Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing
Posted in Misc on Jul 24th, 2007
England is a little underwater. Floods come and go, but history repeats itself. Warnings and lessons of the past are ignored.
So far, the media have shown the prime minister saying the emergency services are doing a “magnificent job” and nobody has challenged him about the £16m reduction in annual funding for flood defences last year [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 15th, 2007
A delicious spoof of Alastair Campbell’s diaries from today’s Sunday Times: Tony Blair: his part in my rise to world domination. Even some of the people Campbell rubbished and loathed were surprisingly generous; Matthew Parris for example.
Most of the papers seem to have had a laugh over the marriage of one of Osama Bin Laden’s [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 5th, 2007
Like millions of other BBC listeners and viewers I awoke to the news that BBC journalist Alan Johnson had been freed from captivity in Gaza. A bit of good news from the Middle East for a change. It was fascinating to see how the previously demonized Hamas was repeatedly acknowledged in various ways. It has [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 23rd, 2007
The Joy of Old Newspapers: I unearth two truffles unexpectedly, one about sexual politics and a solution to a problem ice cream vendor.
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 8th, 2007
Reza Khan, the Iranian minister of war, quotes a wonderful proverb on the wise man and the fool. Iran’s disagreement with the British navy causes some foolish behaviour in the British press.
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Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing
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