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Category Archives: news

What’s wrong with the ‘left-wing’ newspapers recently?

14/04/2013

Putting a DENT in Independent: in one week, Independent publishes outlandish attack on “new atheists” for their being “Islamophobic” and …

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Iraqi civilian deaths v Latin American body count

05/05/2012

I’m not going to say these are fully comparable, but it does make me wonder why we hear so much …

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Psychics are useless

24/04/2012

Just saw a newsitem on Maddie McCann, who is missing now for nearly five years (7 May 2007). OK, she’s …

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Two obvious questions for the Tories

25/03/2012

Actually, it’s only one. If “this” is indeed not the way they raise money, and if the treasurer indeed never …

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Oh that funny government we’re having

14/03/2012

My opinion on the UK’s current government should be well-known (I think they’re crap, and that’s putting it mildly), but …

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The C of E and the Catholic Church contradict each other

05/03/2012

They really need to coordinate better and make up their mind. In this (pretty appalling, of course, but I don’t …

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Adam Lusher and The Telegraph are lowly cowards

21/02/2012

(with apologies for the slightly dodgy grammar in the header) Why, this header? Here’s why: “Slaves at the root of …

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The Worst Journey in the World - Apsley Cherry-Garrard
The Blank Slate - Steven Pinker
The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain

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Game of Thrones series 1

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