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For people in Gaza, the war with Israel has made a simple phone call anything but
March 3, 2024 NPR
Chris Riddell
editorial cartoon
Trident: an illustrated guide to renewing Britain's nuclear deterrent G Sunday 17 January 2016 00.05 GMT
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2016/jan/17/
the nuts and bolts of N
https://www.npr.org/2019/06/23/
unchartered territory USA
https://www.npr.org/2022/02/24/
with no strings attached USA
https://www.npr.org/2021/05/14/
out of the blue USA
https://www.npr.org/2019/06/23/
a drop In the bucket USA
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/24/
bear the brunt of N UK
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/may/16/
cost a mint USA
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/11/14/
so-called USA
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/03/07/
strike a chord USA
http://www.npr.org/2017/01/14/
Americans from all walks of life USA
http://www.npr.org/2017/01/14/
everyone from all walks of life USA
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/02/08/
it was a close call USA
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/03/12/
be a shadow of her / his / its former self USA
http://www.npr.org/2017/01/14/
be in the eye of the beholder USA
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/03/07/
beauty is in the eye of the beholder UK / USA
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2006/feb/25/
Mike Luckovich political cartoon GoComics December 06, 2016 https://www.gocomics.com/mikeluckovich/2016/12/06
justice is blind USA
https://www.gocomics.com/mikeluckovich/2016/12/06
turn a blind eye topreposition + N USA
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/06/
It was hell on Earth USA
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/28/
all hell is breaking loose USA
http://www.npr.org/2017/09/14/
Highway to Hell is the sixth studio album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC, released on 27 July 1979.
It was the last album featuring lead singer Bon Scott, who would die early the following year on 19 February 1980.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_to_Hell - 6 November 2022
be on a highway to hell UK
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/06/
The devil's in the details USA
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/09/
but here's the catch USA
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/03/12/
but there's a catch USA
http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/02/15/
someone has to cry uncle USA
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/03/12/
there's the rub / here's the rub USA
http://www.npr.org/2016/11/12/
http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/03/15/
http://www.npr.org/2016/03/11/
It was all swept under the rug. USA
http://www.npr.org/2017/01/06/
(it) does not pull any punches about N USA
http://www.npr.org/2017/02/04/
be the babe in the woods USA
http://www.npr.org/2016/03/17/
go cold turkey USA
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/03/15/
quit Facebook and Twitter cold turkey UK
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/18/
pigs in a blanket USA
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/09/
the horse is out of the barn (on that) USA
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/09/
be the last straw UK
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/08/
holy smoke USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/02/
hit rock bottom USA
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/04/22/
I should have known better USA
http://www.npr.org/2016/03/02/
walk a fine line USA
http://www.npr.org/2016/08/19/
bad blood USA
http://www.npr.org/2016/03/10/
be at my wits' end USA
http://www.npr.org/2016/03/02/
give a tip of the hat USA
http://www.npr.org/2016/03/12/
It is inclusive to the T, yes. USA
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/02/08/
have a field day USA
http://www.npr.org/2017/02/16/
call it a day USA
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/18/
a kick in the teeth UK
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/sep/04/
play hardball USA
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/15/
idiom UK
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/09/
Broom Hilda by Russell Myers GoComics August 29, 2023 https://www.gocomics.com/broomhilda/2023/08/29
idiom > wild horses couldn't drag me away from N
https://www.gocomics.com/broomhilda/2023/08/29
phrase USA
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/09/
https://www.npr.org/2021/04/09/
expression USA
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/09/
wishful thinking UK
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/05/
against the odds UK
https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2022/jul/07/
Let me cut to the chase
Doonesbury By Garry Trudeau GoComics August 28, 2011 http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2011/08/28
As speaker of the house, Obamacare is in my 'crosshairs'!
Obamacare is 'dead meat'!
Obamacare will be 'pushing up daisies'!
Bill Day political cartoon Tennessee Cagle 20 January 2011
Obamacare = The Affordable Care Act, President Obama's heath care reform
The Guardian p. 29 26 January 2009 http://digital.guardian.co.uk/guardian/2009/01/26/pdfs/gdn_090126_ber_29_21768824.pdf
The Guardian p. 35 28 February 2007
The Guardian p. 38 10 February 2007
The Guardian Review p. 20 17 March 2007
Let the Kids Learn Through Play
MAY 16, 2015 The New York Times By DAVID KOHN
TWENTY years ago, kids in preschool, kindergarten and even first and second grade spent much of their time playing: building with blocks, drawing or creating imaginary worlds, in their own heads or with classmates. But increasingly, these activities are being abandoned for the teacher-led, didactic instruction typically used in higher grades. In many schools, formal education now starts at age 4 or 5. Without this early start, the thinking goes, kids risk falling behind in crucial subjects such as reading and math, and may never catch up. The idea seems obvious: Starting sooner means learning more; the early bird catches the worm.
