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Save the Whale!

February 26, 2010

Greenpeace would have been proud of the BBC last night.
Caught between the rock of trying to report on one of the day’s hottest story – that of the tragic death of Dawn Brancheau at the Orlando, Seaworld by a killer Whale – and the hard place of their own commitment to liberal values which must [...]

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And Steve Jobs spake, saying

January 28, 2010

You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is from Nokia, or that is from Dell, or that is from Acer.
You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I the Steve your Jobs am a jealous Jobs, punishing children for the iniquity of parents, to [...]

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Debtmanship – Man Bites Dog….

January 27, 2010

A Dallas man, mired in the recession that has caught so many multi-property owners during the collapse of the sub-prime market in the US, has developed an interesting and profitable side line.
Side line scarcely does justice to his working day, he is fully employed -  suing the companies that try to collect on the substantial [...]

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Her Majesty’s Blog Referees…..

January 27, 2010

Britain’s intelligence services raised the threat level of a terrorist attack from ’substantial’ to ’severe’ last week, meaning an attack was considered to be ‘highly likely’ – despite the Home Secretary saying that there was ‘no intelligence’ to suggest that an attack was imminent!
Who to believe? The Joint Intelligence Service or the Home Secretary? Is [...]

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The Laziness of the Desk Top Journalist.

January 26, 2010

The self-appointed luminaries of the former ’street of shame’ like to complain that the trouble with bloggers is that we take their ‘free source of news’ and enlarge on it, without thought for the cost of producing this ‘news’ in the first place.
Any bloggers thinking of basing a post on the story on female Air [...]

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The Silent Voice.

January 12, 2010
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Today, the Righteous Brothers will march on the Portuguese capital of Lisbon, banners proudly held aloft, ready to do battle in the endless contest between the clash of two fundamental rights: the right to freedom of expression and the right to reputation. They will demand that the Lisbon court treat the opposing arguments as being [...]

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In the Shade of The Sun

December 5, 2009
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Not in my wildest dreams did I imagine that my journalistic career would commence with me being the catalyst for the arrest of an international criminal. A man who has outwitted some of the finest investigators and police forces in the world. A man who is alleged to have [...]

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