This News of the World scandal
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“Oh come off it. This is starting to get silly,” writes Boris Johnson in his article this week for The Daily Telegraph.
Starting with the Royal Family, then Gordon Brown and a few ‘celebrities’, the News of the World telephone-hacking scandal has spread, we are told, to hundreds — to the extent that no self-respecting celebrity wants to be thought of as not having been bugged by the ‘gentlemen of the Screws’.
A hard task — spreading gloom in the sunshine
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Sunday blessed the people of London with a lovely Spring morning : bright sunshine, beautiful blossom, more daffodils that you could count, a gentle breeze and everywhere in a certain park the sounds of Spring … and “the gasping sobs of middle-aged men as they tried to retrieve the high-speed cross-court passing shots of their younger, fitter wives”.
Protogenoi (primordial gods) – Part II
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Janina Davison Forder continues her brief introduction to the early period of Greek myth
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As Part I of our story of the Theogony (the genesis of the gods) ended, we had just witnessed the birth of the first wave of Titans, the hecatoncheires (100-handed monsters), the Fates and the Furies.
Now, about this ‘alternative’ …
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In his article this week, Boris derides Labour’s ‘alternative’ to bringing the British economy back to a state of fiscal sanity : attacks on Fortnum’s and the Ritz and the setting of bonfires, all to be controlled — as best they can — by 4,500 policemen at tax-payers’ expense. Having paid close attention to Ed Miliband’s speech, he concludes that the ‘alternative’ amounts to “two-thirds of diddly-squat”.
The risks that attend our noble cause in Libya
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Shall we continue to have the blessing of the Arabs ?
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Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, puts these questions in his article in
The Daily Telegraph yester-day (March 21, 2011).
The best we can say of this venture, he says, is that, for the time being, it seems the lesser of two evils, agreeing with American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that we cannot sit idly by whilst “this lunatic” massacres his own people. He even expresses pride in the way H.M. Government has handled the matter so far.
