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Running with the hares and hunting with the hounds….
The title of this piece alludes to an old English saying; to ‘run with the hares and hunt with the hounds’ is a way of saying that someone attempts to benefit from both sides in a dispute. This saying was bought very much to my mind last week by the actions of two entertainers whose
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-06-24
#natwest problem is a glitch in the same way that Fukushima experienced a minor leak…. # #eurozone #blair stating European integration will go ahead no matter what…'Springtime for Tony'? # #natwest how much are you betting that the cost of sorting this Mongolian Clusterfuck out will eventually turn up as customer bank charges.. # #natwest
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The Last of the Magicians
“He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago.” So wrote John Maynard Keynes about Sir Isaac Newton
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-06-17
Argyll and Bute council stop a kid blogging about school dinners. And people wonder why I regard most local authorities as wastes of space. # If there was a Cameron drinking game based around the words 'I don't remember' we'd all now be pissed…#leveson # Lib Dem MPs seem to have shown a lack of
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-06-10
We passengers have now been told by a loud man a dozen times that some buses are to be rebodied. Restraing myself… #sheffield # Bugger. Ray Bradbury dies. Was reading some of his short stories over the weekend. Very sad. http://t.co/PtF76x3l #fb # Now that would be silly, @britmic. The Czechs did ok with Havel
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-06-03
Journalists being prevented from getting near anti-jubilee protests by police, despite having press credentials. #jubileeprotest # I'm sure that I just heard that the amount of gold leaf on the barge thingies is enough to cover a soccer pitch. Austerity? # This flotilla – about to set out as a revenge raid on Holland fo
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‘Does Microsoft move the cheese too often?’
Every now and again I bother to read something about my profession. I know that this sounds rather bad – continuous professional development and all that stuff – but usually I’m too busy doing stuff to read about what others are doing or what I might be doing in 2 years time. And so I
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-05-27
David Cameron – proof of the old saying that the problem with political jokes is that they get elected… # Whoops – would appear that spanish bank Bankia has shares suspended. Rumours of #bailout bid. #euro # It's a beautiful morning. Love to all my friends. That is all. #sheffield #sunnyday # My last Joe's
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-05-20
Brooks charged, A4E loses contract – God is putting in overtime today! #fb # Result – Rebekah Brooks charged – http://t.co/r1huAOli # Thanks @CllrBenCurran – here's web link to Third Sector Cafe – http://t.co/1f9dipJv # Powered by Twitter Tools