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Waking in the night, the coroner went outside to the garden and taking his easement, heard shouts and uproar nearby. Finishing his business, he took his sword and went out to the way in front, where he found Adam and the tippler roused from their beds by the agitation. It was the dark time of [...]
The Hari Kunzru interview in The Guardian:
What advice would you give to new writers?
Have the strength to (metaphorically) kill your babies: just because you spent a long time on something, that doesn’t make it any good.
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The Independent has interviews with American troops in Iraq:
“I just remember thinking, ‘I just brought terror to someone under the [...]
Tony Blair, British Prime Minister, left Downing Street yesterday after a farewell world tour and will now, no doubt, join the international lecture circuit where he will be offered bags of gold for his memoirs.
In the Times Online site, Peter Stothard assesses the man’s legacy in as fair a way as possible.
We all know enough about his disastrous foreign policies, slavishly following the lead of the Bush gang in the USA, committing us to violence and needless bloodshed abroad and attracting increasing terrorist activities at home, but his domestic policies and their results are less widely publicised:
His final marks at home?
Anyone with a liberal social agenda, the money to keep their children out of state schools, a modest preparedness for home rule in Scotland and Wales, the need for cheap immigrant labor and the liking to live in a famous country under a famous leader has felt five-ways blessed.
Anyone who hoped for a transformation in schools, a sensibility to the countryside, civil liberty, tradition and a better sense of urban safety feels five-ways robbed.
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I’m posting this a little later than usual because I got caught up watching Loose Change - Second Edition, a documentary about 9-11. You can watch it too, by following this link: http://www.loosechange911.com/
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Watch it if you are into Conspiracy Theory.
Watch it if you don’t like Conspiracy Theory.
But if you just want something to think about, [...]
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