Posted on 29 October, 2007 by kevinboatang
Just recently Peter Hitchens has returned to the usual, default position of a good old rant. After a period of writing some mildly normal stuff, good old Hitch is back to the old rubbish he used to pump out every week and still does in the Mail on Sunday to satisfy his overlord Dacre.
Last week [...]
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Posted on 27 October, 2007 by JohnDemetriou
Worthy of eternal and everlasting debate. For there really is no final answer that could ever hope to satisfy a majority of discerning full English Breaky eaters.
I’ll add my tuppence worth. For I believe the perfect Full English Breakfast should comprise of the following magnificent ingredients. (P.s. If Peter Hitchens happens to click on this [...]
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Posted on 24 October, 2007 by JohnDemetriou
Pub food has improved dramatically over the last 10 years or so. We’ve gone from those dodgy pies and soggy chips, or luke warm lasagnes with crappy bit of side salad to full on chop-licking exotic wonderments. I am actually quite proud of our country for what we have managed to achieve over such a [...]
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Posted on 23 October, 2007 by kevinboatang
Lee Jasper is the race advisor to Ken Livingstone, one of his favourite buddies, and has a long history of campaigning for racial equality. Very noble you might think, except he comes from an angle many of us would see as racist. You see, it’s all about race, it’s all because of the colour of [...]
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Posted on 22 October, 2007 by JohnDemetriou
That’s the problem isn’t it? According to this government, nothing is ever the individual’s fault.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7047244.stm
Fascinating Beeb article on obesity, complete with stats, facts and a rather niggling chart that shows someone roughly of my height and weight as dipping tentatively into the “overweight” category. I won’t go into how I feel about that (annoyed) but [...]
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