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The Times - Chuck out these green myths Recycling isn’t anything like as eco-friendly as its propagandists would have us believe, by Ross Clark

Few conscientious, middle-class folk who sort out their waste into half a dozen different containers each week realise that technology already exists to make this palaver redundant. Many American cities have [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

I like how, with Angelina Jolie, the Pope is featured twice.

(And not as a Sith!)

Worth 1000 - Photoshop Contests - Celebrity Star Wars 3

Curtsy: Brett McS.

Categories: Entertainment

A latter-day British naval blockade:

Telegraph Blogs - ‘Moderate’ Muslims speak out, by Damian Thompson

A wholly innocent British teacher is facing a disgusting assault from the Sudanese authorities for naming a teddy “Mohammed”. Muslims in this country must be so ashamed that 54-year-old Gillian Gibbons could be whipped to within an inch of her [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Curtsy: this collection. I like the last one. Y’all.

Categories: Catblogging

This is so fun!

Times Online Blogs - Want a motto? Do it in Latin., by Mary Beard (rofessor in classics at Cambridge and classics editor of the TLS)

I am delighted to see that some of the contributors to the great British national motto competition realised that a bit of Latin might help out [...]

Categories: Art and Literature

I get the feeling people don’t have much faith in this little Israeli-Palestinian tête-a-tête-du-jour today. There’s the “farce” angle, the “sham” angle, the inevitable all-we-need-is-willpower angle from the Telegraph, and now the Syrian angle:

Opinion Journal - Condi’s Road to Damascus The price America will pay for her Syrian photo-op. BY BRET STEPHENS

Put simply, [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

BBC - Paris rioters ‘criminals’ says PM

French PM Francois Fillon has said that youths who have rioted for two nights in the Paris suburbs are “criminals”. More than 80 police officers were injured, four seriously, during the second night of clashes, police unions have said. … The [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

BBC - Beauty queen undeterred by attack

Organisers of a beauty pageant in Puerto Rico are investigating a case of sabotage after a contestant’s dress and make-up were covered with pepper spray.

Good heavens.

Categories: Entertainment

(someone tell Skippy to stand down)

The Times - Asian Model Rudd will do best if he is wary of his own party

In replacing him with Kevin Rudd, Australia has opted not for a revolutionary shift in policy but for a softer and more rounded version of the status quo. There will be some in [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Western Standard (March 27, 2006) - Sensitive to a fault, by Mark Steyn

In 1847, a man called Don Pacifico, a Portuguese Jew living in Greece, had his house burned in an anti-Semitic riot. He appealed to the Greek government for redress (the sons of some ministers had been involved) and got nowhere. But [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Oh dear.

The Sunday Times - US is‘worst’ imperialist: archbishop

THE Archbishop of Canterbury has said that the United States wields its power in a way that is worse than Britain during its imperial heyday. Rowan Williams claimed that America’s attempt to intervene overseas by “clearing the decks” with a “quick burst [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Tim Blair - COSTELLO GONE

Peter Costello has announced he won’t seek leadership of the Liberal party. UPDATE. Posted by the Age as Costello was speaking: There is no danger the Liberal Party will unravel following Saturday’s heavy electoral defeat, its federal director Brian [...]

Categories: Politics

So, Jeremy’s usually good at a good tear, but this one’s really special:

The Sunday Times - We’ve been robbed of our Englishness, by Jeremy Clarkson

As the nation settled down on Wednesday night to watch England play Croatia, I sensed an air of optimism in the land. A feeling that all would be well. [...]

Categories: History

I’ve had this kicking about for the past couple of days. It’s from the 21st.

Telegraph - A welcome move away from Braveheart bilge. By Alan Cochrane

It is excellent news that Scottish history is to be made a compulsory component of Higher examinations and the Scottish Qualifications Authority is to be congratulated on this [...]

Categories: History

Telegraph - Pope to purge the Vatican of modern music

The Pope is considering a dramatic overhaul of the Vatican in order to force a return to traditional sacred music. After reintroducing the Latin Tridentine Mass, the Pope wants to widen the use of Gregorian chant and baroque sacred music. [...]

Categories: Art and Literature