Your humble blogger is a little preoccupied just now but couldn’t go past this one, courtesy of the English Free Press. Under plans [by Sussex University], research and in-depth teaching into periods such as the Tudors, the Middle-Ages, Norman Britain, the Viking invasion and the Anglo-Saxons will be scrapped, along with the Civil Wars. The [...]
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My friends sent me these pics about their Valentines Day in the forest yesterday. We’d been talking about the chapters of my book, here, here and here, where the couple go off to precisely this forest, not one like it and that’s where they were yesterday. Click on the pics for the big picture.
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To hear John Strafford speak at the conference, one had to go through the main room, down a service corridor and into a tiny room in the corner of the “fringe” building. Tory CCHQ calls anyone speaking here “fringe”, people like John Redwood, Roger Helmer, Chris Grayson and of course, John Strafford who writes today: [...]
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I ran this musical offering with Dearieme in mind but he didn’t come that evening [Higham wipes away a tear]. So, I’ll go in a slightly different direction this evening:
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With continual political blows to the solar plexus turning us all punch drunk and willing to even believe fantasies such as “we’re coming out of the recession”, another blow has come from a quarter we should have been prepared for – El Bulli is to close. I first read of it at Stephen Pollard’s blog [...]
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1. Wolfie, on February 13th, 2010 at 21:36 said: Valentines Day is for people who are single or married people who are unable to communicate. I’ve been married for five years and hardly a day goes by when we don’t tell each other of our love or how we appreciate each other. What do we [...]
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The interfering bstds have made it so that this can only be watched at youtube. Click on the pic or here is the url to paste into your browser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8yMeUdeHuE. We feel more closely that which we are closer to. We always do. Those with compassion can feel the Haitian tragedy closely, not unlike the [...]
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OK, so let’s get the history out of the way. Now we can move along to what it means today. In Russia, in school, the kids had a mailbox they could post friendship letters in and they’d be delivered, not on February 14th but at the end of each day leading up to it, the [...]
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After the hullabaloo over the Dutch court’s taking into custody of Laura Dekker, she now finally has her chance, she has her boat Guppy but now what’s this? Aangezien Laura en haar boot aan steeds meer eisen moeten voldoen,is besloten de Guppy niet verder aan te passen,maar om te zien naar een andere boot die [...]
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The farce trial being played out in the Netherlands, where uncomfortable pollies have their judiciary tilt the playing field should be getting more attention than it is: Of the 18 witnesses requested by Wilders, only 3 were accepted. Theo van Gogh’s butcher, rejected – Ahmadinejad’s personal cleric, rejected – 5 legal experts, rejected – Afshin [...]
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Planning to go on holiday? Dirtiest hotels in the world: Heritage Marina Hotel, San Francisco, California Phi Phi Don Chukit Resort, Ko Phi Phi Don, Thailand Arkona Motel, Niagara Falls, Canada Grosvenor Hotel, Blackpool, United Kingdom Enjoy. The Amsterdam “Hans Brinker” hotel is so bad, it advertises itself around Amsterdam with posters such as “a [...]
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Please bear with me here, as the thing will become clear: An investment trust owns a £1 million corporation bond, issued by a private housing firm. If there is a risk the private housing firm may default on repayments, the investment trust may buy a Credit Default Swap from a hedge fund. The CDS is [...]
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Anna Racoon says, at Jailhouse Lawyer: Prisoners incontrovertibly have an interest in who precisely is making the legislation that governs their stay at Her Majesty’s Pleasure, and I see no merit in the argument that part of their punishment should be further removing them from engagement in civic society. No legislation without representation may well [...]
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Can it be said that no two people will agree on whisky? Appealing to women is an interesting dilemma. On the one hand, the overt masculinity of the advertising and culture of whisky can alienate female drinkers, but creating brands specifically for women is not generally seen as the answer. Paul Godfrey is the group [...]
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Guînes Writing to his father from Paris (1778), Mozart described his fruitless attempts to teach composition to the Duc de Guines’ daughter (intriguingly, Mozart considered teaching music a “science”). His father suggested he persist patiently, adding, “. . . should Monsieur le Duc hear some little thing composed by his daughter, he will be beside [...]
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Do you ever travel by plane? Then this might be of interest: On the Heathrow crash: Peter Burkill praised his first officer John Coward after he glided a packed Boeing 777 on to the end of one of the airport’s runways following a power failure as it came in to land. Coward fought with controls [...]
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There are plenty of negatives I’ve heard about BT and BT Broadband but this story is a bit different. I lost all internet connection an hour and a half ago. Once I saw that it did not seem to be Firefox or Safari, the next thought was Google, as their services have been quite sluggish, [...]
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Here are various snippets from around the traps. Topics eligible for debate in David Cameron’s parliament: David Cameron today just unveiled plans to ensure that any petition of 100,000 people would be eligible for debate in Parliament. Any petition with 1 million signatures would result in a bill being tabled in Parliament. Sounds like innovative, [...]
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What to do about the Blogrolls? There’s just not enough time to visit the hundreds on my blogrolls and yet I want to. My mate asked two things about them: 1. What percentage of those you carry actually visit you? 2. Do you carry them to be visited or as some kind of archive? Second [...]
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The Beeb asked the question, two years ago: Whether it’s Heather Mills or Kerry Katona, the celebrities that ordinary people vilify seem disproportionately to be female. Why? Because of the music offering later this evening, I’m not in the mood for negativity – there was enough of that in the posts earlier in the day. [...]
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Click to expand All the way from Xinhuan: “This is the first time in our history that we are appointing the European Commission in our capacity as a real co-legislator,” EP’s President Jerzy Buzek said during the debate held on Tuesday morning. “This is the dawn of a new decade, with a new way of [...]
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Lady Macleod breaks into print on the galling state of affairs in Africa: “…the brutal war here in eastern Congo has not only lasted longer than the Holocaust but also appears to have claimed more lives. A peer- reviewed study put the Congo war’s death toll at 5.4 million as of April 2007 and rising [...]
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There are those who flatly refuse to see and then there are those who would like to see but don’t think they’ve seen enough to justify leaving the EU. These are the people I’m addressing now. The Road to EU Serfdom was a respected blog [on the right] some years back and then he just [...]
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