Month: February 2009
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It’s a sell out but we can all still go to the Convention on Modern Liberty
Are human rights at risk? Inside today’s Guardian Jack Straw argues that Britain is the asylum seekers’ country of choice because people still have more rights and protection here than anywhere else. Oh yes? On the front page of the paper there is another article which gives a clue as to why tomorrow’s Convention on…
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Green tax, blue motion, red squirrel
Red squirrel, Blue Motion, what’s the connection? Well there’s a nice surprise. I just paid my car tax online and it turned out to be a pleasant experience. Not only because a dinky little car guides you along each stage of the journey on the DVLA website but at the end of it the bill…
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Lost World replaced
The next instant it was gone – and so was our dinner. Ed Malone in the Lost World Hot foot in the snow to St Andrew Square to check poetry stakes are still in place. So far so good, though last week I obviously blogged too soon. The Lost World vanished from the garden within…
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Planting poetry and other subversive thoughts
On the No 8 bus this morning I peered anxiously out of the window as we passed St Andrew Square. Ever since I helped to plant poetry in the garden for the Lost World Read the weather seems to be doing its best to blow the whole lot to the kingdom of Fife. Or some…