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Times Online - Alpha Mummy Blog - Is divorce broken?

The news of Brian Philcox, who killed himself and his two children on Father’s Day, is striking for its tragedy but for me it begs a larger question: are families cast adrift during divorce? Our main image of divorce is based, [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Daily Mail - How I nearly lost my business after refusing to hire a Muslim hair stylist who wouldn’t show her hair

It seems too lunatic to be true. But here a hair salon boss reveals how she was driven to the brink of ruin - and forced to pay £4,000 for ‘hurt feelings’ [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

There’s a kebab/chips place above the Tottenham Court Road tube station. If it isn’t there anymore (and I don’t see how it couldn’t be, unless a Saudi sheik decided he wanted to transport the whole thing to his pool house, which, to be honest, if I had a Saudi sheik’s money, I would do), I’ll [...]

Categories: Food

Fox News - Levee Breaks Along Mississippi River in Flood-Ravaged Region, Bridge Closed

No mention of witnesses hearing a loud “boom”, so obviously FEMNSA silenced them.

Categories: Science and Nature

LA Times - Bush never lied to us about Iraq The administration simply got bad intelligence. Critics are wrong to assert deception. By James Kirchick (assistant editor of the New Republic)

Four years on from the first Senate Intelligence Committee report, war critics, old and newfangled, still don’t get that a lie is an act [...]

Categories: War and Peace

The Telegraph - The EU reveals its anti-democratic nature

Both Berlin and Paris have said, pretty explicitly, that they are ready to see an ungrateful Ireland consigned to the outer reaches of the EU for this aberrant decision. Such ugly bullying is a further stain on the EU. When the voters [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

It’s been a busy weekend for people of a royal persuasion…

Some super-cool pics of William being be-gartered as a Knight of the Garter the other day in Windsor:

Telegraph - Pictures - Prince William: Order of the Garter

And bearskin hats as far as the eye can seeeee:

Telegraph - Pictures - Trooping the Colour

And a hilarious slideshow [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Times Online - Blogs - The dangers of stereotyping the posh, by Daniel Finkelstein

My witty, talented colleague Sathnam Sanghera has an arresting column in this morning’s Times. His theme is discrimination against people he calls “poshos”. He thinks it perfectly justified: In general, [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Fox 411 - ‘Get Smart’ Misses by That Much

But it’s also been considerably dumbed down. There is a coarseness to the material that should make director Peter Segal and his two screenwriters a little embarrassed. In order to pitch the new “Get Smart” to idiot 12-year-olds, they let one person denounce another as [...]

Categories: Entertainment

American Digest:

Just asking: If Obama believes, “We need fathers to recognize that responsibility doesn’t just end at conception.” does he also then believe that human life begins at conception?

When I first read the words “Obama’s Father’s Day Message” I thought, Oh [...]

Categories: Politics

Times Online - Vatican bans Dan Brown film Angels & Demons from Rome churches

You insult our religion? Then you can’t film your movie in our churches! So there!

Categories: Entertainment

The Sunday Times - George Bush arrives in Britain with Bin Laden demand

As Mr Bush arrived in Britain today on the final leg of his eight-day farewell tour of Europe, defence and intelligence sources in Washington and London confirmed that a renewed hunt was on for the leader of the September 11 attacks. [...]

Categories: War and Peace

The Telegraph - George W Bush finds time to talk to Europe

[F]ive years ago, [relations] between Europe and America were reduced to a low ebb following the American-led invasion of Iraq. Most European governments abhorred Saddam Hussein’s regime and were exercised by intelligence reports that indicated he possessed a lethal armoury of weapons [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

I can’t bear to, so you guys have to be strong for me and read the whole thing.

Wheat & Weeds - Don’t Know The Drill

God he’s such an idiot sometimes.

Categories: Science and Nature

The Times - South Africa: going south Mbeki’s failures are damaging not his own country, but its neighbours, too

Sigh…

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs