I watched the Select Committee with that increasingly sinking feeling you get, viewing an over hyped cup final. Billed as judgement day , the arch uber villain Mr  M was to  finally face his unalloyed epilogue. What we got was worthy of a restoration comedy of manners, where Mr. Magoo’s Oscar winning portrait of demented ignorance,  went unchallenged, culminating in the welcomed pantomime of a bungled pieing (albeit disrupting the poignancy of Corby’s Louise Mensch's questioning).

Select Committee?

Over 40 years Murdoch has contemptuously dealt with all comers,  reserving his highest disdain for politicians, whom he routinely threatened with exposure (when they

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Dear All The Census 2011 results will be out mid year next year after much population collection of data, segmentation work, analysis and cross tabulation goes on by enumerators and statisticians directed by the Office of National Statistics.

Genealogy

Personally I think I always like to visit such weblinks as it is interesting to examine the life and death accounts of our forebears. It is an interesting fact that in the middle ages, childbirth had a major adverse effect on female mortality rates up until 1900s - life expectancies in 1500s for example were about 60 years

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The cliché a week is a long time in politics reached it’s apogee with the recent revelations of the News of the Screws (aka world), hacking into Milly Dowler's voicemail, conflated with the routine bribing of policemen for services rendered. I was originally going to big up the successful Northampton Carnival, but the final unmasking of how the Murdoch empire goes about its daily business was an irresistible opportunity to indulge in a bit of schadenfreude. As previously stated the BME voice in the media is at best marginal & under Mr.Murdoch’s patronage the chances of ameliorating this situation remains as

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