Let the Kids Learn Through Play,
As Good as It Gets?
December 31, 2011 The New York Times
The economy was weak in 2011, but it ended better than it started, with growth up from its lows and unemployment down from its highs. The question now is whether that progress will continue into 2012. We wish we could say yes, but unless policy makers are incredibly lucky or remarkably adept — certainly not the description that comes to mind when thinking of, say, Congress — the answer is no.
As Good as It Gets?,
Fashion world goes bananas over Prada's loud and lurid summer look
Italian fashion house's bold prints,
Friday 15 April 2011 19.53 BST Guardian.co.uk Simon Chilvers
Triple-decker brothel creepers, loud lurid stripes, cartoonish monkeys and super bold bananas – even by Prada's own unconventional standards, this year's spring/summer collection is considered one of the Italian fashion house's boldest ever. And the results have been equally striking. The collection, first shown in Milan last September, has, as of this week, appeared on a staggering 48 international magazine covers (Prada itself confirmed this figure after a fashion blogger put the figure at a mere 15), including British magazines Marie Claire, i-D and Pop, which featured Elton John wearing a banana-print shirt on its cover.
Fashion world goes
bananas over Prada's loud and lurid summer look,
Guarded Irish giving no hostages to fortune
Saturday March 05 2005 Independent.ie By David Kelly
A TIME to pause. While all around them an insatiable public is whirling with the giddy expectation of a feat last accomplished in the dim, distant past, the Irish rugby squad, temporarily on reprieve from the stifling realities of training camp, attempt to rein in a nation's insuperable optimism. This week offered a couple of days of what professional sportsmenquaintly term downtime. Yet how to escape when a nation expects? However, for the figures in the vanguard of what could be an historic Grand Slam, a palpable serenity marks their momentous footsteps. A confident, though not cocky, tone defines their marching tempo.
Guarded Irish giving no
hostages to fortune,
Using doom and gloom so people take climate change seriously doesn't work
The weather gods must be climate sceptics. Why else would they choose the start of Cancún to smother Europe in snow?
Remember that campaign Stop Climate Chaos? It was meant to scare the hell out of us with threats of heatwaves, droughts, rising tides… Now it just sounds like a Daily Mail headline castigating the government for not gritting the roads. It's bad enough getting gloomy at the glacial rate of progress over in Cancún. Now that's compounded by the sense that the public aren't – how shall we put it? – exactly with us on this one. My cab driver the other night summed it up: "What are they doing trying to stop this global warming, eh? Bring it on!" I didn't have the heart to disagree. And even if I did, my breath would have frozen on the window. So if all that leaves you searching for a silver lining in the snow clouds, here's one – this might just teach us, once and for all, that relying purely on apocalyptic doom and gloom to get people to take climate change seriously is a busted flush. First, it clearly doesn't work. Witness my cabbie. Second, it plays straight into the hands of people who argue that we can't tackle carbon emissions without neglecting other pressing human needs. People like Fred Palmer, the "senior vice president" (I've yet to meet a junior one) of US coal giant, Peabody Energy.
Using doom and gloom
Life on the waiting list: the aftermath
Things were touch and go
James Hipwell
Life on the waiting
list: the aftermath, G, 13.10.2010,
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/oct/13/
New Facebook privacy settings are 'a red herring', say activists
Change in how settings work on Facebook
Thursday 27 May 2010
Privacy groups gave a half-hearted welcome to Facebook's announcement on Wednesday night that it would roll out new, simplified privacy settings to its 450 million users in the next few weeks. The UK group Privacy International reacted with "disappointment and frustration", saying that "the latest changes merely correct some of the most unacceptable privacy settings on the site. Very little has changed in terms of the overall privacy challenge that Facebook and its users need to navigate."
New Facebook privacy
settings are 'a red herring', say activists,
Slow growth of UK economy is likely to be as good as it gets
Official figures show recession
Monday 12 July 2010
On the face of it, today's official bulletin on the state of the economy was a bit of a damp squib. The delay in publishing the third estimate of growth in the first three months of 2010 had raised speculation that the Office for National Statistics might have a big growth revision up its sleeve, but in the end expansion was left unchanged at 0.3%.
