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Avatar: A good dramatised documentary for kids

Posted in Blog, Other on May 2, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Are big blue fake people more important than real ones? That was the question I was left pondering after watching Avatar last night. When films like Avatar thinly disguise themselves as stories about the European conquest of the Americas and the genocide that followed (substitute “unobtanium” for gold), it seems to touch people deep down. [...]

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My unpublished interview with Fred Halliday

Posted in Blog, Other on May 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »

I was shocked to learn that academic Fred Halliday died in Barcelona last week at the age of 64. Halliday was a lecturer at the LSE (London School of Economics) for over 20 years and more recently, the IBEI (Barcelona Institute for International Studies) and wrote regularly for Opendemocracy and La Vanguardia newspaper. I attended [...]

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The day I met Tiger

Posted in Blog, Other, tagged , , , on December 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »

In the summer of 1997, I served Tiger Woods a frozen margarita in a bar in Monaco. I had been backpacking through France with a friend of mine and while he disappeared with some stoners in Nice, I decided to carry on to Monaco where I intended to terminate my trip and head home. However, [...]

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The boardgame that Graham Taylor invented?

Posted in Blog, Other, tagged , , , , on November 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »

One of the greatest moments in TV history in my mind was the Graham Taylor documentary “The Impossible Job”. Many memorable catchphrases emerged Apart from “Do I Not Like That”, “Platty!!”, “Two-touch and just clip your area” and of course “Can we not knock it!?”. One of my favorites was “I know that you know” [...]

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Bolivia – Land of bad photofits and democracy

Posted in Blog, Other, tagged , , on November 24, 2009 | 5 Comments »

Police in Bolivia have managed to catch a criminal using what’s been called the world’s “worst” photo-fit. For legal reasons, the criminal’s face wasn’t allowed to be shown on TV so the TV station cleverly masked his face with an “enhanced” version of the “artist’s impression” on the right. While Bolivia’s policemen might need to [...]

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Congratulations to natural climate change believers!

Posted in Blog, Other, tagged , , , , , , , on November 16, 2009 | 20 Comments »

You can now stop trying to save us from Al Gore, environmentalists and scientists who have tried to “scare” us all into a “New World Order” of tyrannical government imposed environmental tax hell. Thanks to your tireless efforts and billions of dollars of mainstream media corporate propaganda that’s sown the seeds of doubt, fewer Americans [...]

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The Turkish hard sell has gone soft

Posted in Blog, Other, tagged , , , , on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I recently came back from a much needed break in Turkey after 4 years away from the country. Not much had changed – prices had gone up slightly, new buildings had sprung-up around the flat and the vegetation around the pool had flourished into a Garden of Eden. One thing that had changed however is [...]

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Denmark – full of loose women

Posted in Blog, Other on October 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

That’s not exactly the message you’d imagine a tourist board would want to promote but it seems the Danish Tourist Board “VisitDenmark” thought otherwise. I’ve only just noticed this as it happened a month ago but it’s an absolute classic example of either naive Scandinavian humor getting it completely wrong or a bizarre (some might [...]

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Is this the sickest prank ever?

Posted in Blog, Other, tagged , on October 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Only in Japan:

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Typical woman turning up 4.4 million years late

Posted in Blog, Other on October 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Full story here.

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