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Why did Paddy Ashdown need bodyguards in Cambridge yesterday?
Doesn't Gordon Brown think he has enough talented members in his own party to serve in a Cabinet? Interestingly, Nick Robinson's blog on this subject has a comment from a Cambridge blogger about Paddy Ashdown's visit to the university city yesterday - with bodyguards...
The missing – Etan Patz
Etan Patz's disappearance on 25 May 1979 is the is the oldest open missing child case in New York City's history. Six-year-old Etan had grabbed his school books and given his mother a goodbye kiss before leaving to catch the bus to school. He was never seen...
The end of my frustration…
I have had a very difficult couple of days publishing posts on my blog using Windows Live Writer. Microsoft picked up on it instantly after I wrote about it earlier today and discovered that a block had been created by the server that hosts my website for...
Should BlackBerrys be banned in Parliament?
Well I'm sorry if MPs get bored sitting in Parliament. And I'm disappointed to hear that to help them through this ordeal, they could be allowed to take their BlackBerrys in to the most hallowed chamber in the land to help them pass the time. I've never used one of...
An invite to my birthday party
I see that David Miliband becomes the first minister to enter Second Life as an avatar to promote a carbon calculator. I am thinking of joining him there. According to the erudite Tom Paine, there is an airship in Second Life named after me. Although I regret that it...
My Windows Live Writer problem
I use Windows Live Writer to write my posts and it has always been brilliant. But yesterday it mysteriously refused to publish them, though I managed to write my missing post ok. It is so bizarre and infuriating. I spent ages trying to sort it out, but a message...
Time for Malta to acknowledge divorce
I had no idea that Malta was the only country in the European Union which banned divorce, though allowed marriages to be annulled. I caught the tail end of a radio interview about this yesterday, a young woman was saying how she was annulling her marriage on the...
Let’s live dangerously and eat eggs for breakfast
I'm not going to crack any yokes about the latest loony advert ban about going to work on an egg on the grounds that it does not promote a balanced diet. If only kids did eat that healthily for breakfast, cereals are full of so much sugar. And my husband has been...
The missing – Stepha Henry
I came across a blog post recently which expressed concern that less publicity was given to the disappearance of young black people. Janice Lowery has started a site to help give these missing children publicity. One of the cases she highlights is that...