Slow growth of UK economy is likely to be as good as it gets,
Preparing to Sell E-Books, Google Takes on Amazon
June 1, 2009
Google appears to be throwing down the gauntlet in the e-book market. In discussions with publishers at the annual BookExpo convention in New York over the weekend, Google signaled its intent to introduce a program by that would enable publishers to sell digital versions of their newest books direct to consumers through Google. The move would pit Google against Amazon.com, which is seeking to control the e-book market with the versions it sells for its Kindle reading device.
Preparing
to Sell E-Books, Google Takes on Amazon, NYT, 1.6.2009,
John Higgins joins the greats with third world title
• Higgins beats Murphy 18-9 in final • Third title follows wins in 1998 and 2007
Monday 4 May 2009 could determine his place in snooker's pantheon, tonight converted his 11–5 first-day lead over Shaun Murphy into the 18–9 win which gave him his third world title. Apart from Higgins, only Mark Williams (twice), Ronnie O'Sullivan (three times), Steve Davis (six) and Stephen Hendry (seven) have lifted aloft the 82-year-old trophy more than once on the game's most famous stage. "I am over the moon," said Higgins. "I don't know what to say. It's brilliant. To be classed with someone like Ronnie [O'Sullivan], it's an unbelievable honour.
John Higgins joins the
greats with third world title,
Plan for third Heathrow runway is white elephant, professor warns
Wednesday July 30 2008
Government plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport were branded a white elephant yesterday by the former chief scientific adviser Professor Sir David King. King suggested that government plans to expand British airport capacity were both short-sighted and economically unsound. In an interview for the Ecologist Film Unit, he said: "I'm looking at this from a marketing point of view - if we're moving towards decarbonising our economy this must mean that alternative means of transport, land transport, will be favoured over air transport. "This must mean that by pricing carbon dioxide, by putting fuel tax on aviation fuel as well (which is the British government position), that we will drive people toward land-based travel rather than air, and investments in new runways will turn out to be white elephants." Sir David has previously described climate change as "a far greater threat even than global terrorism". Plan for third Heathrow runway is white elephant, professor warns,
G, 30.7.2008,
London delivers bloody nose as Galloway wins bitter fight
Friday May 6, 2005
London and the south-east delivered the heaviest blows to Labour, heightening the party's fears that it has been seriously damaged by the Iraq war and signs of its vote being eroded by the Tories and Lib Dems.
London delivers bloody
nose as Galloway wins bitter fight,
Two soldiers killed by friendly fire were teenagers
on their first tour of duty
Two of the British soldiers killed by an apparent 'friendly fire' air attack in Afghanistan on Thursday were 19-year-olds on their first tour of combat duty, it emerged yesterday. Privates Aaron James McClure, Robert Graham Foster and 21-year-old John Thrumble - all from the 1st Battalion, the Royal Anglian Regiment - died after US air support was called in during a fierce firefight with the Taliban, a Ministry of Defence statement said. It was accompanied by moving tributes from the men's friends, comrades and family and by an expression of 'profound sadness' from Defence Secretary Des Browne. The deaths triggered a sharp political row as the Conservatives attacked Gordon Brown for having demanded cuts in defence spending when he was Chancellor. In a strongly worded attack, shadow defence secretary Liam Fox said: As Chancellor, Gordon Brown never gave defence much priority and now the skies are black with chickens coming home to roost. (...)
Two soldiers killed by friendly fire
Ireland cry foul over Wilkinson fitness concerns
England fly-half to have final test this morning;
Saturday February 24, 2007 Guardian Robert Kitson in Dublin
Ireland's coach, Eddie O'Sullivan, has accused England of playing mind games over the state of Jonny Wilkinson's hamstring in the build-up to today's Six Nations match at Croke Park. The England management were refusing to confirm last night whether Wilkinson would start the game, and said he would undergo a final fitness test this morning. England have definitely lost their experienced left-wing, Jason Robinson, to a neck injury which will mean a first cap for Harlequins' Dave Strettle. As far as O'Sullivan is concerned there is no question of Wilkinson being ruled out after he practised his goalkicking yesterday morning without any ill-effects. "They're playing silly buggers and I'd be amazed if he doesn't play," said the coach, sceptical of England's insistence that the Newcastle fly-half's right hamstring is still being assessed. "If Brian O'Driscoll had a tight hamstring before a game, and he doesn't, the last people I'd tell would be the media. Think about it."
