I was disappointed by this article. I was hoping that the monkeys might be trained to repair my car more cheaply than the staff at the local garage. Mind you, they could already be trained monkeys anyway, by the look of them.
Category: current affairs
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Nonsense
Left-handers better in fights. I’m left-handed, and don’t mind admitting that I fight like a girl.
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I shouldn’t laugh…
…but I did find this chap’s name amusing.
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Ukrainian blogs
I expect that you’re following the news from Ukraine as closely as I am. Try these English-language Ukrainian and non-Ukrainian blogs for the latest:
Le Sabot Post-Moderne
TulipGirl
The Periscope (includes translations of Ukrainian language news reports)
A Fistful of Euros
Ukraine, Oh My!See also Ukrainian Pravda (in English).
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Not Lassie
As Davo points out, "Flipper come home" just sounds silly.
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Doomed?
Aggers says the England tour to Zimbabwe must be called off. Sport and politics, chalk and cheese, oil and water.
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Hack! Cough! Wheeze!
Goodness! I seem to have suddenly developed a particularly bad cough!
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Borislessness
BorisWatch on Boris Johnson’s sacking from the Tory front bench. Interesting to read the comments there.
See also BBC News Talking point page.You may recall that I foresaw exactly this sort of scenario on October 6th.
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Cursed
Bush hails Blair as "visionary leader". Which must be quite a curse, really.
Debate-o – will be being closely allied to Bush be the final nail in Blair’s coffin? Or will it be domestic politics that finally does him in? -
For pity’s sake…
…when will our government and the rest of the international community get together and do something about this?
It is really hard to convey what it is like, when in the dark hours of the early morning, jeeps come in with searchlights, knowing that these people have absolutely no protection.I’ve been covering Africa for 21 years and I thought I’d seen everything, but to watch the officials and the police of a state like Sudan – which has just signed a peace agreement – demolishing people’s shacks under the eyes of international observer and breaching international law, is quite extraordinary and unique.
The population is terrorised and bewildered, with little faith in the power of the international community.