Private Eye just gave the most damning review to an anthology of chick lit called In Bed With, which is supposed to be all about sex. “No crass wordplay or creamy cliche goes away unbludgeoned. Bushes get trimmed, the word ‘come’ is mutilated beyond recognition, chests are always ample and curves glorious.” I thought, hmm, […]
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SPOILER ALERT Let us look through a glass darkly and imagine a world where this could happen. You’re in a pressure cooker with disaster staring you in the face, your dreams dashed, no future, social meltdown. The foreigners in your midst who were once your friends, partners, workmates are now the enemy and have to
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SPOILER ALERT Let us look through a glass darkly and imagine a world where this could happen. You’re in a pressure cooker with disaster staring you in the face, your dreams dashed, no future, social meltdown. The foreigners in your midst who were once your friends, partners, workmates are now the enemy and have to
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The street, ma-a-an! This is the view from the front door of my north London flat this morning. It snowed yesterday, it snowed through the night and today it’s still snowing. Such a thick covering of snow is unusual for the capital city, London being far enough south and generating enough heat to melt normal
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I learn from Jon Swift that every February 3rd, the bloggerati enjoy a tradition dating back to neolithic times, where we celebrate the little guy and guyess in the Big Blogosphere with Blogroll Amnesty Day. Lo, about the time that fire was invented, when mobile phones were the size of a brick (completely wrecking the
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Two conflicting perspectives at the heart of the wildcat strikes spreading across Britain threaten to turn this conflict into a xenophobic safety valve for corporate business interests as we face global economic meltdown. The Italian company is importing cheap labour from abroad to the exclusion of local workers, pitting worker against worker in a classic
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