Government will spy on every call and e-mail - Times Online
From the story: "Ministers are considering spending up to £12 billion on a database to monitor and store the internet browsing habits, e-mail and telephone records of everyone in Britain."
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EADT - Atheist's bizarre bid to convert Christian
In Suffolk (UK), an avowed atheist engages in a bizarre, prolonged campaign of obscene harrassment (involving excrement both human and canine) in an apparent bid to convince a Christian neighbor to "reconsider her religious beliefs."
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Humanists sue as exam agency blocks GCSE | Education | The Guardian
Personally, I think the humanists are way off base here, despite the fact that I'm generally sympathetic to humanist organizations. "Humanism" (the concept being, for one thing, a contemporary invention of its detractors) is simply not a religious tradition that you can study the same way one can study Islam or Buddhism. More importantly, it's a strategic mistake and conceptual error to try and pretend to be one. Seen on @melmcbride 's Twitter stream.
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Interview | Kazuo Ishiguro (by Linda Richards, January Magazine, October 2000)
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UK educator decries domination of education by management-oriented language
An Oxford professor examines the gradual takeover of all policy writing on education by the language of business management: "efficiency," "providers," "audits," "performance indicators," etc. This kind of thinking, he says, has gradually obscured any leg
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The Proclaimers, "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)," from Sunshine on Leith (Chrysalis, 1988)
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The Landmark Trust: vacation in a historic building
The Trust buys up historic, umm, landmarks and rehabs them into vacation rentals. Sounds very cool. Most, but not all locations are in the UK. Anyone tried this?
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No fat Buddhas: Durham council condemns restaurant name as discriminatory
When people complain about "political correctness gone mad," I usually stop listening. But this seems like the real thing. A Chinese Buddhist opens a restaurant called "Fat Buddha" in Durham (UK), and the city council declares the name offensive and deman
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Leave Christ in Christmas, say Muslims in UK
British Muslims join Christians in objecting to the secular reinterpretation of Christmas.
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