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  • My Kind Of Town

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    Officials in Pecica, a village town about 13 miles from the Hungarian border in the country’s west, ordered the bright red signs, complete with the phrase Attention – Drunks.

  • The Right of A True-Born Englishman

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    MP calls for burkas to be banned in Britain An MP has called for ministers to ban the wearing of burkas, branding it ”offensive” and ”against the British way of life”. Dear Mr Holloborne, how I dress is my business. If I choose to wear a burka, that is my business. Yes, I am male,…

  • Politics – Wish List – Electoral Reform

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    Proportional Representation I must admit I am not convinced by proportional representation, amongst other things I cannot quite see how it could be achieved without breaking the link between MPs and the localities they represent. At the moment, we vote for people, not parties. However, both Labour (Blaenau Gwent, Erith and Thamesmead) and the Conservatives…

  • Books That Stuck (Part The Second)

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    See here for Jax’s list and the rules. Winnie The Pooh – A. A. Milne Mein Kampf – Adolf Hitler Barbarossa – Alan Clark Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury The Sentinel – Arthur C. Clarke Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson Unordnung und frühes Leid – Thomas Mann The Empty…

  • It's time for the truth about spending cuts

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    The scale of Ireland’s financial crisis is chilling. A government panel of economic experts yesterday proposed huge spending cuts, including the axing of 5 per cent of all public sector jobs. Things are not quite that bad in Britain. But … The Times

  • Wearable Food

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    Small modelling a chocolate 99. We are big on wearable food here, my speciality is the egg and bacon sandwich tie.

  • Irony

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    From Every Parent Matters Letter from then Education Secretary, Alan Johnson, March 2007 Parents and the home environment they create are the single most important factor in shaping their children’s well-being, achievements and prospects. We know that the overwhelming majority of parents want to do the very best for their children. We know that the…

  • Historic Hunger Figures

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    World hunger is projected to reach a historic high in 2009 with 1,020 million people going hungry every day, according to new estimates published by FAO today. The most recent increase in hunger is not the consequence of poor global harvests but is caused by the world economic crisis that has resulted in lower incomes…

  • We built a beach

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    We live so far from the seaside, the poor little souls had to make their own.

  • A Little Spring Cleaning

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    We have a bench, a rather sad bench, covered in lichen. We will let it dry, clean off the last bits of lichen, wash it down and then it can be oiled. Big really worked hard and happily at a not terribly nice job. I think she found it very rewarding seeing the improvement she…