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Boycott Halal
Burger King Arrives in South Africa The above article made me spit. Increasingly halal foods are being forced upon us without our knowledge and certainly without our having requested them. By us, I...
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Idolatrine
Evangelical Protestantism is on the rise in South and Central American countries. This part of the globe has historically been a catholic stronghold in matters of faith but the flock are turning....
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By any other name
Seein’ as ‘ow my youngest is due to add Number Nine to the Janus clan in the Autumn, I feel qualified to comment on the theme of naming children, further aroused by the Beeb:...
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Legendary lunches
The DT today has an article about sandwiches - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/recipes/10101267/Sandwiches-Leave-mine-open.html - which of course pressed my Viking button. Because the thing it...
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15 minutes with Backside, 1
I see that schools are now prohibiting girls from wearing skirts, insisting on trousers just like the boys wear. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-23522499 Well, it was never an...
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Down in the forest……
Something stirred. So faint that I scarcely heard, But the forest leapt at the sound, Like a good ship homeward bound. Down in the forest something stirred, It was only the song of a bird. But it was...
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By the way….
…….where’s Christina these days? We need her take on matters earthly and sublime, innit?
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The power of the people
Just occasionally the Great British Public’s voice is heard above the political and diplomatic babble. We don’t want to fire another shot from the hip at another Arab despot whose behaviour we can’t...
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Who’s missing?
The Beeb’s having a party. 100 women chatting about women (no surprise there then). http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-24579511 But soft! Nobody from Argentina, Spain or Afghanistan? Or the US of A? Or...
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Help me out here
Backside has just thrown a hissy fit about British politicians and Royalty celebrating the Hindu festival of Diwali. Now being much more reasonable than my other half, I suppose the Neasden temple...
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Seasonal songs we, er, dislike
Auntie Beeb reports that Costa Coffee has banned a song from its outlets, by popular demand. It’s the unctuous Cliff’s ‘Mistletoe and Wine’. So come on, cherished revellers, which songs would you ban...
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A Danish icon still revered
Tycho Brahe, astronomer, whose birthday it is today (1546) was born in Scania, then part of Denmark, now part of Sweden. He, like Helle Kinnock, a modern-day luminary, maintained that the sun revolved...
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Class work
Good old Downton Abbey – last year’s story – has reached the screens in Denmark, which allegedly can’t afford the latest episodes. So I’m reminded once more of the complexities of the British class...
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Copacabana Dreams
The left footers really should know better. Don’t they read the good book? Graven images aren’t allowed. God is not happy. After trying to hold his temper and count to, I don’t know, a virgintillion...
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Halal, kosher and country fun
Denmark has banned the killing of animals for food while conscious. So, as you would expect, I would add animals killed for ‘sport’ (which is excused as ‘culling’ for food) because: a) most hunters...
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Tosser
Shrove Tuesday is part of Britain’s eccentric tradition of ‘sod the origins, enjoy the fun!’ Countries with strong RC connections go in for ‘mardi gras-type’ festivals; Germans have converted it to a...
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Life is a game for winners
Chicharito alias Little Pea alias Javier Hernandez finds it necessary to genuflect and mouth his mantras on the centre spot whenever he starts for Man Utd. Many other players touch the pitch and...
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ira furor brevis est
Please excuse my Latin but the execrable Martin McGuinness is back in the news. But luckily for those of a sound mind, Lord (Norman) Tebbit is still around to remind us that the IRA is not ‘but a brief...
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The great escape
My cherished reader will recall I have mentioned this before, so please forgive me for this. What?! Forgive me? What exactly does that mean, in old money? Well, a dictionary says it means ” stop...
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