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Dave Brown The Independent 9 January 2007
US President George W. Bush Related > Iraq War
Springs Daily Telegraph 4.9.2005 Katrina rains down calamity… so we, of course, look for a scapegoat By Niall Ferguson (Filed: 04/09/2005) Two hundred and fifty years ago, on November 1, 1755, the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, was flattened by an earthquake that killed thousands of its inhabitants. Like the hurricane that inundated New Orleans last week, the calamity inspired not only awe at the power of nature and sympathy for the helpless victims, but also all kinds of moral commentary.
None was more profound than that of the French philosopher Voltaire. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2005/09/04/do0402.xml
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Lord of the Lies
JUNE 9, 2016 The New York Times Timothy Egan
Earlier this month, the world’s most battle-scarred cable news network did something extraordinary in this year of vaporous political contrails. While Donald Trump was delivering one of his easily debunked lies, CNN fact-checked him — in near real time at the bottom of the screen. Lord of the
Lies,
Let slip the blogs of war ...
New plays inspired by online diaries
Sunday August 6, 2006 Let slip the
blogs of war ..., O, 6.8.2006,
The writing on the wall
The biggest loser of the Commonwealth games, says graffiti artist Banksy, is Melbourne's street art scene - and London could be next for the whitewash
Friday March 24, 2006 The Guardian
Melbourne is the proud capital of street painting with stencils. Its large, colonial-era walls and labyrinth of back alleys drip with graffiti that is more diverse and original than any other city in the world. Well, that was until a few weeks ago, when preparations for the Commonwealth games brought a tidal wave of grey paint, obliterating years of unique and vibrant culture overnight. This may seem like no great tragedy to readers of the Daily Mail, but Melbourne's graffiti scene is a key factor in its status as the continent's hothouse of creativity and wilful individualism. The
writing on the wall, G, 24.3.2006,
How long will Louisiana's huddled masses have to wait for shelter?
Sunday September 4, 2005
The famous line from the poem chiselled into the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty - 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free' - has never been more poignant. A refugee crisis unprecedented in America's history is unfolding across its southern states.
Up to a million people need shelter. For now, their homes are sports stadia in
Texas, college dormitories in Mississippi, churches, schools, hotels, community
centres and private homes.
How long will
Louisiana's huddled masses have to wait for shelter?,
Justice at last?
In August 1955 the body of 14-year-old Emmett Till was recovered from a river in Mississippi. A month later, two white men were acquitted of his murder by an all white jury, causing an outcry that helped kick-start the US civil rights movement. Fifty years on, the case is finally being reopened. Gary Younge reports
Headline
and sub, G, 6.6.2005,
Egypt must let its people go
The Mubarak regime's resistance to scrutiny of the forthcoming presidential election shows how much Egypt has to learn about democracy, writes Brian Whitaker
Headline and §1,
G, 16.5.2005,
The street we're in
We love and loathe identikit shopping centres. What's to be done?
Headline and sug, O, 24.10.2004,
A very brief history of time
There are some very good artists in Tate Modern's new film and video show. Shame we don't get to see more of them, writes Adrian Searle
Headline and sub,
G, 7.10.2004,
Steam of consciousness
There's no better remedy for the end-of-summer blues than jumping out of a sauna into your very own lake, as Patrick Barkham discovers on a short break in Finland
Headline, G, 14.8.2004,
Every move you make
David Giles clips a pedometer to his belt and enters the strangely obsessive world of the step-counter
Headline and sub, G,
7.7.2004,
Ticket to ride
What do rock stars care about these days? How much do they really know about music? And why do so many band names begin with 'The'? To find out, we took the G2 bus - amply stocked with vodka, bourbon and toilet paper - to Glastonbury and invited them aboard. Simon Hattenstone reports.
Headline and sub, G,
28.6.2004,
Biometrics - great hope for world security or triumph for Big Brother?
British police ready to link up to databases of US intelligence
Headline and sub, G, 18.6.2004,
Pushing hard in the Big Easy
In the first of a series of dispatches from New Orleans, Matthew Wells meets Republican campaigners in America's heartland
Headline and sub,
G, 16.6.2004,
Hey, Dr Tambourine Man
Headline, G, 16.6.2004,
This way for Carey Street
For how much
longer will we be allowed
Headline and sub,
O, 13.6.2004,
Sexism and the City: boss's £7m case begins
Investment bank's European manager was 'bullied and belittled' - and told to serve drinks
Headline and sub, G,9.6.2004,
Welcome to America
When writer Elena Lappin flew to LA, she dreamed of a sunkissed, laid-back city. But that was before airport officials decided to detain her as a threat to security ...
