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Monthly Archives: June 2003
The Atkins diet for real men
My favourite quote in this story is a throwaway: “Grandma was a couple hundred pounds overweight”. It’s about a steakhouse in Texas, where you can eat five pounds of steak for free — providing you do so within an hour. … Continue reading Continue reading
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They told us so
all along, apparently, except when they forgot to do so. The thing about military experts’ predictions is not that they tell the future very well. But they tell you a great deal about the present. John Keegan’s pieces tell you … Continue reading Continue reading
worst breakfast read of all time
Comes from this report in today’s Guardian — Every half-hour for six hours afterwards, the researchers emptied the volunteers’ colostomy bags and tested the contents for a specific gene that had been spliced into the GM soya. I found it … Continue reading Continue reading
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Not that sort of ring
The Nine Bishops who wrote an open letter protesting that it was wrong to appoint a celibate gay as bishop of Reading last week have got themselves a nickname. They are known to their opponents as the Nazgul. Continue reading
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why no posts
Gay bishops. House painting. Hay fever. Sinusitis. Did I mention gay bloody bishops? Continue reading
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Galloway innocent horror
Two small bits of news about George Galloway: one of the English papers carried a “where is his writ?” note — apparently he still hasn’t sued the Telegraph for suggesting that he took money from Saddam Hussein — and the … Continue reading Continue reading
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Really good stuff
I have linked to The Whiskey Bar before. But I’ve just spent half an hour reading through some old posts, and I really think it’s the best political journalism anywhere on the web today. Continue reading
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out of cache
I have been fiddling with the style sheet for most of today. The results should be hardly noticeable, but if all the stuff in the right-hand column now is too large, tell me, and I’ll try and work out why. Continue reading
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A truly reformed Social Security
One of the secret joys of a religious affairs correspondent’s life is The English Churchman, a fortnightly which calls itself “A Protestant family newspaper”. It has no web site, which makes it difficult to give the full flavour, but, when … Continue reading Continue reading
The naked truth
The Whiskey Bar has already done a marvellous collection of Administration quotes that show how much they were lying about WMDs. Now here is an account of what’s really happening which is nearly as funny as the films it’s based … Continue reading Continue reading
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