Presque vu XXXXI

27th January 2008 with 1 Comment

Tony Blair made a 35 minute speech to 400 millionaire bankers in Las Vegas last week. The ex-prime minister’s fee for the event was £125,000. He urged his audience to support the policies of George Bush’s republican world view. Allegedly the Clinton’s were not too chuffed.
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The Tom Cruise indoctrination video that scientology tried to suppress [...]

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I Couldn’t Bring Myself To Care About

  • Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography
  • Spider-Man and his wife
  • The iphone
  • Atonement
  • The evidence of Paul Burrell, Princess Diana’s former butler
  • Free newspapers on the subways
  • George Michael’s (access-all-areas) autobiography

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Presque vu XXI

9th September 2007 with 4 Comments

Thirteen reasons why you should read Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys.
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Neocons on a cruise. Johann Hari, in The Independent, sets sail with America’s swashbuckling neocons:
From time to time, National Review – the bible of American conservatism – organises a cruise for its readers. I paid $1,200 to join them. The rules I imposed on [...]

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