Category Archives: uk

Long weekend, part one

By 6000 | 6000 | April 2, 2010

Ah. The opportunity of four days of rest & relaxation. Ja, right. Easter weekend used to be the time that spring started in the UK. Not this year, I hear. But while spring cleaning the garden was the norm there, I find myself doing the same here, despite the fact autumn is setting in – [...]

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Dan and Dan on the Daily Mail

By 6000 | 6000 | March 30, 2010

We’ve had more than a couple of run-ins with the useless tabloid rag which is Britain’s Daily Mail here on 6000 miles… There was that Peter Hitchens racist nonsense, their laughably inaccurate reporting on the Fishhoek shark attack and then, more recently, the whole Jacob “Vile Buffoon” Zuma thing during JZ’s state visit to Britain. It is, [...]

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Striking nastiness

By 6000 | 6000 | March 21, 2010

Not much from me tonight, but here is an interesting story on the current British Airways dispute. To be perfectly honest, I haven’t paid a huge amount of interest as to what is going on between BA and the Unite Union, but as this is slowly boiling down to workers (and the public) taking sides in what seems [...]

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By 6000 | 6000 | March 15, 2010

Uh-oh. The BBC reports: David Beckham’s dream of playing in a fourth World Cup looks over after he tore an Achilles tendon in AC Milan’s 1-0 win over Chievo on Sunday. Beckham was unchallenged when he suffered the injury and hobbled off in pain before being stretchered away. The 34-year-old was hoping to be part [...]

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The Daily Mail quandary – sorted

By 6000 | 6000 | March 3, 2010

I can’t be arsed with the Daily Mail anymore. Who could forget the infamous Peter Hitchens piece in the Daily Mail last year, covered so adequately in my “The Daily Mail Quandary” post? The quandary being that while the Mail is seventeen different sorts of crap and provides a platform to ill-informed and racist bigots, it [...]

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