Ireland cry foul over
Wilkinson fitness concerns,
Proposals cut little ice with Labour critics
Thursday May 4, 2006 as critics in his own party and on the opposition benches rounded on his Commons statement and warned of the consequences if fresh cases involving foreign offenders came to light. The home secretary tried to sway Labour backbenchers with a deliberately controversial set of proposals to deport almost all foreigners convicted of imprisonable offences. But Marsha Singh, the MP for Bradford West, appeared to catch the mood of the parliamentary party by expressing anger that so many foreign offenders had been allowed to stay.
Proposals cut little ice with Labour critics,
Clarke battles to avoid Tory wooden spoon
Tuesday October 18, 2005 The Guardian Michael White and Tania Branigan
Kenneth Clarke joined a last-minute march away from the centre ground of politics yesterday as he struggled to avoid the wooden spoon in today's first ballot for the vacant Tory leadership, a result which would, in effect, end his ambitions in public life. With his rivals polishing their low-tax and anti-European credentials, the former chancellor, who is the 4/11 favourite to come last today, assured rightwing MPs attending a Westminster hustings that he too wants to cut back the size of the state. But he warned them it would be hard.
Clarke battles to avoid Tory wooden spoon,
In Overhaul of Social Security, Age Is the Elephant in the Room
WASHINGTON, June 11 - Americans turning 65 this year can expect to live, on average, until they are 83, four and a half years longer than the typical 65-year-old could expect in 1940. And government actuaries predict that American life spans will just keep growing. This demographic trend - by 2040, the average 65-year-old will live to about 85 - has major financial implications for Social Security and major political implications for the lawmakers now trying to overhaul the system. Policy experts across the political spectrum, who agree on little else, have told Congress in recent weeks that any effort to improve Social Security's long-term finances should somehow deal with this jump in life expectancy - by adjusting benefits, raising the retirement age, increasing taxes
or creating new incentives to work
longer. but most are also retiring earlier, and these demographic pressures will be heightened by the sheer size of the baby boom generation - 78 million strong - which will begin to retire in the next five years.
Headline and first
§§, NYT, 12.6.2005,
Clarke: back me as leader Former Chancellor throws his hat in the ring
Kenneth Clarke issued an open appeal to Conservative MPs to back him yesterday, as he signalled that he is ready to stand in the leadership contest this autumn.
Headline, sub and §1, O,
15.5.2005,
Are you a woman? Over 45? Having trouble finding fiction you can relate to? A new imprint, launched last week, claims to be the answer to your prayers. But it has inadvertently opened up a can of worms.
The middle way, G, §1,
3.5.2005,
Ex-CIA chief eats humble pie
A chastened former CIA director, George Tenet, says he regrets telling the White House that it was a "slam dunk" that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, an assertion that provided the Bush administration with its prime justification for the war.
Headline and §1, G,
29.4.2005,
Somalia talks run into sand
After a month of peace talks in Kenya between Somalia's feuding clans - described by western observers as the failed state's best chance for peace in over a decade - half the £6m funds donated for a six-month process have been spent, and the talks are deadlocked in a dispute over the number of delegates each clan is allowed.
Headline and §1, G,
18.11.2002,
Jerry Springer opera forced to face the music
The future of the musical Jerry Springer the Opera was hanging in the balance last night after its producers conceded that the company was losing money because of the fallout from a libel battle against the Daily Mail.
Headline and §1,
26.10.2004,
Navy satanist will not have to choose between devil and deep blue sea
On the homepage of the Church of Satan, beneath the central figure with devilish horns flanked by men in animal masks, is the catchline "We're looking for a few outstanding individuals." The homepage of the Royal Navy, meanwhile, asks if you've got the strength of mind to succeed. Horns and animal heads aside, the central messages are not dissimilar - they are on the lookout for a dedicated few. Which may explain why naval technician Chris Cranmer was attracted to both. It emerged yesterday that Ldg Hand Cranmer, 24, from Edinburgh, has been recognised by the Royal Navy as a Satanist and granted permission to practise ritual on board.
Headline and first
§§, I, 25.10.2004,
A charity's attempt to bring home the problems of substandard housing got off to a less than ideal start yesterday when London Underground banned it from launching its campaign at a tube station.
