Tag: people
member name: Ian Thorpe
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July 27, 2008 10:39 AM EDT --
I was not going to do anything here today, I just checked in to look at my messages. In the inbox was a question from Dame Ruth, a very good question that deserved an equally good answer. So, opening . . . more
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December 20, 2006 12:47 PM EST --
Decriminalising Drugs and Prostitution.
In my previous article about the murders of six prostitutes in a mid - sized British town I suggested a way to solve the "crack - ho" problem is . . . more
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February 28, 2008 12:12 PM EST --
Nothing new from me today as I have a stomach strain and it's playing havoc with my creative module. As many of my friends are guaranteed to have a well formed and well presented argument on almost . . . more
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March 19, 2008 03:52 PM EDT --
I guess the McCartney divorce story has hit news bulletins around the world now...
Mr. McCartney was sleeping fitfully in his lonely bed, drifting in and out of dreams, taunted by . . . more
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March 24, 2008 02:00 PM EDT --
Everyone knows of Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, the British naval hero who turned the war with Napoleon Boneparte's French Empire in Britain's favour when he destroyed the French fleet at Trafalgar. . . . more
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December 14, 2006 01:09 PM EST --
One story has dominated the news here in the UK for the past few days.
This week we have learned of the violent deaths of at least three, probably more, young women who made their living as prostitutes . . . more
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June 04, 2007 12:31 PM EDT --
Some stories in the UK last week ought to remind us that freedom and democracy (or freeman moxy if you are American) is being eroded by creeping fascism.
First story concerns the fatigued firefighters . . . more
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January 14, 2008 01:07 PM EST --
Have you heard negative stuff about Facebook and wondered should you be there, or should your kids be there. Or are you not a member and wondering whether you should join the "coolest" of . . . more
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March 03, 2008 12:24 PM EST --
If we were in the business of rehabilitating criminals in the prison system so that on being discharged they were equipped to take their place in society and earn and honest living how would we go about . . . more
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March 10, 2008 12:03 PM EDT --
To be published this week, a new scientific study of sleeplessness lists amongst its findings that one common cause of sleeplessness is watching a television news bulletin before going to bed.
The . . . more
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March 14, 2008 03:42 PM EDT --
This is a story I posted on Boggart Blog three years ago, before I was at Gather. I exhume it now because a) its funny; b) the phenomenon is happening again I hear.
Wild life experts around . . . more
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March 15, 2008 12:25 PM EDT --
TOP COMEDY news of the week. The downfall of New York politician Eliot Spritzer this week reminds us how a name can affect a persons behaviour, what path they choose in life and ultmiately their fate. . . . more
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April 07, 2008 01:24 PM EDT --
As the topic of education (or lack of it) seems to come up ever more frequently in my comment threads and we seem to be losing sight of the fact that one of the great socially improving reforms of . . . more
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April 13, 2008 12:11 PM EDT --
Why are there so many flavours of Gather Thought Police. And why do these people have in common that irritating trait of hitting the keyboard before they switch on their brain.
Today someone called . . . more
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May 22, 2008 01:00 PM EDT --
It is simply unfair to ask politicians to debate a bill titled The human Fertility and embryo bill publicly, under the gaze of merciless comedy bloggers like myself, especially when that bill contains . . . more
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March 04, 2008 11:04 AM EST --
The Democratic Party claim their candidates lost the last two elections due to sharp practice, the hanging chad election in the state of Florida swinging the vote the Republicans' way in 2000 and . . . more
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April 11, 2008 12:14 PM EDT --
Thinking Outside The Bubble
Readers who prefer a larger typeface with more whitespace between lines may like to read this article at Greenteeth Multi Media The link opens the page in . . . more
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May 10, 2008 12:45 PM EDT --
While looking at Crooks and Liars yesterday reading comments on one of the articles which had suggested John McCain's belligerent stance on Iraq and commitment to "staying in" indefinitely . . . more
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November 07, 2006 11:22 AM EST --
1 November 2006
Its that time of year again when as a good pagan I should be recovering from my naked romp over Pendle Hill where on Halloween night we meet to cavort around under the stars, calling the . . . more
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December 10, 2007 01:32 PM EST --
How would you feel if someone close to your heart presented you with a bucket of shit for Christmas. Grounds for divorce, you might think, or at least a suspension of conjugal rights? Such a reaction . . . more
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