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The Times, headline: The Conservatives understand it’s society, not the economy, stupid

subheadline: Mending the “broken society” should be natural Labour territory, but it is the Tories who have grasped its importance

Err, really?

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CDR Salamander - Terrorists scared of China?

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The Times - Stabbings, not sex, are the real facts of life A message of Gandhi-like passivity turning hordes of docile potential victims into human cash machines, by Janice Turner

When I recall my own moderately rough school - the cries of “scrap on!” outside the gates, the mean girls who’d thump hard, being shoved [...]

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Tim Blair - CLOWNS TO THE RESCUE

An ingenious plan fools leftist rebels holding Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and three U.S. military contractors captive: The hostages, who had been divided in three groups, were taken to a rendezvous where two disguised helicopters piloted by Colombian [...]

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Wheat & Weeds - Hermano, Can You Spare A Dime?

Man, Chuck Heston wasn’t kidding.

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The Sunday Times - This equality for women is an injustice for men, by Minette Marrin

Harman proposes to replace a “thicket of legislation” against various different kinds of discrimination with a single duty of equality covering everything from race and gender, through religion and belief to sexual preference and age. That seems reasonable, [...]

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Rod Liddle in The Sunday Times (I’m skipping the item about how pedophilophobia (hey is that a word yet cuz it should be) is poisoning relationships between children and adults):

The BBC which was once, according to the former director-general Greg Dyke, “hideously white” has now become equally hideously black. Samir Shah, an executive [...]

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Daily Mail - Sex and the City Boy: Champagne, cocaine and prostitutes - in the Square Mile

Telegraph - Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela ’supplies half of Britain’s cocaine’

Now we know why Ken Livingstone was always so chummy with Oogo. He was doing it for the City’s economy!

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The Times - Sperm donors: the father figures The ending of anonymity for donors has reduced sperm supplies dramatically

Like so many of Man’s best-laid plans, the Government’s attempt to give children conceived from donated sperm the right to trace their biological father has gone astray.

Eh…

Thump, thump, thump.

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This is a pretty good read, and is good for catching up on everything that’s happened since the media got distracted and moved on (it seems like the spring was just one Big Story After Another, what with this, then the monsoon in Burma, then the earthquake in China). But that’s why Rush calls ‘em [...]

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Instapundit:

QUESTION: Could a defibrillator have saved Tim Russert? “NBC News has declined to comment on whether an automated external defibrillator, or A.E.D., was nearby at the time of Mr. Russert’s collapse or why a defibrillator wasn’t immediately used.” Huh. Why keep mum? And this is clearly right: “One of the [...]

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The Times - French smokers abandon bars, clubs and restaurants for private parties

Smokers in France are uniting to beat a ban on lighting up in public by organising open-house parties where they can puff on their Gauloises until the early hours. The parties, held in flats and houses but also [...]

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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, [...]

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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’ [...]

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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 [...]

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