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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,…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • Why numbers no longer win arguments

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    … Our treatment of numbers is not like our treatment of the old. It’s hard, except in rare cases, to be outraged by abused statistics. And in truth there’s nothing new here. But we’d do well to remember that numbers often represent people. To be careless of how we describe them in figures is to…

  • Why point the finger at home-educators?

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    We should not be surprised that schools are the latest instrument for checking up on families, says Bernard Trafford … In the storm of outrage that followed the tragedy of Baby P, fingers were bound to be pointed. Inexplicably, they are now being pointed at home-educators. The estimated 20,000 parents who choose to educate their…