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And he’s OUT!!!

May 12, 2010 – 3:27 am

Labour’s Gordon Brown has resigned as UK prime minister after three years. Mr Brown has officially tendered his resignation to the Queen at Buckingham Palace, and recommended Conservative leader David Cameron succeed him. Speaking alongside his wife Sarah outside No 10 Downing Street, he said the job had been “a privilege” and wished his successor [...]

By DeusExMacintosh | Also posted in Britain, Funnies, Politics, Society | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (23)

Brown-man Speaks With Forked Tongue

April 29, 2010 – 3:14 am

Gordon Brown has said he is “mortified” after being caught on microphone describing a voter he had just spoken to in Rochdale as a “bigoted woman”. Gillian Duffy, 65, had challenged him on issues including immigration. As he got into his car, he was still wearing a broadcast microphone and was heard to say “that [...]

By DeusExMacintosh | Also posted in Britain, Funnies, Immigration, Politics | Tagged , , , , | Comments (32)

All’s fair in love and literature?

April 22, 2010 – 9:39 pm

“Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.” (Holbrook Jackson, The Anatomy of Bibliomania) How can one judge how much one loves a book when one also loves the author? This question has been raised by the recent debacle in which an anonymous [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Academia, Books, England, History, Internet, Law, Literature, Society | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (17)

Hoist by their own petard

April 18, 2010 – 2:07 pm

I think it’s fair to say that Heath G and I share an obsession with fantastically unsuccessful defamation actions that result in the very opposite outcome to that which the plaintiff sought to achieve. At Minimal State, Heath has a post about the best one yet, involving a hapless company named T & J Towing: [...]

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Playing with fire

April 17, 2010 – 10:28 am

Here in Victoria, the heat has been on former Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Christine Nixon and her performance during the Black Saturday bushfires on 7 February last year. 174 people were killed and many houses were lost. Nixon retired from the post in mid-2009 to become head of the Victorian Bushfire Recovery and Construction Authority. [...]

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Be there, or be the democratic deficit!*

April 15, 2010 – 9:35 pm

Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg are preparing to make political history by taking part in Britain’s first ever prime ministerial TV debate. The party leaders have been rehearsing intensively for the 90-minute US-style live broadcast, in which every word and gesture will be analysed. They will answer questions chosen by the audience and [...]

By DeusExMacintosh | Also posted in England, Funnies, Northern Ireland, Politics, Society, Wales, scotland | Tagged , , , | Comments (5)

Break a leg!

April 9, 2010 – 5:41 pm

Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, has broken her left leg while hill-walking in Scotland, Clarence House has said. The duchess, 62, suffered a twisted fracture of her left fibula when she fell on Wednesday. Clarence House said although doctors advised her not to put any weight on the leg, she would continue to carry out [...]

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Ricky Martin comes out!

March 31, 2010 – 7:01 pm

Puerto Rican pop star Ricky Martin has announced he is gay, ending years of speculation over his sexuality. Martin, who has sold more than 60 million albums, said in a statement on his website he was “proud to say” he was “a fortunate homosexual man”. He added that he had kept his sexuality hidden because [...]

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Only a ginger…

March 30, 2010 – 5:08 pm

I’ve mentioned before that I used to have that kind of hair I think of as “Scots colour”, which is a mix of red, brown and blonde. My husband has reddish-brown hair too. When I fell pregnant with my daughter, suddenly all the red in my hair vanished. I knew exactly to whom it had [...]

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Cyberbullying and the law

March 25, 2010 – 11:47 am

[Cross posted at Fortnightly Review, the new online journal founded by IPRIA and the CMCL at the University of Melbourne. Please check out Fortnightly Review - it's well worth a look.] 1. CYBER-BULLYING Cyber-bullying in Australia – Facebook It’s not only Lara Bingle and other celebrities who have to worry about cyber-bullying, “sexting” and how [...]

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