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From chalk to couture (May 18 2008 06:44 GMT) - http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=rDOvQygNgco Four Teacher Idols find themselves transformed from conservative teachers to glamorous models after StarEducation gives them a chance for a makeover. |
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Bootstrap enhancement (May 18 2008 06:44 GMT) - Let us welcome the work of John Harris, (Professor of Bioethics, University of Manchester) in popularising the potential of enhancement in relation to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill would allow for inter-species embryos that will not only enable medical science to overcome the acute shortage of human eggs for research, but would provide models for the understanding of many disease processes, an essential precursor to the development of... |
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People are just never satisfied (May 18 2008 06:44 GMT) - And nor should they be, but here is Patsy Kensit interviewed in last week's Observer Magazine: Q. How do you feel about plastic surgery? A. If it means you can look like Sharon Osborne, then why not? |
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The state likes to threaten people (May 18 2008 06:44 GMT) - It is hard not to be struck by how often the British state threatens its subjects. You can hardly turn on the television without being confronted by direct unambiguous threats that say 'obey-or-else', as mention here on Samizdata before recently. Eamonn Butler of the Adam Smith Institute wrote about this in an article titled Watch out, the Gestapo are about. The latest one I have noticed is a threat to car owners. If they do... |
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Biopics of writers (May 18 2008 06:44 GMT) - "Biopics", or films about the lives of the famous, have their place. According to this report, the US actor Leonard di Caprio, who played Howard Hughes in "The Aviator" - which I thoroughly enjoyed - is lining up to play Ian Fleming, who would have been 100 on 28 May (the same birthday as your humble blogger). Hmm, not sure whether that is great casting. There was a film made a few years back with... |
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Samizdata quote of the day (May 18 2008 06:44 GMT) - "Two substantive political issues are the federal budget deficit and the war in Iraq. Now, if you're electing Democrats to control government spending, then you're marrying Angelina Jolie for her brains. This leaves the Democrats with one real issue: Iraq. And so far the best that any Democratic presidential candidate has been able to manage with Iraq is to make what I think of as the high school sex promise: |
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Sorry Mr Kaletsky, but Gordon Brown was a mediocre finance minister (May 18 2008 06:44 GMT) - Anatole Kaletsky is usually good value for his economic analysis. In a pretty scathing column today about the collapse of Brown's political reputation since becoming Prime Minister last year, Kaletsky tries to contrast Brown the bumbling PM with Brown the masterful Chancellor of the Exchequer. He writes: Indeed, he was probably the most successful chancellor in modern history, notwithstanding his muddled tax reforms, his badly timed gold sales and the fatal damage he allowed the... |
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Suppose the Apocalypse came to Glasgow... (May 18 2008 06:44 GMT) - Finding myself uncharacteristically unable to give a flying fuck about what is in the news today and therefore unable to murder helpless pixels merely to write about politics or world events, I took advantage of my inamorata being away on business to escape the Ivory Tower and go bathe in the blood and beer of popular culture... yes, I just saw Doomsday, a post-Apocalypse Mad Max-meets-28 Days Later action splatter flick. It is a movie... |
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"People always have a choice ..." (May 18 2008 06:44 GMT) - My thanks to Shane Greer for alerting me to what, on the face of it, seems like very good news, from Northern Ireland: The education minister has said she is very disappointed by grammar schools planning to set up a company to run independent entrance exams. I was not disappointed at all, when I read that. If there is one thing that really, really needs to be got out of the clutches of the state,... |
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"Il trionfo del blogorissimo classicale di Madamina Duchene ..." (May 18 2008 06:44 GMT) - I just came across this. What's happened is that they've discovered another Vivaldi opera, and classical music blogger Jessica Duchen is less than thrilled: Vivaldi was an astonishing character with a hugely colourful life. But isn't there a limit to how many of these rattly, twiddly baroque things the market can take? After all, most of them feature either a one-name title (eg Tomasso, Soltino, etc) or a massively long one (Il trionfo del blogorissimo... |
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Social status and money (May 18 2008 06:44 GMT) - Tim Worstall has interesting things to say about the difference between social status and economic inequality, pointing out that the two things only occasionally map onto each other, a fact which does rather undermine the egalitarian argument that reducing economic inequality will reduce differences in status. A good point indeed: in the former Soviet Union and in heavily statist countries today, for example, there was and is a gulf between the citizenry and the cliques... |
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The age of political landslides (May 18 2008 06:44 GMT) - Samizdata has now been going for more than half a decade, and since what I am about to say has been becoming ever more true throughout that time, I may have said what follows before. So if you have already read, marked, learned and inwardly digested all of this, apologies, and on to the next posting. I want to make a point about the nature of voting in British general elections. It now looks as... |
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No wonder people get cynical about foreign aid (May 18 2008 06:44 GMT) - This story in the Daily Telegraph today about Burmese officials allegedly pilfering foreign aid and selling it just reinforces any prejudice one might have about the efficacy of sending aid to a country governed by thugs. It is not obvious to me what, if anything, the major powers could or should do about this. Outright military intervention seems unlikely and given the stretched resources of western powers, unwise. However, given its rapid economic ascent, one... |
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Samizdata quote of the day (May 18 2008 06:44 GMT) - Actually, it is even worse than that. - An unnamed BBC news journalist with whom I unexpectedly found myself drinking on Saturday, when asked if the BBC really is the Stalinist bureaucracy it is reputed to be.... |
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The Revolution: A Manifesto (May 18 2008 06:44 GMT) - Glenn Reynold's has a review at Pajamas Media of Ron Paul's best selling new treatise, "The Revolution: A Manifesto". He has beaten me to the punch as my copy is waiting for me in New York City and I will not see it until Thursday, No problem though: Glenn seems to have almost exactly the same opinions I expect I will have. This is not so strange after all. |
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In praise of a Kentish small port (May 18 2008 06:44 GMT) - Like the diarist and blogger Diamond Geezer (now that's what I call a brilliant name), I have come to value much of the scenery in the southeastern pocket of ours in England. If you are planning a daytrip and cannot face a long drive but want something that just about gets you away from the capital without being all precious about it, there is a lot to be said for Whitstable Bay in Kent's north... |
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Keeping in touch... (May 18 2008 06:44 GMT) - Keeping in touch is something I suck at. [Sorry, guys.] ;) It is getting ready to get worse because I have more going on than ever and we all know how well I juggle. ; |
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Argentina: ufa...!!! : Por atrás (por Eduardo Aliverti) (May 18 2008 06:44 GMT) - Hay, sólo tal vez, una buena noticia. Si va a fondo (y si se prolonga, sobre todo) la medida de fuerza del movimiento campestre, como bautizó Eduardo Grüner a eso que la inmensa mayoría denomina ?el campo?, habría la posibilidad de que aparezcan en escena las verdaderas estrellas de la obra. Porque, y entre otras causas principales gracias al ocultamiento periodístico, hasta ahora apenas aparecieron los actores de reparto. |
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