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Christmas books
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Age discrimination case upheld
I am really glad about thisAll the same, I'm not sure why the sex discrimination case failed - they kept the 70-year-old male presenter (albeit relegating him to his own slot rather than keeping him as the main presenter) and got rid of a 53-year-old female one, when moving the show from Sunday mornings to Sunday evenings, replacing her with some " ( Read more... ) -
Lynn Gilderdale and notability
A few months ago I put together a Wikipedia page on Lynn Gilderdale. It contained a potted history of her life, her illness, the events leading up to her death and her mother's trial, sourced from various newspapers, articles reproduced on various ME-related websites and a couple of the transcripts which are available on my blog. Although I found ( Read more... ) -
Why EastEnders cot death story sucks
Like, I suspect, a lot of former EastEnders viewers, I switched off because of the current cot death / baby swap story. Actually, I did so as soon as it became obvious that this was going to happen: Ronnie (Veronica Branning, played by Samantha Womack) carried her dead baby around the square and eventually into the Vic (the Queen Victoria pub) and ( Read more... ) -
Hi everyone
My name is Matthew Smith. I'm a Muslim (since 1998), a cyclist, an out-of-work small truck driver, and an amateur computer programmer with an interest in the Qt toolkit, from south-west London (England, not Canada, though only Canadians would not realise that).
This isn't my blog. I have this account because I wanted to post comments on articles in ( Read more... )