I recently signed up to become a volunteer mentor for refugees. Mainly so I can look smug and falsely self-effacing when people ask me what I do in my spare time, and tell them I’ve devoted my life to “helping those less fortunate, a bit like Mother Teresa and Princess Diana”. But also because I thought it would be interesting – I wanted to know a bit more about how refugees and asylum seekers are treated here.
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12 Nov 2009 11:45 GMT
Say what you want about her politics, but Meghan McCain has a decent head on her shoulders. She's not afraid to follow a logical train of thought, even if it leads her to unsuspected places. Her latest piece for The Daily Beast goes into the practically beaten to death topic of female politicians in the media - but from a somewhat fresh perspective.
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09 Nov 2009 21:00 GMT
For once the government seems to have made a smart decision when it comes to sex education. And, of course, religious groups are crapping themselves left and right. The Times Online report that today the “at present there is no statutory requirement” for teaching about relationships or the “emotional side” of sexual behavior, but starting in 2011, all 15-year-olds must receive at least
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06 Nov 2009 10:43 GMT
At the moment of Earth's destruction, Douglas Adams tell us in the course of the five part trilogy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the dolphins left the planet behind with a well-meaning and heartily kind words: so long and thanks for all the fish. The stunningly intelligent creatures were long dismissed by the hubristic humans because of their life style choices. Adams explains.
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05 Nov 2009 09:30 GMT
We may not know the title, it may not have a release date, but it's going to happen. Joss Whedon is working on a sequel to Dr. Horrible, and Nathan Fillion is already on board.
Joss already said two months ago that they were working on a sequel and had a storyline planned out, but each bit of news brings us that much closer to a Dr. Horrible sequel.
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04 Nov 2009 17:00 GMT
If you’ve been by Starbucks this morning, you’ll have noticed that the red cups are back! Christmas blend is in, the holiday pastries and cakes are in, and everything has turned all wintery and Christmasy overnight. But even more exciting than the red cups, is Starbucks’s partnership with (RED). Aptly named the (Starbucks) RED partnership, customers now ...
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04 Nov 2009 10:16 GMT
Sarah Palin's memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life, is due out this month, but it won't be the only Palin books hitting the shelf this pre-holiday season. The editors of The Nation magazine have put together a book of essays that interrogates Palin's image, personality, and politics.Going Rouge: An American Nightmare had plenty of opportunities to make a mockery out of Palin, or to make a parody of her own memoir. Rather than taking the low road, the editors of the b...
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03 Nov 2009 19:00 GMT
Oh, well isn’t this exciting. Back in January 2007 when Moira Cameron became the first ever female Beefeater at the Tower of London – a few people weren’t so pleased. They were even more not-so-pleased when Moira needed a £1400 new uniform to help fit her womanly figure. As a disgruntled Daily Mail reader put it: "That’s 500+ years of tradition gone and a large tailors bi..
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02 Nov 2009 12:00 GMT
Ever since the internet turned up to give newspapers a kicking, there’s been a constant stream of articles telling us where journalism is heading, what will become of news, what journalists should be doing or learning or saying, and how it’s all changing and if you don’t keep up, you’ll fall over and die. Yes die.
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29 Oct 2009 12:00 GMT
Elena Rossini is a freelance film maker who you may know via The Illusionists, a documentary on the marketing of unattainable female beauty that is popular on Twitter.
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21 Oct 2009 08:34 GMT