Headline and sub, G,
5.6.2004,
Till death do us join
Charles may be an old man before he feels free to marry Camilla
Headline and sub, G, 5.6.2004,
Apathy in the UK
The main parties at Leeds student union are determined to get their vote out in next week's elections, but with young people's scepticism about politics at an all-time high, they are facing a tough challenge, writes Polly Curtis
Headline and sub, G,
4.6.2004,
Catch-22 revisited
The world has focused on US soldiers' abuse of Iraqi prisoners. But the leaked inquiry reveals incompetence worthy of Joseph Heller's novel
Headline, G, 28.5.2004,
Sodom and Begorrah: case of the crown jewels, the courtiers and a gay cover-up
It all happened in the Ireland of 1907, when Edward VII went ballistic after somebody stole the Irish Crown Jewels from Dublin Castle. The extraordinary details of the theft, and the facts that the jewels have never been recovered and the culprits never found, have given rise to a rich crop of theories about what really happened. (...) Shackleton, Vicars' assistant, remains the prime suspect. He was one of a number of homosexual residents and employees at the castle, some of whom had colourful pasts. There were said to be drunken parties on the premises, with decades of rumours of "unnatural vice" going on behind its well-guarded walls. One nationalist politician intent on emphasising British corruption, referred to it as "Sodom and Begorrah". The fact that Shackleton was a friend of the Duke of Argyll is one reason George VII may have been his protector. Certainly someone up there liked Shackleton: one official report was generally inconclusive but made a point of declaring his innocence.
Headline, I, 12.11.2003,
Torry Horror: Unite of the Living dead
Party comes together to give crown to Howard without vote
Headline / sub, frontpage,
DMi, 30.10.2003,
What the butler (and a few other people) knows but you don't
Once, newspapers told you what was going on in the world. But now, writes Blake Morrison, you need the skills of a detective to piece together the hints and clues behind those media 'secrets'
Headline / sub, G, 28.10.2003,
What the butler sold
No great rush but Diana book sale is big on Japanese TV
Headline / sub, G, 28.10.2003,
A tale of two state schools
Oliver Letwin, the shadow Home Secretary, would rather beg than let his children go to his local comprehensive in south London. But there's another one in his Dorset constituency to which he would at least 'consider' sending them. Is he right to make such a distinction - or merely prejudiced? We sent two writers to report from Lilian Baylis School and Beaminster School Headline
/ sub, I, 17.10.2003,
The talented Mister Ramsay
He's Britain's most successful - and most controversial - chef. But just what is it that makes Gordon Ramsay tick? Interview by John Walsh
Headline
/ sub, I, 12.10.2003,
Dead man talking
Loads of Conservative MPs want rid of Iain Duncan Smith - so long as someone else does the deed for them
Headline / subheadline, O,
12.10.2003,
Bob almighty
Musician, Third World campaigner, millionaire businessman and now Britain's favourite 'mum'... pinning down Bob the Gob can be tricky. But behind Geldof's relentless drive is a palpable fear of poverty and loneliness, as Barbara Ellen discovers
Headline / subheadline,
O, 12.10.2003,
Homeless RSC faces winter of discontent
London will have to endure its first winter in more than 40 years without the Royal Shakespeare Company if it fails to find a West End home by the end of the week.
Headline and §1, G, 8.10.2003,
The man is not for turning
· Thatcher echo in claim: 'I've not got a reverse gear' · No regrets, no apologies over the war in Iraq · Promise of biggest-ever policy consultation
Headline, G, 1.10.2003,
Abbey National yesterday promised a brave new world for its 18m customers as it unveiled a long-awaited relaunch and pledged to "turn banking on its head". Abbey closes its brolly on jargon, DT, 25.9.2003.
The National Association of Health Food Stores claims that as many as three-quarters of its members could go out of business. The writing is on the wall for small British supplement companies, which will be forced to reformulate entire ranges and invest massively in applying for new product licences.
Health supplements: R.I.P.,
Look back in hunger
Headline,
O, 14.9.2003,
Clinton bows out with a bang, not a whimper
Headline, G, 15.8.2000,
Yet why do tourists, Spanish and foreign alike, visiting Frigiliana insist on their divine right to thunder down the narrow streets, some no more than six foot wide, in big fat four-wheel-drives, Mercs and eight-seater people carriers, especially since the local council provides a car park at the entrance to the village? T.S. Eliot got it wrong after all. The world will not end with either a bang or a whimper but rather the endless wail of a car alarm shrieking while the planet melts into oblivion.
Seeking the sun on Costa
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