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Protesters campaigning to keep Terri Schiavo alive Terri Schiavo died today. In fact she probably died 15 years ago when her cortex was destroyed. In 1971, a 21-year-old Vietnam War veteran, Daniel Joseph Fiori was about to marry his childhood... Read more →
“He went to da Remigio and ate insalata di mare and coda di rospo in tomato sauce, telling himself that,because he drank only a quartino of their house white wine and limited himself to a single grappa, it was a... Read more →
It’s arrivederci not ciao or all’anno prossimo. The Pensione Bucintoro will close its doors for the last time in November this year. It is unlikely there is a better-located Pensione in Venice. It’s just far enough away from St Mark’s... Read more →
Glossy News.Com reports Vatican Introduces the Book Burning Mobile By Daniel H. Blazejewski Mar 17, 2005, 21:37 In an attempt to pick up where they left off hundreds of years go, the Vatican has introduced a new concept: the Book... Read more →
It’s easy to forget that BBC Breakfast was once a serious news programme. If memory serves Jeremy Paxman was one of the original presenters! Now we have the gormless-looking Dermot (Mondeo Man) Murnaghan and the ever-pouting Natasha Kaplinsky. She used... Read more →
For those out there who still believe that President Bush is a supporter of Human Rights around the world may care to read the entries on Stephen Grey’s wonderful, but scary, blog. Not to be read on an empty stomach!... Read more →
Paul Eddington as P.M. Jim Hacker and Nigel Hawthorne as Sir Humphrey Appleby in Yes Prime Minister Anyone who thinks that the conversations between Sir Humphrey Appleby and Jim Hacker in "Yes Prime Minister" are removed from reality, would benefit... Read more →
Ok, so you think I’ve too much time on my hands. But this really gets me going. We have a Prime Minister, a lawyer, who according to Hansard has no idea what is meant by the “burden of proof”. In... Read more →
Sir John Stevens The last time Sir John Stevens entered the political arena was with his badly thought through intervention supporting a change in the law relating to self–defence. He suggested, according to the Telegraph, “ it was time to... Read more →
