Pink bits 115 Sunday, August 21st 2005 Nice T. S. Eliot quote from Blake Morrison in this excellent article on editing: (via Arts and Letters Daily Someone called Fred Studemann from the Financial Times was on SkyNews this morning doing their look at their regular look-at-the-papers bit. He mentioned that story that Tim Worstall drew attention to last week Telegraph why this had occurred Then he drew attention to to make streets more civilized and female-friendly by installing hair dryers in public conveniences, having creches in nightclubs, cutting out the bottom of hedges, and converting non-glass bus shelters into glass ones (they did that to a bus shelter on my street this week, and by next morning it had already been smashed). Some of these ideas apparently came from those geniuses at the think-tank Demos. Mark Steyn has a solution for obseity in America: Posted by Blithering Bunny at 12:26 pm . Filed in Politics Humour Media Economics ... Pink bits 114 Tuesday, August 16th 2005 Laban Tall has eyes like a hawk. brilliant Simon Jenkins: I walked into London yesterday, and stood feet away from the bomb victims. Curiously, I have never felt safer in my entire life. And, I am happy to say, away from the hysterics of the bleeding and the wounded, my fellow Londoners greeted the events with commendable placidity and equanimity that made one feel proud to be British. | |
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