Tube
bars launch of Shelter 'non-ideal home show', G,
9.10.2004,
Internet sites such as Friends Reunited are unwittingly fuelling a surge in marital break-up as bored husbands and wives contact old flames, relationship counsellors warned yesterday as official figures showed divorce has reached a seven-year high. The marriage guidance body Relate said Britain's long working hours and ease of internet access provided increasing opportunity for a disaffected spouse to seek out an alternative relationship. It was easier than ever for one or both partners to find an excuse to stay late at the office - or log on to the internet to scan for romance - instead of sorting out the emotional problems of the marriage. Christine Northam, a spokeswoman for Relate, said: "A lot of people have a rosy impression of the first relationship they had at school or college. If they are feeling unhappy with their partner, they begin wondering what it would have been like if they'd stayed with the old flame. Friends Reunited makes it possible to get back in contact with old classmates. It doesn't cause breakdowns, but for those who were scanning for another relationship, it's a nice way of doing it. You make contact, you meet and Bob's your uncle."
Divorce rate surges as friends are reunited,
The Equal Opportunities Commission has been asked to investigate the research assessment exercise, after it was discovered that men were twice as likely as women to be rated "research active".
The Association of University Teachers said it had the first conclusive proof that the system, whereby institutions submit research from their top academics for rating, which then determines their funding, flies in the face of equal opportunities policies. Women suffer in research ratings, G, 15.7.2004, https://www.theguardian.com/education/2004/jul/15/ researchassessmentexercise.highereducation
Watchdog accuses government of inaction over rise in superbug cases
Ministers 'all at sea' over increasing threat to patients Hospitals were last night accused by parliamentary spending watchdogs of "an appalling lack of progress" in tackling superbugs and other causes of serious infection in patients. The government was said to be "all at sea on the cost and extent" of the problems as Edward Leigh, Tory chairman of the all-party Commons public accounts committee, suggested it was losing ground in tackling the politically embarrassing threat to patient care. Headline, sub and first §§, 14.7.2004,https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2004/jul/14/ uk.health
Irish batten down hatches for Bush
US president's visit expected to provoke big demonstrations
Headline, G, 25.6.2004,
'I'm just a pleb having a go'
He's a successful comic making it big in serious movies. But Lee Evans still thinks he's an idiot, finds Aida Edemariam
Headline, G, 17.1.2004,
Borrowers find it's pure hell being good
The devil's still in the detail, says Melanie Bien, as penalties for early repayment of loans survive a Government shake-up
Headline
and sub, I, 16.6.2004,
In an Ocean of Firearms, Tucson Is Far Away
January 19, 2011
LAS VEGAS — In a sea of rifles, handguns, knives and ammunition, thousands of
gun enthusiasts gathered here Wednesday for the annual Shot Show, the nation’s
largest gun trade show, where the convention’s sponsors decried gun laws and
said there was something else to blame for the Jan. 8 deadly shooting rampage in
Tucson: the mental health system.
In an Ocean of Firearms,
Tucson Is Far Away, NYT, 19.1.2011,
In the movie Dirty Harry, Clint Eastwood's character asks the criminal he has cornered, while brandishing "the most powerful handgun in the world", whether he feels lucky. The music industry can sympathise. The technology industry is brandishing its latest hardware - mobiles able to download, share and distribute music. The music industry is scared out of its mind. The mass sharing of music files that exploded on the internet could transfer to mobile networks. The advent of high-speed 3G networks and mobile phones with complex operating systems, Bluetooth and massive storage capacity, could create another "perfect storm", hurting profits further.
Music
to the ears:
It's in the nature of being an heir to the throne that you can only be successful if someone snuffs it, but the life of the Prince of Wales has been unusually circumscribed by deaths.
Till death do us join:
Dowie Iain Dowie insisted Crystal Palace would not go "bananas" in a bid to retain their newly-earned Barclays Premiership status.
Eagles won't
break bank to stay up,
War returns with a vengeance as allies fail the Afghan people
George Bush and Tony Blair made grand promises when they took on the Taliban. They sound hollow now. What does it all mean for Iraq? Kim Sengupta reports
Headline, I, 25.4.2005,
Nul points? Never again. The BBC is to give the kiss of life to the torpid selection process for the Eurovision song contest in an attempt to avoid a repeat of 2003's humiliating defeat, and to reignite the fading British interest in the long-running competition.
