Royal Square Rally 16 Feb 2019.
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Today a rally took place in the Royal Square, organised by anti Child Abuse
Campaigner Cheyenne O'Connor asking for pedophiles to remain on the sex
offe...
AN INNOCENT ABROAD
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*Mont Orgeuil CastleClick on any image for a larger version*
I am very proud of that photo of Mont Orgeuil which I took in Jersey (CI)
in 1961. It's not...
Rental caps petition - last push!
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Just a quick one for today.
Most of you will already have been aware of or attended the rally for
public sector pay, held today in the Royal Square. The p...
Three wrongs don't make a democracy
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My last posting was entitled the law the legislators like to ignore.
Events suggest my mind was in the right place. The title would have suited
better h...
Measuring the meaningful
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I was taken with this graph in a this short article at
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/11/forget-gdp-for-the-21st-century-we-need-a-modern-economic-m...
All at Sea
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Fire crew and lifeboat crew are two vocations only suitable for genuine
heroes and heroines, and fully deserve immense respect from everybody.
However, the...
All At Sea
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Fire crew and lifeboat crew are two vocations only suitable for genuine
heroes and heroines, and fully deserve immense respect from everybody.
However, the...
Just Ask The Damn Question
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THE BBC AND JIMMY SAVILE:
COULD IT HAPPEN AGAIN?
Yes – Because it’s Happening Now.
“Everybody would say, ‘what evidence have you got?’ I would say, ‘we...
Disgusted by Police Cruel Dog Killing
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How would you react had it been your beloved pet that they had so callously
run down & murdered? Just what sort of example is this to give to our
children ...
Southpaw (2015)
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Free Southpaw in High Definition FormatNow you can download full Southpaw
in best quality with duration 123 Min and was published in 2015-07-24 and
MPAA r...
Beauty and the Beast
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This is a piece that I wrote for the Jersey Evening Post series entitled
"Beauty and the Beast". We were asked to describe two buildings in Jersey -
one be...
Coastal Walk to Corbiere - Gorse Dodder
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Gorse Dodder
*Gorse Dodder (Cuscata epithymum) *
A tangled mass of slender, reddy-coloured threads draped over gorse or
heathers; tiny, pale...
10,000 comments
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Last night the 10,000th comment was posted on this blog. Appropriately
enough, it was the question which asked what exactly Mr Kevin Delaney has
done to ke...
Letter to St Helier ratepayers
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Dear Ratepayer
The annual sending out of Rates Assessment notices, which are not a request
for payment but notification of how your rates bill will be calcu...
50 - Final Blog of the Series
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Hindsight is a wonderful thing and when I reflect back to the start of this
awful mess I fully realise that the timing for this event could not have
been w...
The Politics Hour - Is That All We Get???
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I have been away from this “project” for a long time – firstly due to work
commitments, then due to a quasi-despair at the poor level of the debate
amongst...
Nearly 5 years later.....
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Still the case is ongoing..... An offer has been made by the defendants
which has been 'on the table' for quite some period of time for the sum of
£1500. H...
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An award – for an outstanding contribution to the accountancy profession
Accounting, Richard Murphy, Uncategorized Add comments
Oct042012
When I mentione...
Jersey election statistics 2011
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On 19 October Jersey will go to the polls to vote for Constables, Deputies
and Senators on the same day for the first time. There are 82 candidates up
for ...
Coffee - Good or Bad - The age old debate!
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So the other day I was working with a friend in the University Library when
we were disrupted by an irate Librarian as she punished someone for
drinking co...
Hell Bent...and Hell Deserving
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Those who are not privileged to call themselves Old Victorians can only
imagine the pride and sense of entitlement that is imparted on donning the
blazer o...
Opinion – 20 February 2019
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Lynne Cullens Some notes on class, relevance and the Church Giles Goddard
ViaMedia.News Lessons My Mother Taught Me…Like When Best to Say Nothing
At All Ke...
The Land of Lost Content reopens in Craven Arms
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Craven Arms does not just have a mosque: it also has a privately owned
museum too.
The Land of Lost Content, housed in a former Nonconformist chapel, bil...
Know Your Daleks No. 248
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*The Recon Dalek.*
Daleks lack subtlety. If they want to take over your planet, they simply
turn up in a fleet of spaceships and invade. However, this was...
Hurricanes & climate change: detection
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by Judith Curry I am preparing a new Special Report on Hurricanes and
Climate Change. This Report is easier than my Special Report on Sea Level
and Climate...
A time for silence, a time to speak
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Maybe this is part of why I'm a poet: I'm an external processor. "How do I
know what I think until I see what I say?" wrote EM Forster. Me too. I
write my ...
Mega City Book Club 86: Mek Files 3
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Julius Howe is back on the podcast to talk about original art collecting,
the legacy of Carlos Ezquerra, and the third volume of the ABC Warriors.
Check o...
The Romantic in the Rain
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The middle classes of modern England are quite fanatically fond of washing;
and are often enthusiastic for teetotalism. I cannot therefore comprehend
why i...
How Art Began? Antony Gormley on Prehistoric Art
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The British sculptor, Antony Gormley, in a recent television programme (available
on BBC I-Player until the end of February), explored the question of how
...
Saying Goodbye - Madge
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It's been a while since I last posted anything on here - so hello again to
everyone who stumbles upon this blog!
A lot has happened. My son arrived, six ye...
Doctor Who: Arachnids in the UK
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In a recent interview, Mandip Gill (the actress who plays Yaz on Doctor
Who) was asked: “If you could go anywhere in the TARDIS, where would you
go?” Her a...
Dreame on
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The Ucheldre Centre have just sent me the leaflet with details of Ben's
Dreame fortnight - an Elizabethan-style adaptation of A Midsummer Night's
Dream - i...
On Solstice Morning
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As it has proved nigh impossible to get my group of regulars together to
ritualize Yule (we did have a lovely dinner celebration last weekend) I had
been m...
A Seminal Book
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*Peter Kreeft writes in the 'Foreword' :*
"The Proverbs of Middle-earth is worth reading, for fun as well as for
(mental) profit. Those two are the twin p...
Revolution, Evolution or Good Disagreement?
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This post is prompted by a number of things that have left me pondering how
as Christians we are to bring about change in our churches. When we
strongly b...
The Jihadist
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(*With apologies to Rupert Brooke*)
If I should die, think only this of me
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is forever ISIS. There shall be...
In Our Time: The Borgias
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It seems from the three scholars sat around studio 50E that there is no
proof of incest, either between father and daughter or between brother and
sister; ...
Data Protection Stupity
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I normally desperately try to avoid any contact with any call centre unless
I really have to and today's experiences remind me why.
Having just moved to ne...
Order of Beetroot,Onions and Turnips
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I am please to announce the Order of Beetroot,Onions and Turnips or O.B.O.T
for short.
I am the chosen chief as voted by a select group of root vegetables.
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