mike Newell had already directed a string of hits, including Four Weddings and a Funeral. But, he tells David Gritten, the latest Harry Potter film was one of his biggest challenges

Yet Newell decided that essentially The Goblet of Fire was “a God-given thriller”. Set [...]

Categories: Entertainment

Times 2 - Has marriage gone out with the bin bags? By Jane Shilling

…,Ulrika [Jonsson] recently confided [to the BBC children’s programme What Kids Really Think] a) that it would be nice not to have to work, and that if she ever married again it would be to a millionaire; and b) that [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Times Online (yesterday) - Who will history remember as Galileo and Copernicus rolled into one? By Anatole Kaletsky

ALAN GREENSPAN HAS often been described as the second-most important man in America, but this is a gross understatement. Historians who study the late 20th century will devote far more attention to the changes wrought in [...]

Categories: Politics