Aftermath News (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Convicted killer escapes from open prison Murdered boyfriend in jealous rage Jane Andrews was convicted of killing her boyfriend in 2000 after he refused to marry her. news.com.au | Nov 24, 2009 By Ian Collier A former aide to the Duchess of York who stabbed her boyfriend in a jealous rage when he refused to marry her has absconded from [...]
iCommandant (Free subscription) | yesterday
Guardians,As promised earlier, here is the text of Secretary General Mitropoulus' opening speech at IMO's 26th Assemby. It is lengthy but worth the read.ADM AMr. President, honourable representative of the host Government and honourable Deputy Prime Minister and Ministers, your Excellencies, Coast Guard Commandants, distinguished delegates and observers, ladies and gentlemen,Welcome back! ? by
Mark Wadsworth (Free subscription) | yesterday
Thanks to everybody who voted in last week's Fun Online Poll . Responses to the question "Who is better value for taxpayers' money?" (bearing in mind they appear to cost about the same amount of money) were: The Royal Family - 67% The Equalities and Human Rights Commission - 4% Neither - 29% Which is pretty much as I expected. FWIW, I am mildly pro-Royal family, because they are fairly cheap...
San Francisco Sentinel (Free subscription) | yesterday
Cartier and America opens Saturday, December 19th By Seán Martinfield Sentinel Editor and Publisher Photo by Lynn Imanaka CARTIER AND AMERICA covers the history of the House of Cartier from its first great successes as the “king of jewelers and jeweler to kings” during the Belle Epoque through to the 1960s and 1970s, when Cartier supplied celebrities of the [...]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
Prince William and Prince Harry are rising to the challenge of royal life together says Andrew Pierce.
Theodore's World (Free subscription) | yesterday
. Terrorist attack on US marines in Lebanon My dear friend at Bare Naked Islam has a post about Obama that is so horrible. Once again he is showing what an evil vile person he is and how he...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Originally published on 23 November 1995 If Princess Diana's words seem "extremely paranoid" – Nicholas Soames' verdict – then let's remember what Diana said about the Establishment for which he spoke – she is their enemy. [Mr Soames, then a government minister, said some of Princess Diana's views in her television interview indicated she was in the "advanced stages...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Critics call it a 'toothless watchdog' – and even its supporters admit it is the 'least worst option'. The Press Complaints Commission and its chair, Lady Buscombe, came under fire last week from MPs, lawyers, this paper's editor and bloggers. Is it time for a rethink? Geoffrey Robertson: 'The PCC's worst claim is that it has raised standards of journalism – it has not' The most satisfactory...
James Wolcott's Blog (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Subway'd downtown to the Sunday matinee performance of the Mint Theater's latest production, So Help Me God!, a satire of theatrical vanity and flamboyance written by Maurine Dallas Watkins back when the talkies were beginning to scythe through the...
EVIL EDITOR (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
“I am sorry about that Ehlana but alas my wife has forbidden me to take beautiful women out to dinner.” Tarkin knew immediately he had said the wrong thing and grimaced. “Wife? Wife. Do ye hear that sound? That be the sound of me broken heart crashing into the Mairi Sea. Right into the very heart of the harbor, in the mud, that will be where ye be finding me heart. The crabs be already...
a lil' fat monkey (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
An evening of Italian music at the Cultural Palace, An accomplished conductor leads from concertos to symphonies, A maestro is touched by the young talents surrounding her, A beautiful wife beams with pride watching her husband go solo, A passionate cellist feels every note echoed in his bones, A Queen overwhelmed by the presence of other royalties, A Malaysian monkey stands proud of his national treasure,...
GayandRight (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
This is what happens when we take 'diversity' too far... At the website of the Norwegian royal family we can read that “H.R.H. the Crown Princess yesterday visited 14 young scouts who meet at the mosque on Calmeyers Street. Both reading from the Koran and tying of scout knots were on the schedule the kids had planned for the Crown Princess.” We are further told that the Rabita scout troop...
The Untrusted (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species went on sale in London in 1859. Tutankhamen's tomb was opened in 1922. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas in 1963. Juan Carlos Alfonso Victor María de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias was declared King of Spain in 1975. Born today: George Eliot (1819-1880), André Gide (1869-1951), Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), Benjamin...
Scotland on Sunday (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
THEY were the darkest days of her reign, when she feared the monarchy was in peril. The Queen, a TV series on Her Majesty's life, will reveal the monarch spent much of the
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Secret correspondence between the exiled Duke and Duchess of Windsor and their confidant Kenneth de Courcy has revealed a dastardly scheme to change the course of British history by denying Queen Elizabeth II the crown says royal biographer Christopher Wilson
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