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Pay particular attention to the first 43 seconds. I can’t find a complete version (this is only the first challenge) and the quality is pretty dodgy, but if I ever do I’ll put it up.)

(Ohh, it’s so much better all high-definition on our nice big television…)

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Sunday Telegraph - Let the people police the police, by Elizabeth Truss

This month Reform released The Lawful Society, a report that called for the public to take a more active role in criminal justice. The postbag in response was crammed with letters from frustrated people who wanted to get involved or had [...]

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The Sunday Times - Miss Street-Porter, I have a job for you in Cambodia Jeremy Clarkson

Others would say that we have enough problems on our own shores without getting all teary over the children of Mr Pot. I disagree, because these days, every time I think of underprivileged people in Britain, the hideous face [...]

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Just random stuff I would have uploaded if cell phone companies weren’t so useless/the Scottish public weren’t so good at wireless security (updated to be put in order, and then updated again with new photos from the phone which put it all out of order so with another update again to put it all in [...]

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Taken from Peter’s phone on our don’t-fall-asleep walk around my old stomping grounds (and even further up and further in since I’m actually with someone who wants to explore the city) outside a cafe with REALLY fast and really unprotected wireless internet.

And another one outside the Apple store on Regent Street. Ahhh, internet!

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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 [...]

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And now I want to move to Germany and have babies.

Curtsy: Wheat & Weeds

You know, I watch this on a day where not only has a coworker embarked on his two weeks paternity leave (beginning this morning with “watching them cut into his wife”), but this is the day my newly-married cousin moves to Austria [...]

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One of the downsides to using WordPress rather than Moveable Type is the comments view. It tends to default to listing the whole comment, or else there’s a short view which doesn’t actually say where the comment is, so the blogger (that is, me) tends to get lazy and go for viewing the full comments [...]

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Home. Fever. Sleep. Good. Tomorrow.

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We had a Red Flag Day. No, it’s not a sale at Macy’s. Big fun waves carving a wall out of the beach. Pictures to follow.

We also took a shedload of stuff to the Salvation Army. No pictures to follow.

And got delivery of the huge Crate & Barrel furniture I’ve been having a nervous breakdown [...]

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The carpet people came way early (idiot carpet lady says 10, 10.30, they’re here at 8.05) so I’m exiled by the pool, improperly sunscreened, huddled against the sun, finding out my furniture won’t come until at least tomorrow and thinking I might have to stay an extra week. And the chairs I’m supposed to be [...]

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Steyn Online - THE WEST’S TWO-TIER SISTERHOOD

At the time Ms Faludi was detecting patriarchal oppression in my NR prose, the Bush/Blair patriarchal phallocracy was busy liberating Afghanistan, a country where women were forbidden by law from feeling sunlight on their faces. When I used to point that out in speeches, huffy western feminists [...]

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The Times - The year of the Paris Hilton tax LA Notebook: America’s estate tax will leave the rich watching their backs, by Chris Ayres

I say bizarre because this 45 per cent tax, levied against estates worth more than $2 million, will be repealed in 2010 - when President Bush’s tax-cutting legislation expires - [...]

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Woah!

Telegraph - Is Hillary Clinton running out of time? By Toby Harnden

History was still about to be made. “If people have doubts about a woman, they should look at Margaret Thatcher or Angela Merkel or other women who have been leaders of important countries - Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi, my late friend Benazir [...]

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The Times - Ken Livingstone’s Record The first in our series assessing the mayoral candidates

Between now and the election on May 1, The Times will be assessing the strengths and weaknesses of each of the main candidates vying to be Mayor of London. We will then endorse one. Ken Livingstone, as the incumbent, will [...]

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