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| Learning difficulties |
On a day when Prince Charles spoke for us all and Charles Clarke spoke for the rest, I was pleased to find that John Ray had got there ahead of them\. He reported this article by English lecturer Joanna Williams\. She has come to the realisation that this government’s great… |
Guessedworker |
Fri, 19 Nov 2004 01:27 |
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Sun, 21 Nov 2004 12:25 |
| The Somme |
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Guessedworker |
Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:22 |
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| They want to see your anger |
Censorious, over\-regulatory, ban\-happy, criminalising – that is the nature of Blairism and of our culturally\-liberating government as it impacts upon the quiet lives of Middle England\. If you hunt or if your hobby is shooting, if you own a house which you may wish to sell, if you own a… |
Guessedworker |
Thu, 18 Nov 2004 00:24 |
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Sat, 20 Nov 2004 01:40 |
| Whittle jet |
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Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:35 |
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| Now ... let’s all sing along |
No doubt the left looks with gloomy ingratitude upon the memory of A\.C\.Benson, who gave us the words for Land of Hope & Glory\. Likewise, Dr Henry Carey of National Anthem fame will not be admired among those who would prefer Prince William to marry an exotic flower of our,… |
Guessedworker |
Wed, 17 Nov 2004 00:49 |
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Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:36 |
| Bluebird |
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Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:44 |
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| Albion blocked |
These are momentous times in Flanders\. My friend, Johan Van Vlaams, blogs below on the new beginning for pro\-Flemish politics\. Meanwhile, I want to look backwards at the Vlaams Blok model\. Does it have a wider applicability\? What if any lessons does it hold for the benighted natives of my… |
Guessedworker |
Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:00 |
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Tue, 16 Nov 2004 17:17 |
| Breedlove |
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Mon, 15 Nov 2004 15:41 |
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| Remembrance Sunday |
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Sun, 14 Nov 2004 08:46 |
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| Coventry Cathedral |
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Guessedworker |
Sat, 13 Nov 2004 23:59 |
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| Viet Nam War Memorial |
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Guessedworker |
Sat, 13 Nov 2004 01:07 |
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| Ellis Island |
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Guessedworker |
Fri, 12 Nov 2004 00:22 |
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| Regret on hearing of the death of Arafat |
It was a long time ago\. If I had to rely purely on memory I couldn’t even be sure of the year now\. But, you know, I was young and didn’t worry for the world as I do today\. I didn’t understand the need to hold fast to the remembrance… |
Guessedworker |
Thu, 11 Nov 2004 11:28 |
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Mon, 15 Nov 2004 20:30 |
| Remembrance |
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Thu, 11 Nov 2004 00:27 |
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| 9th November, 1989 |
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Guessedworker |
Mon, 08 Nov 2004 23:56 |
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| IQ and the skills of nations |
Digby Jones, Director\-General of the Confederation of British Industry, will tell his members at their annual conference today, “there will not be any work in Britain for unskilled people … within one scholastic generation\.” Outsourcing is the culprit, with the jobs going to India, China and, increasingly, the countries of… |
Guessedworker |
Mon, 08 Nov 2004 18:10 |
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Sat, 13 Nov 2004 12:35 |
| French panic at the threat of extinction |
So despite all rumours au contraire there is hope for France again\. Magnifique\. |
Guessedworker |
Mon, 08 Nov 2004 16:25 |
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| Thou Shalt Not |
The story is told well enough here\. My thanks to Fred and Paul for the link\. To add to that, readers who are interested in knowing a little more of van Gogh and why he died, please read the comment by Braveheart in the thread of my initial post on… |
Guessedworker |
Fri, 05 Nov 2004 16:55 |
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Sat, 06 Nov 2004 14:25 |
| Um ... and the British people? |
Mr Blair’s thinking operates on three levels\: what is best for the British government, what is best for the Labour party and what is best for him personally\. Ewan MacAskill, Diplomatic Editor, The Guardian |
Guessedworker |
Wed, 03 Nov 2004 10:02 |
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Thu, 04 Nov 2004 14:59 |
| Murder re-visits the Dutch anti-immigration right |
Theo van Gogh, “enfant terrible” of Dutch cinema, was shot and stabbed to death in full public view in an Amsterdam street today\. The killing, in broad daylight by a man on a motorcycle, bore all the hallmarks of an assassination\. Dutch police have arrested a 26\-year old man thought… |
Guessedworker |
Tue, 02 Nov 2004 21:37 |
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Fri, 05 Nov 2004 16:18 |
| Best place for them |
One bright point of hope at last in the relentless march of statism and culture war\: our civil servants are a weak and sickly bunch\. Or possibly they are just lead\-swingers, depending on your credulity\. Or the lack of it\. A report published by the Cabinet Office has found that… |
Guessedworker |
Tue, 02 Nov 2004 13:13 |
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Wed, 03 Nov 2004 04:12 |
| Shucks, why’s somebody always gotta go say it better? |
That’s blog\-life\. No sooner have I made my, of course, lengthy and laboured point than some guy goes and says it all so much more precisely\. And concisely\. That’s academics all over\! Thanks Kevin\. |
Guessedworker |
Mon, 01 Nov 2004 16:09 |
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| Buttiglione, a Brit at the Dom and the dog that didn’t bark |
There has been no shortage of blogging about Rocco Buttiglioni\. He is, or was, good copy\. He brought about a colourfully chaotic passage in EU life, and we should all be grateful for that\. No doubt, the focus will now quickly move on\. His honesty and principle will not be… |
Guessedworker |
Sun, 31 Oct 2004 21:57 |
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Fri, 12 Nov 2004 00:37 |
| More than a pretty face |
Something perfectly pointless, egregiously superficial and just plain corny has passed into history with the decision by ABC to drop Miss America from it’s 2005 schedule\. It isn’t a passing that will trouble many\. Last month’s pageant drew a record low of 9\.8 million viewers\. The American public has pronounced… |
Guessedworker |
Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:24 |
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| Joschka Fisher on European geopolitical ambitions and you and me. |
Apologies for being a day behind with this one\. But Jim Naugherty’s interview yesterday of German Foreign Minister, Joschka Fisher, is worth revisiting\. It vividly demonstrates the gulf between public discussion here about the meaning of Europe and the kind of thing that is said across the Channel\. We shouldn’t… |
Guessedworker |
Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:39 |
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Sat, 23 Oct 2004 03:47 |
| Shock findings: Pregnancy indicates presence of male. Presence of male indicates abuse. |
In the piece I posted yesterday I displayed my ignorance \- not in itself unusual, of course\. But in this case I was specifically unaware of our equality\-driven government’s new initiative on violence against women\. No more\. The staggering thing is that neither Andrew Lansley nor, inexplicably, Ann Widdecombe rejected… |
Guessedworker |
Thu, 21 Oct 2004 07:22 |
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Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:38 |
| It’s Wednesday. It’s Society Guardian day. |
Over the rich, indeed fabulously rich years since 1997 all the willing little helpers of the Blair\-Mandelson Project have, like all large criminal enterprises, demonstrated that familiar, old habit of going legit\. The clashing, renegade clamour of the first, orange\-haired Lesbian Outreach Officers and Directors of Asian Women’s Collectives has… |
Guessedworker |
Wed, 20 Oct 2004 19:28 |
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Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:12 |
| In the beginning |
So here we are, online\. After four months of planning we have arrived at that precipitate moment\. The first post\. The one that should welcome, introduce, explicate, commend … and get the blog rolling\. The one that, like a best man’s speech, doesn’t need to say too much and doesn’t… |
Guessedworker |
Thu, 14 Oct 2004 21:48 |
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