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Friday, 22 July 2011

Relief all round, the EU has found a solution: put Greece even further in debt

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The newspapers are full this morning of how the fat was pulled out of the fire at the last minute and the euro has been saved. Greece will g...
Thursday, 21 July 2011

Some pix and news of three concerts. Finally a Screws, euro and Murdoch-free blog entry

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Here are a couple of pics I took today, in no particular order and of no particular merit. I have also changed my blog pic for a while, just...
Monday, 18 July 2011

Those crafty lads at the FSB: now, apparently, they are running al-Qaeda. And the ‘hacking scandal’ – it gets even murkier, though one thing is clear: the Murdoch’s are on their way out

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A rather contentious, not to say very odd, claim has come my way that the FSB, Russia’s successor to the KGB is, if not actually now running...
Tuesday, 12 July 2011

RIP News International? RIP News Corp? Remember Thomson Newspapers? No, hardly anyone else does, either. And the euro shit gets ever closer to the real world fan

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When I first started in newspapers in the mid-Seventies a job with Thomson newspapers was something like the gold standard. Thomson’s paid w...
Sunday, 10 July 2011

What’s worse than an unsentimental hack? A sentimental hack. Lord save me from them and their bullshit

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Back at work after a week off sick when, coincidentally, the News of the Screws went to the wall, and I am fed up to the back teeth with all...
Friday, 8 July 2011

Has Murdoch pulled it off? The Devil closes the News of the Screws and claims ‘I am blameless in this whole affair. Now bloody well get a move on and let my buy all of Sky’ . . . UPDATE. . . UPDATE. . .

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Well, the news flows so fast that even this award-winning* blog can’t keep up (*St Breward and District Gardening Club (incorporating Blisla...
Wednesday, 6 July 2011

‘Citizen journalism’: complete cobblers or just a load of old cack?

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I gather from the BBC News website that a UK edition of The Huffington Post is being launched today. I have spent the past few minutes tryin...
Tuesday, 5 July 2011

And doesn’t it get sticky at the top. Here’s why one complete nonentity is sometimes glad that his life is basically sweet and, above all, simple

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There are times, dear reader, when I am glad I am nothing but an ageing boring old fart whose one vice is to pontificate in this ’ere blog b...
Saturday, 2 July 2011

Having ‘a spare’. Or is possessing seven laptops a symptom of early onset lunacy? No, sir, it isn’t! Please read on

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One of the jokes at work is that I am something of a gadget queen, and I must admit that the shoe fits quite well. I do love gadgets whether...
Friday, 1 July 2011

Johan Hari comes a cropper or the Sad, Sad Tale of a Hero of the Left who has broken the Eleventh Commandment. And Greece: is it a tragedy of a comedy?

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A curious, low-key spat in the Press these past few days about one of the darlings of the left who just might have been caught, metaphorical...