Sesame Street has grown up… and gone X-rated. This is Avenue Q, a musical where puppets and actors share the stage and features songs focusing on adult themes, such as the very popular “The Internet Is for Porn” song, and “Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist”. Absolutely hilarious. If you haven’t heard them before, just do [...]

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Fake Your Space describes itself as a “new and exciting service which offers help to all the men and women out there who don’t feel like they are popular enough on social networking sites.” It says that “[i]f you are tired of seeing everyone else with the hottest friends and want some hotties [...]

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Alan Johnson, Secretary of State for Education (and deputy leader candidate), makes an attack on marriage, saying that there should not be “biased” in favour of married parents. He says that:
“Strong relationships provide the key to successful parenting and marriage represents the pinnacle of a strong relationship, requiring a public commitment between two people…But that [...]

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Just back from the pub to find that James Higham has tagged me with a mini-meme, asking: “Which two [2] posts have been your most viewed of all time?”
Unfortunately, I don’t really know. None of the page-monitoring things I use seem to keep this information, or don’t keep it for very long.
However, purely from memory, [...]

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Writing today’s Times, Rosemary Behan writes:
“I think I’m an internet addict. Each morning I wake up with something really important to do - like writing a book - and find myself checking my e-mail, trawling news websites, following random links, reading the articles, reading the comments, running a few words through Google . . . [...]

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IPPR are claiming that “[f]aith schools, which can select according to religious belief, are 10 times more likely to be “highly unrepresentative” of the children in their local communities… [and] [n]on-faith schools which also run their own admissions were six times more likely to have a “highly unrepresentative” intake” according to the Telegraph. By “highly [...]

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After watching this I had to go and bleach my eyeballs. It’s that bad.

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“Tony Blair’s backing for the Iraq war will be honoured by history in the same way as Churchill’s decision to fight Hitler, Iraq’s former prime minister has told The Sunday Telegraph.In remarks that will be a welcome fillip to Mr Blair, Ibrahim al-Jaafari said that getting rid of Saddam Hussein would be a legacy that [...]

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Amongst the 1.8million people to sign the e-petition against the governments plan to implement road pricing, ignored by the government, it seems that there were also about 150 civil servants from the Department for Transport.
When the very civil servants who would be expected to implement and administrate the policy go as far as to sign [...]

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Chimps have been seen to use spears to get food. Proof that Man is not the only animal who can create and use tools. According to reports, it is the females and the young chimpanzees who have been using spears mostly, resembling the way in which among humans the young pick up new skills and [...]

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