Alright, so another post that veers towards the political, despite my pledge not to do so… In Switzerland, a law has been passed prohibiting the construction of any more minarets. As I understand it (being very much not Swiss) mosques may still be built, but the minaret, the more visible symbol of the faith, will …
Monthly Archive: November 2009
Nov
30
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Nov
29
Broadgate
My camera is broken. I am deeply upset by this fact for a number of reasons, but thankfully, I discover I’ve built up a silly archive of pics from the last few months, and since I dislike blogs without at least the odd splash of colour here or there, I figured the time had come …
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Nov
29
The Protection of Children Act 1999
I have always tried to be as non-political as I can when writing this blog, and on this matter in particular, will try and step as carefully as possible, since this is one of those cases where not only can I see both sides of the argument, but I don’t yet know enough about it, …
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Nov
19
Up
There are only two things on TV that make me cry – the Lion King (and who doesn’t?) and footage of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The first… well… like I said… who doesn’t… and the second… I guess something about studying the Cold War from beginning to end gives the end a certain …
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Nov
18
District 9 – South Africa
So, we (myself and a gentleman who’ll go by the name of TLC from hereon in…) went to see District 9. I sort of did and sort of didn’t know what to expect; whether we were dealing with a pure blood n’ guts fest, or whether this was a different sort of science fiction movie …
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Nov
17
Busy Busy Busy…
It has, once again, been an age since I blogged and so, once again, I will do my thing of blogging about why I haven’t blogged… For the last 6 weeks, as all here know, I have been Production Electrician for a RADA student production of Crimes in Hot Countries, by Howard Barker – a …
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