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Pinboard- Sigourney Weaver: You can't keep a strong woman down - Features - Films - The Independent
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- Become a Programmer, Motherfucker
- Share a secret - One Time
- The Command Line Crash Course Controlling Your Computer From The Terminal
- Head Shrinking Techniques with Writer Mary Roach | Exploration | OutsideOnline.com
- Vinnie Jones: The caring side of bullet-tooth Tony - News & Comment - Football - The Independent
- At the End of a Procrastinated Day - removed
- Hotel & Igloo Village Kakslauttanen: Igloo Village
- On Larry King and an atheist's fear of death – Telegraph Blogs
Polly Toynbee- Any strategy for growth must include decent childcare for all | Polly Toynbee
- These empty apprenticeship schemes are failing our young | Polly Toynbee
- Politics Weekly podcast: the future of the NHS
- The NHS bill could finish the health service – and David Cameron | Polly Toynbee
- The welfare reform bill will incentivise people: to turn on David Cameron | Polly Toynbee
- Taxing wealth? The public mood still escapes the Tories | Polly Toynbee
- Don't expect the Tories to regret this bloody battle over benefits | Polly Toynbee
- Welfare cuts: now they're slamming the door on the truly desperate | Polly Toynbee
- On morality Ed Miliband is way ahead of Cameron. Now for the economy | Polly Toynbee
- 'Welfare reform has us terrified' – families facing the worst speak out | Polly Toynbee
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Monthly Archives: March 2010
Nobody has the right to be spared offence
The exploration of difficult subjects, and the expression on unpopular views, are becoming increasingly impossible in our nervous yet bullying culture. Terence Blacker: Nobody has the right to be spared offence – The Independent.
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Bash
If you know about bash you don’t need me to say anything. It doesn’t look like it is being updated any more which is a really bad thing though. If you have not been you should. It features reader-submitted snippets … Continue reading
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The chilling effect of ‘lawfare’ litigation
Radical Islamic groups in the US are intimidating the media with the cost of defending defamation suits in order to stifle criticism The chilling effect of ‘lawfare’ litigation
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The accidental communist
Leftwing party politics is a corpse – but working people are gaining control over their lives through co-operatives via The accidental communist
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Confusion
If you like puzzles this deserves your time. If I was stuck I would take the puzzle to the pub where the collective minds would eventually work it out. One puzzle toward the end completely stuck me and my fellow … Continue reading
Sunscreen
I’m a dad and I know nothing – at least when I am trying to tell my girls how life will creep up on them, that they should make the most of now – today, this week, really now, not … Continue reading