Eastcliff Richard (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Cripes! It's been a bad couple of days for our septic isle! On Saturday, a restaurant review in the Independent described Ramsgate as 'blighted'. Today it's Margate's turn to get kicked in the proverbials by the Guardian . Writing about his quest to find the muse of T S Eliot in the Nayland Rock shelter, which was recently listed by English Heritage for being the place where the poet wrote part of...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
This complacent report shows that the PCC does not have the ability, the budget or the procedures to conduct its own investigations. The report confirms the central allegation made by the Guardian and has not produced any independent evidence of its own to contradict a single fact in our coverage. Doubtless because of its restricted powers, the PCC has, unlike Nick Davies, not spoken to a single person...
Monkeymagic (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
There is no point in denying it: we're losing. Climate change denial is spreading like a contagious disease. It exists in a sphere that cannot be reached by evidence or reasoned argument; any attempt to draw attention to scientific findings is greeted with furious invective. This sphere is expanding with astonishing speed. … The Science Museum's Prove [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
I can still remember the exultant, almost mystical, look on Kirsty Wark's face as she announced that The Guardian was about to reveal a major scandal involving phone tapping and Rupert Murdoch.
Ephems of BLB (Free subscription) | yesterday
Last month I submitted a letter to the Guardian pointing out that the same day’s issue had wrongly described Tony Blair’s job in the middle east as that of ‘peace envoy’. What happened next is described in a further email which I subsequently sent to the Guardian’s letters editor and ‘readers’ editor’, and on which [...]
1913 Intel (Free subscription) | yesterday
How evangelical preachers are trying to stem the tide of killings in the Olympic city What would happen if we ran into the police? “They would open fire,” Spiderman replied bluntly, his mouth half full with fluorescent pink candy. Welcome to the inner-sanctums of a murky underworld of murder, violence and solitude that is rarely seen [...]
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
http://m.guardian.co.uk/?id=102202&story=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/07/al-gore-interview-climate-change ...looks mysteriously unsleepy, despite having just flown in from a three-day trip to China. (After LA, he's due home for one night in Nashville, then off on a book tour that will take him to South Africa and Egypt. Denialists enjoy attacking Gore's personal carbon footprint, even...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
The dimensions of the unfolding disaster in Afghanistan are becoming bigger and more daunting by the day. Once-staunch defenders of the "good war" are starting to break ranks. Kim Howells, a former Foreign Office minister with responsibility for Afghanistan and current chairman of the parliamentary intelligence and security committee, questions in our newspaper today the central tenet of...
ACHOCKABLOG (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Guardian Review Michael Morpurgo's latest children's novel reviewed by Linda Newbery The former children's laureate has the happy knack of speaking to both child and adult readers, and of his vast body of work some of the most successful novels...
ACHOCKABLOG (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Enchanted Hunters reviewed by A. S. Byatt This is a grown-up book for grown-up people who haven't forgotten being childhood readers. It satisfies imagination and curiosity, revisiting things you suddenly remember clearly, telling you new things you didn't know. A....
Monkeymagic (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
All this feeds into one striking statistic. After next year's election about a third of all new MPs will have been to fee-paying schools, compared with 13% of new arrivals when the Commons last underwent major change in 1997. Most of this data is to be found in The Class of 2010, a report put together [...]
Mark Pack's blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
That's the question PR Week has asked this week, printing answers to what advice people in PR would have given over the situation Neal's Yard Remedies found itself in: The Guardian invited Neal's Yard Remedies to be the focus of one of its regular 'You Ask They Answer' slots in May. It agreed and sat back [...]
Yahyasheikho786's Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Twelve people were killed and 31 wounded yesterday when a US soldier went on a rampage at Fort Hood military base in Texas before he himself was shot by a policewoman. It is believed that the dead included troops making their final arrangements for deployment to Iraq. The killer was identified as Major Nidal Malik Hasan, [...]
chaosMonster (The Mind of Bob 2.0) (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Mikolaj Dowgielewicz, the centre-right Polish Europe minister, said treaty change was out of the question. He said the Tories were wrong to worry about powers being ceded to Brussels. "Nobody wants to repatriate powers from London to Brussels. The problem is powers are repatriated from London to Beijing. Without recognising that, without having Brussels and other European capitals on side, London...
1913 Intel (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
You should be worried about nuclear developments in the Middle East. They mean that the Middle East is going to blow up in a few years. Exclusive: Watchdog fears Tehran has key component to put bombs in missiles The UN’s nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence suggesting that Iranian scientists have experimented with an advanced [...]
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