A picture of me wearing the present in question, a multifunctional tube of stretchy material

My thanks to Cassandra -- that's her sipping tea in the background -- for one of the neatest presents I've ever received; a Multifunktionstücher.

Phil Spector in the dock at his trial for the murder of Lana Clarkson

Don’t let this happen to anyone you love. No matter how good they may once have been.

Medicated to the gills, suffering from short man’s disease, thinning hair and a pathological need to be noticed, psychologically damaged from his father’s suicide, his mother’s coldness and his young son’...

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As if to prove the point, there is a little piece about fisheries (un)management on cnews, a Canadian site, accusing British Columbia’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans of [caving to political pressure]http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2007/06/26/4291752-sun.html and allowing over-fishing. O...

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In survey after survey, English shoppers say they trust supermarkets to deliver high quality produce. Fools. They just aren’t equipped to do so.

Organic carrots bought recently at Waitrose carry a picture of Peter Cornish, one of its “carefully selected growers”, on the back of the pack, but i...

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Start: 95.4 Last week: 88.3 This week: 88.3

Tuesday 26 June: Well, I’m not going to make it to a 10kg loss, I don’t suppose. At least, not within the year. But it would be nice to shed just a little more. Managed to abandoned the cornetto most days without any problem, which suggests that I wa...

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