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Tsunami

I encourage everyone reading this page to donate to one of the disaster relief funds now collecting to support the tsunami victims. Here in Britain, I recommend giving to the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), a…



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Two Funerals, Two Americas

Ronald Reagan and Victor Reuther were born only months apart in the years before the first world war. They both died last weekend in America, aged 92 and 93. One is being mourned by the…


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Are teachers “terrorists”?

I had to read this story twice to be sure it wasn’t a joke. Yesterday, at a private meeting with U.S. governors in the White House, George Bush’s Secretary of Education, Rod Paige, called the…


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Mydoom as a class issue

I don’t know if anyone else is picking up on this, but computer viruses are increasingly becoming a class issue. An article in today’s newspaper revealed that the author of the Mydoom virus which is…




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Searching for ‘labour’

What happens when you search for the word ‘labour’ on the world’s leading search engines? The results are as you’d expect from Google and all the rest — with one amazing exception.