2014年8月9日 星期六

2014-08-10 U.K. Spotlight


Boris Johnson, shambling celebrity, sets sights on the Tory crown  Financial Times
In the classical literature that Boris Johnson devoured as a student, writers sometimes employed a deus ex machina. This plot trick allowed them to resolve an intractable situation through some magical intervention, a “god out of a machine”. Medea, Euripides' ...


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Divine: the drag queen punk who happily turned the world's stomach  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
One of the best 30 seconds ever captured on film is when Divine walks down a Baltimore high street in Pink Flamingos (1972). A 300 pound drag queen in leopard skin dress, high heels, eye makeup out of Star Trek and an attitude so flaming it was arson.

   


Ebola is a 'global emergency' as bodies litter streets  New Scientist
The World Health Organization has today declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa an international public health emergency. In separate meetings, witnesses describe bodies lying in the street in Liberia, and US health authorities say cases will continue to ...


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  Daily Echo   
Locals fear horses kept in Hamble Airfield are not being fed and watered properly  Daily Echo
FRESH concerns have been raised by residents about the welfare of horses in a Hampshire field over fears they are not being fed and watered properly. Local people fear the animals - many of them with clearly visible ribcages and bones and covered in flies ...


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Is this the next leader of the Labour Party?  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
Remember “boring, snoring Rachel Reeves”? Last September, Labour's welfare spokesman was – in her own words – “humiliated” by Newsnight editor Ian Katz, when he mocked her scrupulously on-message appearance on his show via Twitter. Reeves's ...


   

  New Statesman   
Myth busting: Rowan Williams on Dylan Thomas  New Statesman
The former Archbishop of Canterbury and lead NS book reviewer discusses a new biography of the Welsh poet and a new edition of his short stories. by Rowan Williams Published 1 August, 2014 - 15:23. StumbleUpon logo Reddit logo Print HTML logo ...


   

  Birmingham Mail   
Wolverhampton Wanderers 1 Celta Vigo 1: Full time report and pictures from ...  Birmingham Mail
Nouha Dicko continues to pick up where he left off last season as he found the target again in pre-season as Wolverhampton Wanderers drew their final pre-season friendly 1-1 against Spanish side Celta Vigo at Molineux. Dicko scored 13 goals in 19 games ...


   


A tawdry trade that tarnishes German justice  Financial Times
Iactually find this capitalist system good,” the Formula One chief executive Bernie Ecclestone told Germany's Bild newspaper this week. Well he might. Paragraph 153a of Germany's code of criminal procedure seems to combine the solemnity of justice with the ...


   


Middle East “Peace Envoy” Tony Blair Parties as Gaza Burns  Dissident Voice
Friday July 25th was the eighteenth day of Israel's onslaught on Gaza. 1.7 million people, walled in, embargoed, with no place to hide, squeezed now into just 66% of the forty mile long strip of land on orders from the Tel Aviv Reich. Six Palestinians were killed ...


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Eating in public: have people no shame?  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
Edward Lear's horrid old man choked by 'a great bit of muffin on which he was stuffing' (Photo: www.bridgemanart.com). From The Sunday Telegraph. It's the morning rush hour. We are in what Bunyan called the pelting heat, crowded into the Tube carriage ...


   

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