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Reflections

It’s 8 AM, do you know where your daughter is?

March 10, 2010

It’s rare that I see something that makes me positively queasy, but this little snippet certainly managed it:
Although a rise in teenage pregnancy rates is no longer a big issue in western society, a new trend is emerging in England and Wales regarding early conception that would still shock Britons.
According to data from the Office [...]

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Having kids at 14????

March 4, 2010

A Booker Prize-winning novelist celebrated for her ‘ability to inhabit her characters’ has revealed in an interview that she considers 14-year old girls to be mature enough to have babies.  Yeah, right.
The novelist is Hilary Mantel.  She is 57 and childless, having had, for medical reasons, an hysterectomy aged 27.  She [...]

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Back where he belongs?

March 4, 2010

There were many aspects of the Jamie Bulger killing that I found entirely incomprehensible: from the video footage showing the boys leading Jamie out of the shops by the hand to what happened subsequently to the very idea that these two people could be released back into society. Surely, someone capable of such behaviour at [...]

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Saul on Sunday.

February 28, 2010

Bridge Over Troubled Waters
Much has been said recently about the antics of professional footballers. John Terry and his alleged affair with his team-mate Wayne Bridge’s former girlfriend. Ashley Cole and alleged saucy texts to various models, which has led to his wife Cheryl Cole announcing their separation in a blaze of publicity. Not to mention [...]

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Saul on Sunday

February 14, 2010

Pay Up Pompey, Pompey Pay Up.
Portsmouth FC dodged a bullet in the High Court this week; they have stumbled from crisis to crisis and are now on their fourth owner so far this season. Up until now they have escaped administration, as the majority of their creditors are football related.
However it has emerged that they [...]

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There’s been plenty of smoke, hasn’t there?

February 9, 2010

And so it has finally come to pass: after years of bleating about being investigated for corruption and denied promotion on “racist” grounds, after several scandals and enquiries, the chickens have finally come home to roost for Chief Superintendent Ali Dizaei.
After a month-long trial at Southwark Crown Court the jury took two hours to [...]

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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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