BBC tries to expunge
Eurovision shame, G, 31.12.2003,
Research has suggested that northerners are "poor but happy" when compared to people in the South. But now the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), Tony Blair's favourite think-tank, has given the Prime Minister food for thought when he compares the lives of his Sedgefield constituents with those of Londoners. "Those who claim that the North may be poorer but is generally happier would seem to be profoundly misguided," according to the institute's study.
'Happy poverty' of North
shown to be a myth, I, 26.12.2003,
Making a killing in the new Iraq as cars, TVs, food and fridges flood in
Rory McCarthy in Abu Flus, where lack of taxes and tariffs means business, legal and illegal, is booming
Headline and sub, G, 8.12.2003,
Portillo and Hague make hay
Former rivals top
£250,000
William Hague and Michael Portillo, who could barely stand each other when they held the top posts in the Tory party, have now become rivals in a race to see who can scoop the highest earnings on top of their backbench salary. New figures show that the former Tory leader won the race last year when he bagged fees of up to £275,000. Mr Portillo earned up to £270,000 from a series of speeches across the world, various television programmes and a directorship of BAE Systems. Headline, sub and first §§,G, 5.12.2003, https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/dec/05/ uk.conservatives
Football: It seems being thoroughly tonked by Pompey was the final straw and Peter Reid will now be told to sling his hook.
Frontpage sub,
Manchester United manager complains that Soho Square has hung Ferdinand out to dry and colluded with the Gunners in reducing misconduct charges.
Seething Ferguson takes no prisoners with bitter attack,
John Humphrys: why businessmen really get up my nose
He is known for his sharp questioning of evasive politicians on Radio 4's Today show. But now John Humphrys has castigated businessmen - for crimes against the English language. Writing the introduction to a book on plain English, Mr Humphrys attacks frequent linguistic abuses and names business people as "the real villains". Headline
and first paragraph, I, 20.9.2003,
Gilligan left out in cold by BBC
The BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan was left isolated at the Hutton inquiry yesterday when he was forced to retract key elements of his controversial Today programme report while the corporation's head of news denounced his journalistic standards.
Headline and first
paragraph,
Mr Coles said he did not want "to scare the living daylights out of people", but he believes that to tackle the problem effectively "everyone needs to know the truth."
Drug
gang warning by police:
Prince William and Kate Middleton
engagement announced engagement of second in line to throne and his long-term girlfriend after weeks of speculation
The prince asked Middleton to marry him during a private holiday in Kenya last month and has, the royal press office stressed, asked her father's permission. Middleton said, during a brief press conference and photocall at St James's Palace, London, that the prince had been "a true romantic", was "a loving boyfriend" and "very supportive of me in good times and also through the bad times". Prince William said of their engagement: "The timing is right now, we are both very, very happy. We both have a very good sense of humour and we take the mickey out of each other a lot." He added that Middleton had "plenty of habits that make me laugh that I tease her about".
Prince William and Kate
Middleton engagement announced,
According to Neil Hunt, lecturer in addictive behaviours at the University of Kent, a film with images of Leah Betts is so often shown in schools that some children 'take the mickey out of it'.
Drug
video's shock tactics 'won't work':
On This Day - August 16, 1971
From The Times Archives
“Doing a Harvey Smith” became a popular expression after the rebel rider’s notorious gesture. Smith’s disqualification was reversed two days later, amid huge public backing
FOUR hours after the W. D. and H. O. Will Jumping Derby here today the directors of the All England show jumping course met and decided to disqualify Harvey Smith who had been judged the winner. They sent him a telegram stating that he was disqualified because of a “disgusting gesture” and that all the prize money was forfeit. The telegram was signed by Douglas Bunn, chairman of the directors. The directors are Mrs Mary Bates-Oldham, Mrs Edward Kidd, and Wing Commander G. G. Braithwaite. On completing his winning round in the jump-off Harvey Smith turned towards the directors’ box and made a two-finger gesture. The crowd apparently took it humorously, but the directors seemingly thought otherwise. The prize money involved is £2,000. Later, one of the international show-jumping judges, Colonel Von Baath, said he was surprised to think that once the judges had made a decision it could be altered by the show authorities. Normally, under British Show Jumping Association rules, a case of this type would be reported to the stewards of the association who would then hear the evidence. If they were satisfied with it they could decide that the rider concerned should be fined or suspended. Mr Smith left tonight to return to his home at Bingley, Yorkshire, and was not available for comment.
From The Times Archives,
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