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• The Holidays, from the British Fashion Awards to Bondi Beach

  

  Lucy's London: The first in what we hope will be many more dispatches from girl-about-town Lucy George. Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2011 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Jack Kerouac’s “lost” Novel, The Sea is My Brother, is Flawed but Shows Promise

  

  Jack Kerouac's had a lasting influence on American culture. Photocredit: http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-1466941287 The Sea is My Brother tells the story... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2011 BOOKS, CULTURE, CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Cameron Vetoes EU Fiscal Integration Treaty, Leaving the UK out in the Cold –...

  

  Prime Minister David Cameron. Photo credit: DFID UK Prime Minister David Cameron effectively vetoed a European Union agreement that would essentially... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2011 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Massive Alien Death Star Spotted Parked by Mercury. Possibly.

  

  Should we be getting ready to welcome the glorious people of Gootan to Earth? Or is the spaceship supposedly spotted by Mercury really an imaging error? Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2011 CURRENT, SCIENCE, SOCIETY

• Blight at the Heart of Walsall: A Small Town’s Problems Worsened by British Part...

  

  Walsall Town Centre. Photo credit: Tim Ellis, http://www.flickr.com/photos/tim_ellis/6270563752/ Right now, more than 90 potential business units sit unused in... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2011 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Virginia Tech Shooting Revives Memories of the 2007 Massacre

  

  A vigil at Virginia Tech. Photocredit: Nrbelex http://www.flickr.com/photos/nrbelex/471661031/sizes/z/in/photostream/ At Virginia Tech University (Va Tech) in... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2011 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Rick Perry’s New Ad: Is He Getting Desperate?

  

  The GOP hopeful makes Obama out to be like the Grinch Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2011 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Britain’s Future Dim as Cameron Heads to Brussels for Euro Summit Meeting

  

  David Cameron: What does the Tory rebellion mean? Photo credit: Paumier The eurozone crisis isn’t just a disaster for the monetary union, obviously – but any... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2011 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Alec Baldwin Thrown off Flight for Words With Friends Addiction, Apparently

  

  Was Alec Baldwin so engrossed in his Words With Friends game that he got thrown off an American Airlines flight? Or are the airlines too strict in their rules? Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2011 CELEB, CURRENT, ENTERTAINMENT, SOCIETY

• Clinton Announces Gay Rights at Heart of Foreign Policy

  

  Hillary Clinton. Photocredit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcn/459272490/sizes/m/in/photostream/ The President of the United States of America, Barack Obama,... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2011 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• All I Want for Christmas Is… More Viral Video

  

  Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" is spawning holiday cheer. Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” has, for good or for ill, become... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2011 CURRENT, HUMOR, SOCIETY, VIRAL

• Phone Hacking Scandal: What’s Happened This Week

  

  Grant and Mosley at the Joint Committee into Privacy and injunctions. Source: http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=9614 The scandal that... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2011 CURRENT, MEDIA, SOCIETY

• J Edgar: Eastwood’s Personal Political Biopic is Sure to Win DiCaprio an Oscar

  

  Arguably Clint Eastwood's most challenging subject matter, J. Edgar is a personal and political portrait of the ruthless yet enigmatic former FBI director. Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2011 CURRENT, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, SOCIETY

• Derelict House to Cultural Home: Lambeth’s Hidden Gem

  

  Make Space Studios, Lambeth. Photo credit: Tom Leamon Crossing south of the Thames river in January 2010 in search of my new studio space, having long worked ou... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2011 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• What We Learned About Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg This Week After Private Photo...

  

  Zuckerberg may have killed this himself; in another photo, in which he appears in the same shirt, Zuckerberg is holding a plate of chicken wings. Facebook has... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2011 CURRENT, SOCIAL MEDIA, SOCIETY, TECH

• Cancer Research UK Report: Forty Percent of Cancers Caused by Obesity, Smoking,...

  

  Put the cigarettes down and step away from the steak. Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2011 CURRENT, HEALTH, SOCIETY

• Merkozy Plan: Last Chance to Save the Eurozone Or Death of European Democracy?

  

  French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Photo credit: Sebastian Zwez As the eurozone debt crisis deepens, French President... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2011 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Size Guide: European Map of Penis Size

  

  AlphaDesigner.com As part of their ongoing project of visually mapping national and regional stereotypes, the kind folks at AlphaDesigner. Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2011 BUSINESS, CURRENT, ECONOMICS, SOCIETY

• Tiger Woods Gets the Taiwanese Animation Treatment

  

  Tiger Woods. Photo credit: US Army Tiger Woods first title win in two years (at the Chevron World Challenge on Sunday) has prompted sports writers to seriously... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2011 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Awards: A Celebration

  

  Dominic West and Rachel Johnson, with the coveted award I went to my first Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award in 2004, when Tom Wolfe won the gong for a... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2011 BOOKS, CULTURE