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Banned List: circles given wiggle room
Thanks to Will Goble for the next 10 items on th...
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The Carbon Price Support: driving households into fuel poverty
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The High Street: A perfect storm
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Is there a ban on reporting bad news from India?
It was the writer and activist Arundhati Roy who set foreign journalists in India busily chattering recently. In an interview with Stephen Moss in the Guardian, Ms Roy was discussing the Maoist and Adavasi “resistance” to encroachment on tribal lands. Mr Moss, asked her why, “we in the West don’t hear about these mini-wars?”. Ms [...]
By Andrew Buncombe | The Foreign Desk | Wednesday, 22 June 2011 at 6:41 am
Feminism: why aren’t we talking about it?
When feminism seemed to have reached a stagnant point in modern society, Caitlin Moran has come to preach to the herd. Women have lost their taste for feminism and this book will bring it back with the bonus clarity of what it means to be a woman in the 21st century.
By Nicole Froio | Notebook | Wednesday, 22 June 2011 at 6:00 am
iBet: Strike gold (perhaps) with the Gold Cup
Although things can get tight in semi-finals, the force has been with tournament favourites Mexico and they have scored a bundle of goals.
By Gareth Purnell | Sport | Wednesday, 22 June 2011 at 12:01 am
‘Hacktivist’ attacks continue: another breach, ‘more to come’
In the latest online security breach, personal details, including the phone numbers and addresses of more than 1,300 web users, have been released online by a so-called “hacktivist” who also threatened further leaks which could affect as many as 57,000 more people.
By Kevin Rawlinson | Notebook | Tuesday, 21 June 2011 at 6:50 pm
The effects of HSE cuts
The Government has announced a package of changes to the UK’s health and safety system, including a large cut in the number of at-work inspections. These cuts have a significant impact across not only the construction industry but also in terms of career opportunities within Health & Safety.
By Vicky Kenrick | Notebook | Tuesday, 21 June 2011 at 4:54 pm
Olympic Eye: GB Women progress while Brownlee looks unbeatable
How far can you go, Great Britain? After losing to Belarus and Czech Republic in Group B of the Euro Basketball event in Poland, GB women can now look ahead with excitement after they brushed aside Israel 74-51 to progress to the qualifying stage. Britain’s got talent.
And skill. It looked so ominous for GB just [...]
By Giles Lucas | Sport | Tuesday, 21 June 2011 at 4:34 pm
Time to care?
It is becoming increasingly clear that social care is in crisis. The travails of Southern Cross care homes, coupled with yesterday’s revelations about the inadequate state of home-care, point to the strain the system is under.
By Laura Bradley | Notebook | Tuesday, 21 June 2011 at 3:42 pm
Spinning their wheels or driving change?
The women of Saudi Arabia are again challenging the ban that prevents them from obtaining driver’s license. Over the weekend approximately 50 women around the Gulf nation took to the wheel, some making videos of themselves and posting them on YouTube.
By Caitlin McDonald | The Foreign Desk | Tuesday, 21 June 2011 at 1:08 pm
Glossary of Global Bureaucratese
The Banned List would have gone global, if “going global” had not been put on the List (top 100 here; next 50 here).
Allan Christensen, who works for Auckland Council, a merged super-bureaucracy in New Zealand, has sent me his compilation of “Corpolingo”, for which I am very grateful. He says: “All of these have appeared in [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Tuesday, 21 June 2011 at 12:16 pm
Caught & Social: All set and game for matches
To Wimbledon, where actress Kirsten Dunst was enjoying her first return to the grounds since filming the 2004 movie Wimbledon. Also coming back for the first time since the film, we discovered, was birthday boy Example (who is currently at the top of the singles chart), but the rapper’s role was slightly less prominent than [...]
By Luke Blackall | Notebook | Tuesday, 21 June 2011 at 11:54 am
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