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The Times - France and genocide: the murky truth How far was Mitterrand’s Government involved in the slaughter of hundred of thousands of Rwandans? By Linda Melvern (the author of Conspiracy to Murder: The Rwandan Genocide)

There is remarkable television footage shot in the first days of the genocide in Rwanda. It shows a large [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Ezra Levant - Punished first, acquitted later

My lawyers have just received a copy of a letter from the Alberta Human Rights Commission dismissing the complaint of “discrimination” filed against me by the radical Edmonton Council of Muslim Communities. They had complained that by publishing the Danish cartoons of Mohammed in the Western Standard [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

The Times - Suddenly being green is not cool any more As the credit crunch bites, environmental policies are being ditched. But oddly we are doing better at saving the planet, by Alice Thomson

Julie Burchill can’t stand them. According to her new book, Not in my Name: A Compendium of Modern Hypocrisy, she thinks [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

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Ahh, that’s funny.

Categories: Politics

The Times - Prince Who David Tennant is introducing Shakespeare to new audiences

Prince Who!

To Who or not to Who? That is the question. Doctor Who was playing Hamlet in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new production at Stratford-upon-Avon last night. All preview accounts describe David Tennant’s performance as an extrovert Prince. His [...]

Categories: Uncategorized

Curtsy: Brett McS, for saving my bacon at the end of this so-far blogless day. It’s loose-ends week here at casa ninme. I’m feeling a teensy bit freaked out. But that video is cute. Also, we’re watching Planet Earth, so it’s extra-funny. This evening we watched the episode on the Poles and why the polar [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

Telegraph Blogs - If Tibet has the right to independence, so have EU nations, by Daniel Hannan

[Hans-Gert Pöttering, the President of the European Parliament] isn’t urging anything practical, like a boycott or sanctions; he simply wants athletes [in Beijing] to “give a signal”. This, of course, is how the European Parliament itself operates. [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

The Times - The simple way to stop being uneducated Despite our sterile school system and trash culture, Britons show a healthy urge towards autodidacticism, by Libby Purves

Keira Knightley, aged 23, has told a magazine that she is “completely uneducated” and that not going to university gave her a chip on her shoulder. “It [...]

Categories: Art and Literature

We had a heated conversation about this this morning. I’m not kidding.

The Sunday Times - Et voilà, France has a better way of justice, by Simon Jenkins

I got a sunburn today.

Categories: People and Current Events

Going to San Francisco for what was supposed to have been brunch but Caltrans expected me to be aware of their timetables. So after having the doors shut in my face and realizing that the trains only run on the hour on weekends, I called my mother to rescue me from the sunbaked platform (72* [...]

Categories: Wildcard

Deogolwulf: “Deep Rooted Weeds”

“As much as legislators and founders of states ought to be honoured and respected among men, as much ought the founders of sects and factions to be detested and hated; because the influence of faction is directly contrary to that of laws. Factions subvert government, render laws impotent, and beget [...]

Categories: Politics

ABC (US) - Anthrax Scientist Kills Himself as FBI Closes In Biodefense Researcher Apparently Commits Suicide Amid Probe of 2001 Anthrax Attack

One of the nation’s top biodefense researchers has apparently taken his own life, just as the FBI zeroed in on him as a suspect in the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks. [...]

Categories: War and Peace

The Times - Blame the rich for feeding the drug industry The police will never be able to win the war against drugs. It’s the culture of tolerance that is the real problem, by Melanie Reid

Bear with me, if you will, while I skim through a random selection of people who in one way [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

The Times - Katie Price: why was I snubbed by the polo snobs? I know far more about horses than the toffs who were made welcome, by Katie Price

I didn’t want to go to Windsor to meet royalty. I’ve met the Prince of Wales and the Queen before. I don’t need to be photographed [...]

Categories: Sports and Leisure