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may 2008 | 8th may | 02 may | newslinks until | 2008 apologies My del.icio.us bookmarks ...
AccMan

These are my del.icio.us bookmarks for May 4th: Facebook Suckage Syndrome | Venture Chronicles - Hard to disagree with Jeff - I killed my account off a few weeks ago. No regrets re: The Auditors: You Thought Backdating Was On The Back Burner? - It ...

indiana | north carolina | barack obama | hillary clinton | democratic Obama-Edwards: A winning ...
Eric Lee

It's the morning after the Indiana and North Carolina primaries. It now seems pretty clear to everyone that Barack Obama is going to be the Democratic nominee for President. The question now is -- what can we do to ensure that he defeats John McCa...

premier league | stoke city | teams | team's progress | safe chelsea Poll: Who’s Going Down in...
EPL Talk

<a href=”http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/579584/” >Who will be the final two teams relegated from the Premier League?</a> <br /> <span style=”font-size:9px;”> (&...

utter fiasco | police | cut crime' | cut crime | billions pounds Big Brother's Utter Fiasc...
An Englishman's Castle

Britain's multi-billion-pound CCTV network 'an utter fiasco which has failed to cut crime' - Scotsman.com News BRITAIN'S network of CCTV cameras has been branded "an utter fiasco" for failing to cut crime, despite billions of pounds being spent on ...

hillary clinton | clinton looks | vuitton gets | collateral damage | genocide campaign Collateral Damage
Kathz's Blog

[first posted 23rd April]There are many useful phrases in war. "Collateral damage" is used quite a lot. It suggests that the death of civilians - old people, the ill, non-combatants, dissidents, men, women and children - was an unfortunate accident ...

referendum | scottish independence | wendy alexander's | super thursday | independence move Two Referendums required ...
A Pint of Unionist Lite

Haven't seen this in any of the papers yet:Constitution Unit Press statement. Brian Walker Hon Senior Research Fellow, the Constitution Unit University College London A SINGLE REFERENDUM FOR SCOTS TO BREAK UP THE UNION WOULD BE UNLAWFUL TWO REFEREND...

20 weeks | mp | week limit | 24 week | embryology bill Nadine Dorries and "The 2...
NHS Blog Doctor

Nadine Dorries MPThe 20 Weeks Campaign was launched yesterday by Nadine DorriesNadine Dorries MP will on Tuesday launch the official parliamentary campaign to reduce the upper limit for abortion from 24 weeks to 20 weeks when the Human Fertilisatio...

60th anniversary | israel's 60th | state israel | jerusalem diary | diary reflecting Israel at 60
normblog

Today I'm celebrating the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the state of Israel, and I invite readers of normblog to join me in doing so. Here are six reasons, one for each decade, why Israel's existence is something worth celebrating. 1. The d...

food prices | food crisis | 770m | politicians reconsider | ethanol mandates A lesson from Afghanistan
EU Referendum

In February, we posted a story on the effects of the severe winter in Afghanistan. We used the story to illustrate the extent of the bad weather in the northern hemisphere – in the context of our more general points about global warming – and have n...

burmese | cyclone nargis | people burma | tropical cyclone | large tropical How to help the people of...
normblog

The email below was circulated by Mary Callahan, a Burma specialist at the University of Washington, and has reached me via a friend:A number of friends and colleagues have asked how to help the people of Burma in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis. Th...

traffic warden | parking disc | car | disabled parking | miss raine Fine Little Earner
Burning our money

Jean Raine ruthlessly turned over"A traffic warden issued a £35 ticket to an 82-year-old sufferer of Parkinson's disease, who was asleep in a car, because her disabled parking badge was upside down.The car was legally parked in a disabled parking b...

dismissal register | staff dismissal | national staff | aabc | business crime RickB
Ten Percent

BBC Jon Kelly- Workers accused of theft or damage could soon find themselves blacklisted on a register to be shared among employers. It will be good for profits but campaigners say innocent people could find it impossible to get another job. An onli...

bbc news | microsoft walks | walks away | news website | greens celebrating Jonny Rosemont
The Rosemont Loving

1. BBC News - Microsoft walks away from Yahoo Microsoft opts out of buying Yahoo! 2. EMarketer - Some Marketers Play Wait-and-See The credit crunch and its effect on marketing agencies 3. BBC News - BBC News website wins Webby vote The Webby awards ...

climate change | bruno waterfield | eu hypocrisy | vogtel | ackers Plug for new book - clima...
Paula Keaveney - Lib Dem ...

New Friends of the Earth book'How can I stop climate change?' released this week Friends of the Earth's new expert guide to climate change reveals how getting involved in your local community can help to stop climate change - while also being fun, s...

new blog | wordpress | thunderdragon | blogger | please update We're all going on a Summ...
England the Land Equal Ri...

Greetings loyal bloggersDue to the numerous technical dramas that Blogger is having,and the fact that Blogger nearly killed off my blog by deleting my template,however accidentally,and the extreme difficulty I am having posting pictures, my blog has...

richard holme | lord holme | paddy | liberal | died Sad news
Cllr Fraser Macpherson - ...

