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Stephen Pollard (Free subscription) | yesterday
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I wrote the post below about BBC Young Musician of the Year before watching the final, broadcast yesterday. Given that it had been allocated two hours on BBC2, I assumed we would be allowed to hear more than the same inane rubbish broadcast during the heats. As if. In days of old (yes, in this respect at least things really were better in the olden days) the programme consisted of the finalists playing...
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Crooked Timber (Free subscription) | 27/04/2008
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Simon Blackburn is clearly doing his best to give philosophers a bad name through his own “popular” writings, but his latest effort —part of “a series in which academics range beyond their area of expertise”—is spectacularly awful. Norman Geras, with whom I often disagree, takes issue with him in a series of posts here . [...]
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Switched (Free subscription) | 22/04/2008
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Filed under: Computers Retinitis pigmentosa is a debilitating genetic condition indicating severe retina deterioration. Those affected by it with suffer from reduced vision or, in many cases, total blindness. There is no known cure, so a diagnosis (often made during childhood) usually means inevitable loss of vision years or even decades later. That may be changing, though, with a prototype eye implant...
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A Socialite's Life (Free subscription) | 22/04/2008
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Just when things seem to be going pretty well for the troubled Baywatch star, the poor guy ends up in the hospital for treatment to an eye injury that was bleeding profusely. Stitches above one of his eyes became undone and began gushing blood. He was driven to the UCLA Medical Center by his assistant, where he is currently being treated. I'm all about thinking positive, but he really needs not to...
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The Editors (Free subscription) | 21/04/2008
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You may have noticed that BBC News on TV has a new look. BBC News network, nations and regional output on BBC1, BBC News 24 and BBC World have changed. I'd like to explain the changes and ask for the...
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Mr. Chalk (Free subscription) | 16/04/2008
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I can't quite understand this case . Did the Council really sack him for being bald? Is he suing them because his hair has fallen out as a result of teaching? Or is he just stark raving mad? Either way; if I had been the judge, I would have been unable to resist the temptation to insert the phrase: 'Hair today, gone tomorrow ' into my summing-up speech. Mind you, I suppose that's why I'm not a judge....
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Anorak News (Free subscription) | 15/04/2008
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“THE ROOF WHERE TV MARK KILLED HIMSELF,” announces the Star’s front-page headline. The Star is excited to have found the “exact spot” where children’s TV presenter Mark Speight committed suicide. And so it is that another London landmark is unveiled. And who would not want to visit the site, take pictures, perhaps paint a picture as Speight [...]
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wongaBlog (Free subscription) | 15/04/2008
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When I’m working at home I usually have Radio 2 on in the background. I like the music - contrary to its old-fashioned image, they seem to play a good range of modern stuff, but without the genres that aren’t particularly to my taste - and the presenters. It’s certainly light years ahead of any [...]
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...grayblog... (Free subscription) | 13/04/2008
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Reading this news story, I wondered this: given that we are supposed to be living in a surveillance society, with CCTV everywhere, security guards, 24/7 policing, anti-terror alerts and all the rest, how can one of the biggest, busiest stations in one of the biggest, busiest cities in the world have "a remote area" where [...]
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Advice Goddess Blog (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
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How would you like it if you hired somebody and found, six weeks into her tenure on the job, that she was 12 weeks pregnant?
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Celebrity Baby Blog (Free subscription) | 05/04/2008
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by auditioning contributor Carlie: Actress Jane Danson, 29, says she will ban son Harry, 20 months, from watching Coronation Street until he is older because she feels her soap character Leanne Battersby is a bad role model. Leanne isn't exactly a good role model for him. She's involved in arson...
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normblog (Free subscription) | 02/04/2008
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Here's an entertaining read about love, personal compatibility and literary taste:Anyone who cares about books has at some point confronted the Pushkin problem: when a missed - or misguided - literary reference makes it chillingly clear that a romance is...
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lying for a living (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
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“Russian cave cult deserts underground lair.” Members of a Russian cult who have lived underground for the past six months to prepare for the imminent destruction of the planet left their cave today after it began to collapse around them. Followers of Pyotr Kuznetsov, an engineer-turned-prophet who reportedly sleeps in a coffin, were persuaded to leave their [...]
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Will and Testament (Free subscription) | 31/03/2008
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It's been two years in the making, a massive commitment by the BBC to tell the epic story of how Northern Ireland became the place it is today. Tonight, at 9.00 pm, the Blueprint season is launched with the first of a three-part TV series on BBC One NI. There are follow-up programmes on Wednesday night, and a radio series begins next Saturday. We have a new Blueprint website, which will grow and grow...
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Nothing To Do With Arbroath (Free subscription) | 01/04/2008
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The BBC will today screen remarkable footage of penguins flying as part of its new natural history series, Miracles of Evolution. Camera crews discovered a colony of Adélie penguins while filming on King George Island, some 750 miles south of the Falkland Islands. The programme is being presented by ex-Monty Python star Terry Jones, who said: "We'd been watching the penguins and filming them for days,...
