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The missing – Charlene Downes
Charlene Downes, 14, kissed and waved goodbye to her mother in Blackpool town centre in November, 2003 and has never been seen since. Charlene was known to have been among a number of young white girls who congregated around a district of Asian fast-food shops in the...
The Gordon Brown meme
I have been tagged by Nadine Dorries on the things Gordon Brown should be: Proud of: His wife and family His thick skin Apologise for: His policies which resulted in the poorest fifth of households comparatively paying more tax and receiving a lower share of benefits...
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...