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Oliver Poole: Tales of a War Correspondent

hold-up-now. wrote 1 day ago: “It was simple enough; don’t go out at night, don’t go out alone, don’t stay anywhere longer than 15 … more →

Tags: Interviews and Features, protection, British, Journalism, Black Knights: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad, Red Zone: Five Bloody Years in Baghdad, Oliver Poole, baghdad, iraq

Mannausa moves towards creating 'The Jewel' of Sarasota

Sean "Kelevra" Dreznin wrote 2 days ago: Date: May 31, 2012 by: Kurt Schultheis | City Editor Years of planning have led to Mannausa’s goal o … more →

Tags: dreznin, sarasota, SRQ, Real Estate, nai, Investment, Downtown, Sand, gulf

Seven-day-a-week newspaper publishing revolution shatters The Mirror

stuartsmithsblog wrote 2 days ago: The Rabelesian guffawing in The Mirror’s newsroom when Trinity Mirror’s chief executive … more →

Tags: advertising, issues, Brands, media, rupert murdoch, the guardian, News of the World, The Sun, The Independent

30.5.42

orwelldiaries wrote 3 days ago: Almost every day in the neighbourhood of Upper Regent Street one can see a tiny, elderly, very yello … more →

Tags: Political, war time, Alexander Comfort, Astor, beaverbrook, Churchill, embassy, Japanese, Nicholas Moore

Tom Phillips and A Humument: how a novel became an oracle

Bookblurb wrote 4 days ago:   Tom Phillips’s A Humument app, which can show a random pairing of two pages, a facility … more →

Tags: Books, the guardian, tom phillips, a humument, WH Mallock, A Human Document, James Bridle

Ebooks: winners in the generation game

Bookblurb wrote 4 days ago: Ebook consumption among older age groups continues to grow. Photograph: dbphots/Alamy/Alamy The grow … more →

Tags: e-tailers, eBooks, e-readers, the guardian, bowker, Anna Baddeley, dbphots/Alamy, OnePoll survey

Don't Destroy Research - Survives!

Wedge7 wrote 4 days ago: Yesterday, members of the Take the Flour Back campaign and many anti-GM protesters descended upon Ro … more →

Tags: Science, biofortified, don't destroy research, Dr Gia Aradottir, Geek in The Gambia, GENETICALLY modified, GM, GM crops, Nature

Toasting Mark Frankland

jonathanfryer wrote 4 days ago: The loggia at the Chelsea Arts Club was heated by the beating sun and the chatter of predominantly O … more →

Tags: Chelsea Ats Club, David Hindmarsh, Donald Trelford, Mark Frankland, Martin Woollacott, Neal Ascherson, Robert Chesshyre, Sue Arnold, the guardian

A Worthy Dream...7 comments

Rishi Ayyer wrote 5 days ago: In response to Mr. Aamir Khan’s article in the Hindustan Times, 28th My 2012. Also with respec … more →

Tags: Satyameva Jayate, Aamir Khan, Female Foeticide, child abuse, social revolution, dowry, doctors, corruption

Hitchin’ a Ride, to Rockaway Beach!

Rishi Ayyer wrote 5 days ago: The Ramones wrote the above song in 1977. Little did they know that a group of 10 individuals, all i … more →

Tags: The Traveler, breakfree, Journeys, Palghar, SHIRGAON, Kelwe, beach, adventure, summer

Contextuality

Rishi Ayyer wrote 1 week ago: The theory of contextuality argues that though all things may be inherently related to each other, t … more →

Tags: Philosophy, experience?, Blink, Malcolm Gladwell

Let the people decide ........ Parliament urged to put buggery law issue to a referendum

glbtqja wrote 1 week ago: VICE-PRESIDENT of the Jamaica Association of Evangelicals Rev Peter Garth has urged Jamaicans not to … more →

Tags: buggery law, intolerance, Legal Issues

Tackle homosexuality in schools, says churchman

glbtqja wrote 1 week ago: LEADING clergyman Rev Peter Garth says a special effort ought to be made to tackle the problem of ho … more →

Tags: Gay psychology and Jamaica's homophobia, Homophobia in Jamaica, Human Rights Issues, Hypocrisy and homophobia, Stigma and discrimination, Theocracy

How the papers reported Chelsea's football victory

haa912005 wrote 1 week ago: Chelsea’s European Champion s League victory kept Sunday paper editors later at the office tha … more →

Tags: Sport, Chelsea, West Ham United, media, Didier Drogba, National Newspapers, Newspapers, Roman Abramovich, Sunday Telegraph

Germany isolated over euro crisis plan at G8 meeting in Camp David | World news | The Observer

dralfoldman wrote 1 week ago: Various Euro bills. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This is a really interesting article from the Guardian … more →

Tags: EURO-CRISIS, Keynesian, austerity, Germany, David Cameron, Barack Obama, Angela Merkel, European Sovereign Debt Crisis, francois hollande

Contrary to what The Observer claims, there has not been "relative peace" in Israel8 comments

Adam Levick wrote 2 weeks ago: Weapons found in Palestinian terror suspect’s home, near Hebron, January 2012 Yesterday we com … more →

Tags: Comments which are off-topic, ad hominem, racist, vulga, comment-is-free, Guardian, Delegitimization, Terrorism, anti-zionism, administrative detention

Labour needs to get more radical to resolve the 'disconnect'2 comments

National Conversation Blog wrote 2 weeks ago: How can Labour leverage the “anti-establishment” mood and build bridges with the disench … more →

Tags: Westminster Bubble, seen and heard, andrew rawnsley, Ed Miliband, Labour

Crossword Look-alikes4 comments

telescoper wrote 2 weeks ago: I wonder if anyone else has noticed the remarkable similarity between this clue, by Paul, in yesterd … more →

Tags: Crosswords, paul, Everyman Crossword No. 3423, Guardian Crossword No. 25634

France, Greece, Europe: wind of change?

Riccardo Motti wrote 3 weeks ago: The general elections held yesterday in France and Greece are significant not only in relation to th … more →

Tags: Política, Attualità, Economía, merkel, Le Pen, Hollande, Sarkozy, Monti, France


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