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• British Children Increasingly at Risk of ‘witchcraft’ Abuse, Police Warn

  

  Children as young as this boy have been accused of being witches. Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rscj/6217240563/in/photostream/ Police are warning... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2012 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Horsegate: Cameron Admits He Rode Rebekah Brooks’ Ex-police Horse, Raisa

  

  A Metropolitan Police horse - they're just giving them away. Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kenjonbro/6904839843/in/photostream/ In what is... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2012 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Meg Rosoff: How to Beat Writer’s Block (or Give up Trying)

  

  The joys of writers' block. Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sybrenstuvel/2468506922/ The secrets I am about to reveal are known only to those who hav... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is Warm and Fuzzy

  

  Judi Dench in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Publicity image. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, directed by John Madden, who previously gave us Shakespeare in... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2012 CURRENT, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• An Interview with a Young Writer: Wes Brown, Author of Shark

  

  When he was a child, Wes Brown wanted to be a professional wrestler. Luckily, he outgrew that ambition and settled on another career path, one that he says he... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE, CURRENT

• Google’s Privacy Policy Annoys the EU

  

  Google: Don't be evil? Do Google’s new privacy laws breach European Union laws? France’s data protection watchdog, CNIL, certainly thinks so, and has written a... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2012 CURRENT, SOCIETY, TECH

• Koran-burning Crisis in Afghanistan Mounts, Despite Obama Apology

  

  Obama claimed his apology to Afghanistan over the burning of Korans on an American airbase 'calmed things down'. Not exactly, say commentators. Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2012 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• As Tensions Simmer Between Israel and Iran, Are the Iranian Elections a Sham?

  

  President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the way out? Photo credit: Daniella Zalcman http://www.flickr.com/photos/midnightquill/1435157946/ Legislative elections in Ira... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2012 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Engelbert Humperdinck to Represent UK in Eurovision Song Contest: Massive Joke O...

  

  Engelbert Humperdinck. Photocredit: MSN Engelbert Humperdinck! What a name, what a guy. Well, his real name’s Arnold Dorsey – wouldn’t you change it? Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2012 CURRENT, ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Andrew Breitbart, Controversial Conservative Commentator and Publisher, Dead at...

  

  Andrew Breitbart. Photo credit: Gage Skidmore, http://www.flickr.com/photos/gageskidmore/5450294542 America’s conservative media mourned the loss of one its... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2012 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Davy Jones, Lead Singer of The Monkees, Dies of a Heart Attack

  

  The Monkees: Davy Jones is the little one. Photocredit: http://www.psycho-jello.com/monkees/best.html Davy Jones, the lead singer of the 1960s band The Monkees... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2012 CURRENT, ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC, SOCIETY

• North Korea to Stop Nuclear Program: Is It Just a Ploy?

  

  Has made a promise in return for food aid from the US Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2012 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• After-birth Abortion: Can Killing a Baby Be Justified?

  

  An anti-abortion protestor. Photocredit: Steve Rhodes http://www.flickr.com/photos/ari/2209312659/sizes/z/in/photostream/ Is it ever right to kill someone? Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2012 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Government U-turns on Work Experience; Participants Allowed to Keep Benefits

  

  A job center. Photocredit: Geograph The government has performed a U-turn with regard to controversial work experience placements that many deemed “slave... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2012 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Berenstain Bears Co-creator Dies at 88, Slate’s Hanna Rosin Says ‘good Riddance’

  

  Children's books. Photo credit: San Jose Library Jan Berenstain, co-creator of the much-loved children’s series The Berenstain Bears, has died at the age of 88. Read more

  Posted on 29 February 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE, CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Black Arts by Prentice and Weil is a Thrilling Good Time

  

  Black Arts by Prentice and Weil. It’s 1592 and the dank streets of London are a dangerous hive of thieves, murderers and fanatics. Read more

  Posted on 29 February 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• UK Media Divided Over United Nations Report on British Drug Problems

  

  Lines of cocaine ready to be snorted. Photo credit: Zxc The British media went into overdrive on Tuesday after a UN report apparently claimed that violent... Read more

  Posted on 29 February 2012 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• World Boxing Council Bans Dereck Chisora Indefinitely, Boxing Still Reeling on...

  

  Boxers slug it out. Photo credit: kate.gardiner Dereck Chisora, the British boxer involved in the disgraceful Munich press conference brawl with countryman Davi... Read more

  Posted on 29 February 2012 CURRENT, SOCIETY, SPORTS

• The Sun and the Met: Who is Really Acting Like the East German Secret Police?

  

  The Sun. Photo credit: Lars K Those fluent in the language of the internet will need no introduction to Godwin’s Law, or its popular logical extension – that th... Read more

  Posted on 29 February 2012 CURRENT, MEDIA, SOCIETY

• Are the Rich More Likely to Steal Candy from a Baby? Up to a Point.

  

  Michael Douglas as Gordon Gecko in Wall Street: The epitome of the cheating upper class? Publicity still. Are people from the upper crust more likely to lie,... Read more

  Posted on 29 February 2012 BUSINESS, CURRENT, SOCIETY