March 2012
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Virgin launch a journey to the centre of the earth... →
Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson explained the move: “I have a long held a fascination with volcanoes having read Jules Verne’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth as a young boy. I decided that one day I would go there too. Alongside our adventures with Virgin Galactic and Virgin Oceanic, volcanoes are the next great unexplored terrain. What can I say, I lava challenge!”
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How the Daily Mail conquered England
The Mail’s approach to the Internet was initially as wary as its politics. (Dacre still doesn’t have a computer in his office.) “A lot of people say that the Internet is the future for newspapers,” he declared in 1999. “Well, I say to that: bullshit.com.”
Until 2006, the Mail’s Web site was an embarrassment—five articles a day slapped onto a spare background, cut off by a paywall. “When the...
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“Hysteria, the medical historian Robert Woolsey writes, is a “protolanguage,” its...”
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From ‘What Happened to the Girls in Le Roy?’
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Yeah, GQ really are running an entire feature on... →
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How we met: John Paul White and Joy Williams (aka... →
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“Our troops and citizens have long shown what can be achieved when British and...”
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From Obama and Cameron’s op-ed in The Washington Post.
I’m not the only one who finds this whole ‘Together, we can do anything!’ schtick a little bit tiresome and more than a little bit frightening, am I?
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Ben & Jerry's rename ice cream in support of gay... →
Oh! My! Apple Pie! will become Apple-y Ever After and tubs will feature a gay couple atop a wedding cake decorated with rainbows.
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“I can expect to dribble my way into old age. If I am lucky I will acquire a...”
– Tony Nicklinson in a statement submitted to the courts as part of his case asking for a doctor to be given permission to help him end his life, should he choose to do so. His case has just been allowed to proceed by a high court judge.
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Moore as Palin: how did she do? →
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'The fact that Rick Santorum—a candidate whose... →
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Rush Limbaugh has been an idiot for a while now →
Back in October, Rush Limbaugh defended the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), led by Joseph Kony, the man at the centre of the KONY 2012 campaign by charity Invisible Children that has blown up over the past 24 hours.
Limbaugh seemed to think that the LRA are “fighting the Muslims in Sudan. And Obama has sent troops, United States troops, to remove them from the battlefield, which means...
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“In Article 16 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, marriage is defined...”
– From this article by Cardinal Keith O’Brien in yesterday’s Telegraph.
I honestly cannot believe he is using the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to defend his own denial of the basic right of all men and women to marry the person they love. His defence is almost insultingly weak,...
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Obama calls Sandra Fluke, the student branded a... →
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Why young women's healthcare needs matter →
This is a really good round-up of recent news coverage of the debate over women’s healthcare in the US.
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