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Allah wants you to get a life
Muslim anger grows at Pope speech Are people’s (supposedly) passionately held religious beliefs so fragile that they can’t cope with a bit of dreary waffle from the other camp? I guess we’re back to the Danish cartoon thing again, aren’t … Continue reading
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Hungary in pictures
As mentioned a few days ago, we recently went to Hungary. I’ve now edited the 260 photos down to a “for the family” set and an even smaller “for everyone else, particularly those with short attention spans” set. The latter … Continue reading
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Old Lady snoozes at the seaside
I haven’t written anything substantial about the match-fixing scandal that gripped Italian football for most of the summer. While the trials were underway, I had plenty to write about the World Cup and, to be honest, I couldn’t have kept … Continue reading
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Magyarország
Got back yesterday after a holiday in Hungary… just under a week in Budapest and then a couple of days in Esztergom, a town on the “Danube Bend”. To summarise in one sentence, I really, REALLY recommend visiting Hungary. Like … Continue reading
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Flight 613 for Moronistan now boarding at Gate 3…
UK tourists stage mutiny over Asian passengers Even after all the talk of ID cards, CIA “rendition” flights, Guantánamo and the like, this is one of the most frightening domestic news stories I’ve heard in a long time. When even … Continue reading
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Prescott in “absolutely spot on” shocker!
I don’t know whether it’s a sign of new-found confidence after discovering his inner cowboy, but John Prescott seems to be talking a lot of sense today. Or is it the monkey/typewriter thing? Record his random burblings for long enough … Continue reading
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The right to argue
More sensible stuff from Henry Porter in yesterday’s Observer… The land of the free – but free speech is still a rare commodity “… we should think of free speech as an article of faith, as one of the ways … Continue reading
New music – “Dreams of the Old Country”
The most recent task over at the Guitar Collective involved composing a piece around a set melody. Now, while it would have been easy to make assumptions about the most appropriate context for this melody (it was written by our … Continue reading
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FilmFour on Freeview
Now that’s what I call good news! In this household’s occasional ruminations upon whether we could justify paying for a subscription-based cable or satellite TV service, FilmFour represented the main motivation for doing so (along with the Italian football, since … Continue reading
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How privatised utilities work, part 347
I recently switched my Gas and Electricity suppliers, choosing a dual-fuel deal (with “green electricity”) from Scottish Power in favour of my previous contracts with Npower and Ecotricity. The reasons for this were twofold… I’d recently received a price increase … Continue reading
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