Parsnip wins England’s ugliest vegetable contest
A horribly distorted parsnip has won the prize as England’s ugliest vegetable. The competition was created to challenge the idea that tasty fruit and veg must look perfect.
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Greg Palast on ‘The Fear Factory’
I’m going to tell you something which is straight-up heresy: America is not under attack by terrorists. There is no WAR on terror… Greg Palast on why fear sells better than sex and how The War on Terror is the Weapon of Mass Distraction. Read it here. Greg Palast’s investigative reports appear on the BBC, … Greg Palast on ‘The Fear Factory’
Should soya carry a health warning?
From The Guardian.
I’m finding it hard to keep up-to-date with what’s good and what’s bad. An article I read recently suggested it may be more healthy to eat butter rather than margarine…
Tony Blair’s assault on civil liberties
The Independent newspaper has an article (reprinted from Vanity Fair) about the way Tony Blair has eroded civil liberties and freedom in Britain and the scary way
Advertising watchdog investigates Big Brother’s golden ticket draw
The Advertising Standards Authority is to investigate the Big Brother golden ticket draw amid claims it was a fix, says The Guardian. According to The Mail On Sunday: ‘It also emerged the clothes and cups used in the task The State of Susie, which have her face plastered on them, were made before all the … Advertising watchdog investigates Big Brother’s golden ticket draw
The President who cried wolf
Jonathan Freedland of The Guardian says that hyping up the phantom threat from Iraq and invading that country has left Bush and Blair exposed and unable to act now that a ‘real menace’ has come along in the form of Iran… The problem is: Iran does pose a threat in every way Iraq did not.
9m African children have no mum due to AIDS
Mother’s Day is next Sunday, 26 March. But, according to the British charity Save the Children, nine million African children have lost their mum to AIDS…
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