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The Six O’Clock News: a Report on Reports on Kiddie Fidling
Since I’m seeing MSI play roughly at time of publication, I thought I’d do a post on paedophiles. No. Wait. (Don’t sue, there’s a link if you keep reading!) We Asked Lostprophets Fans How They Feel About Ian Watkins’ Confession Vice asked some Lostprophets fans if they were still Lostprophets fans and the general consensus Continue reading
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The Ten O’Clock News: Enduring Legacies and Other Less Pretentious Ideas
I realised over the course of this evening that today is fifty years since JFK’s assassination, fifty years since the first Doctor Who episode and three years since Danger Days was released. I was first going to do a post about JFK and how he’s become an icon, then about JFK and Doctor Who and Continue reading
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No Site For Weaklings
We’ve started the religious experience topic in RS, and today we looked at proof. Here is an extract of my notes: If someone experiences an entity, then the entity exists. (I have conversations with characters, then the characters exist…) It took me a few minutes to figure out why Thank You God was playing in Continue reading
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The Six O’Clock News: Children In Need, Charities and Cynicism
I mentioned last week that people can donate to the Syrian refugee crisis appeal via the United Nations, and in light of the Philippines’ typhoon and Children In Need’s imminent broadcast I thought I’d talk about giving cash to worthy causes. Medicins Sans Frontiers is currently fundraising to support their work in South Sudan, the Central African Continue reading
DISCUSS., Food, Government and Politics, Internet, November 2013, The Six O’Clock News, THE WORLD *head in hands*AllOut, Amnesty International, APEC, Bangladesh, Camfed, Central African Republic, charities, Children In Need, Columbia, Comic Relief, DR Congo, Ecuador, Egypt, GM crops, Greece, Greenpeace, Haiti, India, Indifferent Ignorance, Iraq, Jeans for Genes, Medicins Sans Frontiers, Mexico, Mozambique, Nepal, North Korea, Philippines, Poppy Appeal, Pudsey Bear, Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Syria, the United Nations, UK, USA, World Food Programme
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