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  • Tories sign up Geldof

    12/27/2005 7:43:10 PM PST · by Aussie Dasher · 47 replies · 729+ views
    Herald Sun ^ | 28 December 2005
    BOB Geldof, the rock singer behind the Make Poverty History campaign and Live8 concerts, is to act as a consultant to Britain's main opposition Conservatives, the party announced today. Geldof, who led calls for the Group of Eight richest nations to act on debt, trade and poverty during July's Gleneagles summit, will work as an adviser to Tory leader David Cameron's new Globalisation and Global Poverty policy group. The move is likely to be seen as a coup for Mr Cameron, who was elected to the post earlier this month, and signals a move by Tories onto ground championed by...
  • Humans in England May Go Back 700,000 Years

    12/14/2005 5:03:07 PM PST · by aculeus · 29 replies · 663+ views
    Associated Press ^ | December 14, 2005 | By THOMAS WAGNER Associated Press Writer
    LONDON (AP) -- Ancient tools found in Britain show that humans lived in northern Europe 200,000 years earlier than previously thought, at a time when the climate was warm enough for lions, elephants and saber tooth tigers to also roam what is now England. Scientists said Wednesday that 32 black flint artifacts, found in river sediments in Pakefield in eastern England, date back 700,000 years and represent the earliest unequivocal evidence of human presence north of the Alps. Scientists had long held that humans had not migrated north from the relatively warm climates of the Mediterranean region until half a...
  • What the British are Reading about us Today. (Incredible lies and hate-mongering!)

    09/10/2005 10:03:13 PM PDT · by atomic conspiracy · 32 replies · 1,453+ views
    NRO- The Corner ^ | 9-10-05 | Kathryn Jean Lopez
    WHAT THE BRITISH ARE READING ABOUT US THIS TODAY [Kathryn Jean Lopez] From a friend in London: this is from The Sun, the UK's largest newspaper, on saturday, Sept 10 2005, in a column by Jeremy Clarkson. I quote this verbatim (it's not up on their website, so i'm typing it in) "Hollywood has taught America that the military can solve anything. It's full of chisel-jawed heroes who never leave a man on the field and never fail to get the job done. So they'd have New Orleans sorted out in a jiffy. Unfortunately, on the street you've got some...
  • Ruck'd - What A Letdown! NZ 36 - Eng -3

    06/12/2004 8:40:16 AM PDT · by .cnI redruM · 7 replies · 269+ views
    Knight Of The Mind ^ | Saturday, June 12, 2004 | .cnI redruM
    Some rugby matches hurt just to watch. This one fell squarely into that category. New Zealand ended England's 12 game Southern Hemisphere winning streak the way Attila The Hun ended Rome's reputation for military dominance. RugbyRugby.com will tend to hyperbolize match reports. This time they ran short of superlatives and their metaphors grew fatigued long before the The All Blacks had finished brutalizing England's tight five. The stunned fans of the RWC 2003 Champions will make much ado over the fact that England went to war minus Johnnie Wilkinson, Martin Johnson and the bulk of their fire and determination. I'm...
  • British Royals Defend 'Horrible' Prince Harry

    02/20/2004 1:38:33 PM PST · by .cnI redruM · 20 replies · 282+ views
    Yahoo! ^ | Fri Feb 20, 7:00 AM ET | By Andrew Cawthorne
    LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's royal family rounded on a columnist on Friday who had branded Prince Harry "a national disgrace," lazing his way through a year off in Australia and Africa and touching up girls in nightclubs. The office of Harry's father, heir-to-the-throne Prince Charles, sent a furious letter to the Daily Express saying Carol Sarler's attack on his son was "unfair" and "nonsense." "I understand that columnists are paid to express their opinions vigorously and with style, but the piece entitled 'Spoiled and lazy Harry is one of a kind"' was grossly inaccurate and ill-informed," Charles' new communications secretary...
  • Blunder lands Kay free pizza until 2007!

    11/25/2003 11:49:26 AM PST · by .cnI redruM · 11 replies · 159+ views
    rugbyrugby.com ^ | 25/11/03 | Not Provided
    No adverts just yet England and Leicester Tigers lock Ben Kay, who fumbled an easy pass when the tryline beckoned in the Rugby World Cup Final, has been offered four year's free pizza by restaurant chain, Pizza Hut. After the game, Kay joked of his clanger: "After I'd dropped it I was thinking Pizza Hut would be on the phone and I'd be doing adverts for the rest of my life." Kay was referring to the likes of Tony Underwood and Mike Catt who featured in an advert with All Blacks legend Jonah Lomu after he pummelled them to the...
  • Aussies - all puff and no trousers. 'I'll run around the office in a Green and Gold thong'

    11/07/2003 11:41:17 AM PST · by .cnI redruM · 12 replies · 142+ views
    rugbyrugby.com ^ | 07/11/03 | By Richard Pembroke
    Toutai Kefu's embarrassing outburst about English arrogance last week is just the latest in a series of extraordinary attacks by different sectors of the Australian rugby fraternity on the English and English rugby over the last few weeks. Eddie Jones has been chirping away with usual tripe, the Australian press' unique style of journalism (if you can call it that) was best represented by the Sydney Morning Herald's full page picture of Johnny Wilkinson with the caption "Is that all you have got?" and motor-mouth Stephen Larkham is a veritable rent-a-quote if anyone is looking for a few words to...