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Cycle ride: Thames Path blackberry harvest, 31 August 2013 27 Aug 2013 | 05:58 pm
Where: Thames Path blackberry harvest When: Saturday 31 August 2013 Meet: 10:00 @ Cutty Sark Gardens, SE10 9LW I realise that Anthony Austin of Greenwich Cyclists organised led a blackberry picking ri...
On Chelsea Manning 23 Aug 2013 | 06:45 am
Chelsea Manning. That’s how it is; that’s who she is. Now. A hero, flawed like every other, but no less a hero. Should it be heroine? Does it matter? Probably not. Thank you Chelsea, for your service.
Locals rally around Greenwich and Woolwich foot tunnels 22 Aug 2013 | 03:06 am
The following is a press release distributed by me today on behalf of a new community group in southeast and east London. For more than a century the people of London have crossed the River Thames thr...
English badgers to seek asylum in Wales 21 Aug 2013 | 08:38 pm
Or rather they will, if they have any sense.
Farewell to India’s scourge of the godmen 21 Aug 2013 | 03:35 pm
Narendra Dabholkar was a popular man in Pune. This much-loved social activist was known internationally as well as his native Maharashtra as a sharp critic of superstitious religion, having founded th...
David in no-win situation with Goliath 20 Aug 2013 | 03:30 am
A latter-day David may have been denied his Miranda rights, but one has to ask why the non-journalist partner of Guardian investigator Glenn Greenwald was used as an international document courier, wi...
It probably isn’t acid that turns people into casualties 20 Aug 2013 | 02:21 am
We shall have to blame society or some other fanciful notion rather than psychedelics for drug-induced madness. Or at least new research has shown that the use of hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD and ...
Cycle ride: Greenwich to Richmond Park (aka Fenton’s Fancy) 13 Aug 2013 | 03:28 pm
Where: Greenwich to Richmond Park (aka Fenton’s Fancy) When: Saturday 17 August 2013 Meet: 10:00 @ General Wolfe statue in Greenwich Park (by the Observatory entrance) Owing to Dog & Bell Commissar an...
Penis fixation 8 Aug 2013 | 04:26 am
In January of this year I described Grauniad scribbler Suzanne Moore as “a cunt with a penis fixation”. At the time I was being sarcastic, reacting with considerable anger and emotion to Moore’s hatre...
A mythical conspiracy results in a very real human tragedy 7 Aug 2013 | 07:25 pm
Show trials, the likes of which have not been seen since Joseph Stalin set about creating the perfect totalitarian society, have ended with Turkish journalists handed prison sentences of 30 years and ...