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MovieWatch: 25th March 2011
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Online House Hunter: A house by the sea
Has the spring sunshine started you dreaming about a home by the sea? Our online house hunter points you in the right direction.
By Alan Cleaver | | Monday, 28 March 2011 at 7:00 am
Blogging through illness: help or hindrance?
Sharing your deepest secrets with strangers over the internet shouldn’t come naturally, should it? What did we do with ourselves before we discovered that we could use the world wide web as a platform to vent, to moan, to release all the thoughts that otherwise are compartmentalised in the depths of the mind, refusing to [...]
Second City Blues
Just caught up with a speech (pdf) given by Andrew Adonis, former Transport Secretary and driving force behind the academy schools programme, in Birmingham the other day.
Former Cabinet ministers tend not to give interesting speeches, but this is an exception. The Liberal Democrat deputy leader of Birmingham council found it a little too interesting for [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Sunday, 27 March 2011 at 5:03 pm
The Trafalgar Square kettle: these are the facts, I was there
In the coming days, various media and political commentators who have not done so already will have their say on the the violence seen at Trafalgar Square. It will be worth asking how many of them actually saw any of it for themselves. These are the bare facts from inside the kettle, written neither in condemnation nor in support of any faction.
By Kevin Rawlinson | Notebook | Sunday, 27 March 2011 at 3:44 pm
Gates and Buffett show rich Indians how to help the poor
DELHI: It’s easy to be cynical about people like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett doling out millions and even billions of dollars to poor and needy communities world-wide, having made their fortunes working the world markets – one in information technology and the other in finance. It’s also easy to be cynical about Indian businessmen [...]
By John Elliott from Riding the Elephant blog | The Foreign Desk | Sunday, 27 March 2011 at 10:47 am
“Obama is Awesome”
Thanks to Blair Supporter for finding this fabulous YouTube film entitled “Coworkers Compare Iraq and Libya”. Satirising anti-war arguments against the Iraq war, he asks if she is happy that “Obomber” is attacking a country that has no WMD and innocent civilians will die. She responds: “Obama is awesome.” Or: “Obama is cool and awesome.” [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 26 March 2011 at 10:26 pm
“Anybody who doesn’t have regrets is an idiot”
I haven’t covered Blair hatred for a while. It’s pretty irrelevant and I was getting no closer to understanding its psychopathology.
When a commenter on this blog says, “Blair is worse than Hitler, not in terms of scale, but in terms of honesty”, there doesn’t seem much point in even noting it. And just because Katharine [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 26 March 2011 at 6:35 pm
Running Commentary by Paddy Ashdown
Paddy Ashdown is interviewed by Rachel Sylvester and Alice Thomson in The Times today (pay wall). He is accurately rude about the Labour Party’s positioning:
He predicts that Labour will look increasingly like “a bunch of superannuated students shouting from the sidelines”.
But what is more interesting is his scepticism about the NHS reforms:
If someone asks me, [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 26 March 2011 at 5:35 pm
Clegg to go whole hog and join Tories?
Number 545 in my series of Questions to Which the Answer is No is asked by William Hill in a news release this morning. Apparently the odds against Nick Clegg officially joining the Conservative Party before the next general election have been cut from 16-1 to 12-1.
Number 546 was asked by one of the best [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 26 March 2011 at 5:14 pm
Best Placards on the March
Ed Miliband has spoken. As if on cue, the anarchists in Oxford Street started scuffling with police the moment he started, so that both the BBC and Sky carried sound of his speech – unwisely comparing the demo to the suffragettes, the civil rights movement and the anti-apartheid campaign – over pictures of troublemakers with [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 26 March 2011 at 2:17 pm
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