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“OMG! That’s disgusting!” Twitter and Stephen Fry’s ‘free speech’ hypocrisy

Compare and contrast: Tuesday last week: The Trafiguragate scandal, whereby the multinational company, through solicitors Carter-Ruck, succeeded in blocking The Guardian newspaper from reporting on parliamentary goings-on, only to be forced into retreat when thousands of Twitter users (including Stephen Fry) got hold of the story and blew it wide open – effectively negating the [...]

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Jan Moir on Stephen Gately – nearly right

Incoming: As a Brit why haven’t you written a post today about this Stephen Gately Death Column by Jan Moir in the Daily Mail and all the scandal it’s causing? Well, OK… Jan Moir’s piece in the Daily Mail about the recent demise of Boyzone’s Stephen Gately was originally titled: Why there was nothing ‘natural’ [...]

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Harper: “I didn’t say that”

Following on from my post about the Natalie Morton case - in which a 14-year old girl died from a thoracic tumour, coincidentally on the day that she received the HPV “Cervical Cancer” vaccine, Cervarix – I was surprised (to say the least) to hear that Diane Harper, a woman involved with the development and testing of HPV [...]

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Best comment on “moon bombing”. Ever.

OK, so I recognise that the moon doesn’t get “bombed” every day, but the hysteria and lack of understanding surrounding this experiment reminds me of the “we’re all going to die” attitude when they switched on the Large Hadron Collider last September. Obviously, we’re all still here. Which is not always good news, because then people can [...]

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Dear Web Africa. Goodbye.

I am ever so excited about your new 10GB ADSL trial. I signed up as soon as I could and as you told me: Dear 6000 Congratulations and thank you for signing up in time to participate and receive your 10 Gigs of FREE bandwidth! We have hit our target of 5, 000 sign ups. [...]

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