Two leading LibDems have recently passed away and both made a huge contribution to our party:RAY MICHIEThe former MP for Argyll and Bute, Ray Michie, has died at the age of 74. The daughter of Lord and Lady Bannerman of Kildonan, she chaired the Sco...

edward timpson | conservative candidate | local edward | election | timpson edward What Does 'Local' Mean & ...
Iain Dale's Diary

Yesterday the LibDems' Head of Innovations wrote a post on LibDem Voice attacking the Tory candidate in Crewe & Nantwich for claiming to be local when he wasn't. The fact of the matter is that he has lived in the area all his life and currently ...

speed limit | 30 mph | x5 drove | photographed baring | cramlington last Speed camera captures 'fu...
Law Actually

From BBC News 1.5.08: A front seat car passenger was photographed baring his backside at a speed camera in Northumberland. The "mooning" man was snapped by the mobile camera as the black BMW X5 drove past on the A1171 Dudley Lane i...

lambrou | island lesbos | islanders | court | greek island Lesbos for the lesbians
The Poor Mouth

An image of Sappho? Campaigners on the Greek island of Lesbos are to go to court in an attempt to stop Greek gay rights organisation Homosexual and Lesbian Community of Greece from using the term "lesbian". If successful then the islanders ma...

without actually | actually posting | blog everyday | cyber friends | posting anything The Last (Awards) Bus
Veg Plotting

Before I went on holiday, I was handing on some of the many awards I've been privileged to receive lately. Well, just before I went, Prairie Rose also saw fit to award me the E for Excellent award as well as Violtje. I couldn't let you know about it...

water fight | sees virgin | virgin mary | man believes | man says Man believes he sees Virg...
Nothing To Do With Arbroa...

A California man says he can see the image of the Virgin Mary in his leg after a motorcycle accident. Marc Lipton said he was riding his motorcycle when he lost control and slid about 50 feet along the road. Lipton said he wasn't wearing leather cha...

fifth sentencepost | page 123find | next three | three sentencestag | sentencestag five Tags
Luke's Blog

I'm not a great fan of tags, the online equivalent of chain letters, but it seems rude to ignore them:Jane Griffiths (whose views on Reading Labour Party I definitely don't endorse before anyone asks, being a former colleague of her deselection neme...

soap awards | british soap | new report | corrie | coronation street Results from the British ...
Coronation Street Blog

The British Soap Awards take place on Saturday night, 3rd May, in London. Results will be announced immediately after the show.Any self-respecting Coronation Street fan would hope that the official Corrie site will be the first to have the results o...

helmand | spectacle later | forces' spectacle | attend forces' | simon davison 'Lost' war heroes to be r...
"ROGUE GUNNER"

The mystery surrounding the whereabouts of two members of a World War II bomber crew who went missing during a bombing raid more than 60 years ago has finally been solved. Read It Here RIP© Mack (RG) The thoughts of a Falklands War Veteran.Rogue_gun...

real life | life bambi | media comedy | facebloke social | bbc 3's About.me 2008 version
Perfect Path

There’s nothing like an extended period of underemployment to get you thinking about who you are, what you’ve done and what you want to do. I also recognise that I’ve met an awful lot of new (to me) people in the last year or so, ...

piece written | british soldier | conflict hits | afghanistan conflict | 95th british Public Speaking to a TV A...
Corporate Presenter

London, UKMany of you would have seen the City Salute which was presented by Jeremy Clarkson and broadcast on BBC One earlier this evening. During the hour long programme, actor Ross Kemp narrated a piece written by Field Marshall The Viscount Slim...

prime minister | officially sworn | office italian | silvio berlusconi | minister silvio Place your bets, ladies a...
EU Referendum

The time has come for everyone to start placing their bets on who is going to be the “EU President” or, to be quite precise, the President of the European Council. The job is being set up by the Constitutional Reform Lisbon Treaty and ought to start...

josef fritzl | rape dating | old fritzl | fritzl sex | father josef Blame the Press
An Englishman's Castle

Josef Fritzl: I deserve credit, I'm no monster' - Telegraph Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man who fathered seven children with his daughter while keeping her imprisoned in his cellar, has complained of receiving a bad press and not being given credit...

anyone know | wales accounted | labour's 331 | 331 losses | 133 labour's Carpe Diem
THE OUTSIDER

I went to YSU and fucked around with registration and shit. The money people said I can only get half the year paid for by the pell grant. I make 11,000 a year, that's all THE MAN wants to cover. I will have to take out more loans.I'm going to go ba...

bit sinister | don't think | slate's explainer | explainer answers | sweeps' festival Sweeps' festival
Raedwald

We popped into Rochester yesterday at the end of the weekend to catch the tail-end of the Sweeps' Festival - a glorious three-day Kentish bacchanalia. The various competing troupes or tribes of sweeps - and there are many - are like Morris Men. Exc...