I do not like Ms Watson [pictured]. I strongly dislike her and there has to be a reason because I don’t like not liking someone. Actually there is a reason – in fact, many reasons. Allow me to list some: The reasons she is in that job
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There’s nothing more annoying than a site we can’t easily navigate and there are other factors too influencing us every time we click in. I’ve listed some of those in this post. Blog format or magazine? When we visit a newspaper, there are many articles on a wide range of topics, the author not mattering [...]
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We’re back to the same old-same old with the XDR-TB issue which I first saw in Goodnight Vienna’s post. To bring us up to speed [and even this is now outdated], you might read here, here and here. You all remember Swine Flu, Bird Flu and AIDS. And what is the official reaction to the [...]
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An irate JD tells it as it is: Here we go again. Four more contenders for the 2011 Turner Prize and, once again, artists have been overlooked in favour of “artists” Details here. No point in complaining. The Arts Council sails on serenely unaware of its self evident irrelevance and stupidity. This is the one [...]
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Planning a trip this summer? Have you ever wondered about those key personnel who flit around the hotel when you’re not there? Read on and discover the delights of the chambermaids from hell.
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After considerable thought, I’ve changed the theme, rather than tweak the old. Give me 24 hours to configure it properly – there might be some disruption in the meantime, sorry. I hope the comments might work better now as well – there’ve been changes. Advantages Navbar along the top at last, features facility [not on [...]
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Council election This was a bit of an eye-opener because of the lack of choice. In the example in the last post on voting, there was a Tory, a UKIP, an independent conservative and a Labour. In that situation, AV made sense because I wanted to protest against the Camerontories whilst not letting Labour in. [...]
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JH is at pains to point out that this is Chuckles’ post, not his:
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There were many reasons why people volunteered in the olden days and by-and-large, these were altruistic reasons. Fast forward to a few years back and reasons included:
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Some of the performers who appeared at The Shetland Folk Festival this past week: Fabulously idiosyncratic, the Shetland Folk Festival again proved a showcase of Scottish island culture befitting its perfect setting; even the weather played its part. The specific Scotland’s Islands strand within the programme united acts from the Western Isles (Gaelic singer-songwriter Eilidh [...]
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There seems to be a certain amount of confusion over at Orphans on AV. I’ve seen many fellow bloggers’ takes on it and some are right. In Australia, where they have preferential voting [same thing and don't let anyone tell you otherwise, especially someone who hasn't lived under this system], it is fair, in that [...]
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On that Sian Massey who was knocked over by the Cardiff player, once again, we have a situation where, if girls want to play with the boys, then they can’t complain when things happen. And once again, as in the post on Lara Logan, it is a woman, Lulu this time, who speaks sense at [...]
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1. Which financial scheme devastated the Scottish national economy and led to the Acts of Union 1707? 2. To whom was the term Prime Minister first officially applied in our land? 3. What nationality was the Duke of Wellington? 4. Who first established the Penny Post? 5. Was St Patrick an Irishman? Answers: Darién, Sir [...]
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The really exciting thing to me in this story [H/T Chuckles]: The assault force of Navy SEALs snatched a trove of computer drives and disks during their weekend raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound, yielding what a U.S. official called “the mother lode of intelligence.”
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Uncle Bill reports: Very interesting post at Orphans about the lie of the land over there.
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We have a site, as many of you know, called Orphans of Liberty and it says it has a range of views, from libertarian to centre-right, including classical liberals. Somewhere in there is room for the true conservative. The question over “do as thou wilt” is to ask why it’s the satanist maxim, what is [...]
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Telegraph: Just asking like …
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“Colemanballs” are slips of the tongue when TV sports commentators get carried away with excitement or maybe are struggling to come up with a suitable description of what happening. The long time snooker commentator on the BBC, Ted Lowe died this weekend and most newspapers made reference to his most famous “Colemenballs”- for those of [...]
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Spengler has an angle on bin Laden: “America can do whatever we set out mind to,” President Barack Obama intoned in his May 1 announcement of Bin Laden’s death at the hands during a strike by Pakistani and American special forces. Not, apparently, without a little help from its friends, and remarkably belated help at [...]
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Sir Henry Cooper 1934-2011 Telegraph obituary here What if here. _________________________ JD‘s profile and a list of his posts can be found in the left sidebar at this site.
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The Devil has all the best tunes, or so they say. But he doesn’t have any statues. Or does he? Here is one of the few statues of Lucifer, the fallen angel. It is in the Parque del Retiro in Madrid. The sculptor was Ricardo Bellver. I have walked past this statue hundreds of times, [...]
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While info is global these days, the cross-pond news on the net is not always given the full weight in the other place. I know the tornadoes were mentioned over here [and no doubt on my non-existent TV] but they haven’t exactly grabbed us in the way the wedding appears to have grabbed the U.S..
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Another classic from Dearieme’s favourite: John Lloyd and John Mitchinson: The Book of General Ignorance, Faber & Faber, 2008. No, not Amerigo Vespucci, according to the daring duo. The real story is apparently this: Richard Ameryk, a Welshman and wealthy Bristol merchant apparently funded the second transatlantic voyage of John Cabot [Italian navigator Giovanni Caboto] [...]
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Well actually, I’m not sorry at all. Not in the least. We were talking about it at work yesterday and more than a few customers joined in. All agreed that she was stunning, that Wills was like a penguin, that nobody can stand Camilla, that the wedding was simply the best, that the vicar’s cartwheel [...]
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