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The Joy of Curmudgeonry - Fewtril #208

If we wish to know all about the age in which we live, we must also read the writings of those who died before it began, who knew nothing about it at all.

Two:

The Joy of Curmudgeonry - Fewtril #209

The modern liberal — let us say [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Silly season, eh? Well, this sort of thing seems to be stacking up (incidentally, who here saw Volver? When something grisly I shan’t specify happens and a neighbor knocks on the door to ask about something and then, startled, asks Penelope Cruz why she’s covered with blood and Penelope says, “female problems” with a [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Telegraph - RAF Eurofighters intercept Russian bomber

RAF fighter jets were sent to intercept a Russian bomber which was heading towards British air space over the North Atlantic, it emerged this evening. Two Typhoons were sent from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire to meet the Bear-H aircraft after the early warning [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Telegraph Blogs - Toby Harnden - The foreign correspondent: a professional stranger (part I)

There’s a great little booklet I keep in my downstairs loo. It’s entitled “A Professional Stranger: How to Handle a Foreign News Assignment” and was published internally by the Telegraph in 1989. Although the technology has changed – it’s full [...]

Categories: Business & Media

I feel like this misses all sorts of glaring points, but hey, it is the Telegraph. They’re bound to come at things from an angle somewhere between the BBC and David Cameron.

The Telegraph - A ‘human right’ too far

The stabbing to death of head teacher Philip Lawrence outside his own school when he [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Telegraph - We can’t defeat terrorism without unity. By Con Coughlin

But the irreverent tone of the exchanges has changed dramatically since the Bush administration’s mounting frustration with what it regards as the British military’s failure in Basra has erupted into the open. … The fact that so senior a figure [...]

Categories: War and Peace

The Times - Naked Politics Lap-dancing and the ascent (descent?) of Man

Isn’t Nature magical? Even at the dawn of time, as Nature was crafting the world we know today, Man looked about him in wonder. He saw life forms padding out of the sea to adapt to a new life on dry land. He [...]

Categories: Politics

The Times - For the Kids’ sake, listen to Batman A desperate message from the charity front-line, by Libby Purves

(The Batman thing is because the article is about an Iranian-born child psychologist child-aid worker whose name is Camilla Batmanghelidjh (I’d like to meet the man who anglicized Iranian) whose children she works with call her “Batman”.)

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Categories: People and Current Events

This sign. Rocks.

Categories: People and Current Events

Advertising Age - Will Movie Turn GI Joe Into Soldier of Fortune? Studio Considers Downplaying American Military Connections

GI Joe is a real American hero — and that might be a bit of problem for both Paramount Pictures and Hasbro. Their relationship would appear to be on extremely solid footing: Paramount and [...]

Categories: Entertainment

(I love that picture!)

The Times - Hollywood rodent cooks up a storm

A sewer rat called Rémy has succeeded where generations of statesmen failed: spreading a bit of love between France and the US. After years of discord, the French might have taken offence at an American yarn about rats in [...]

Categories: Entertainment

BBC - Pet camel kills Australian woman

The woman had been given the camel as a 60th birthday present earlier this year because of her love of exotic pets. The camel was just 10 months old but already weighed 152kg (336lbs) and had come close to suffocating the family’s pet goat [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

Daily Mail - Couple celebrate 40 year wedding anniversary after rare court battle with underage bride

It was the Summer of Love and Christine Seaman was caught up in the mood of the times. Despite being just 17, she had met and fallen for a man two years her senior and [...]

Categories: History

So, the other week, three kids from the University of Delaware, band members, were hanging around in a school playground in Newark, NJ (not Newark, Delaware, like I first thought, which is where the university is (news reports are so irritating, they should be perfectly aware that there are two Newarks in two states right [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

The Telegraph - Terror victims are BBC licence-payers, too

Over the weekend, the BBC was forced to remove a highly offensive message about Jesus from its website. All websites run the risk of being defaced by extremists, but why had this message been allowed to remain there for a week, despite [...]

Categories: Business & Media