html> We wait anxiously to hear from universities about how the household teenagers’ applications have gone for the chance to study later in 2013. And if we hold our breaths for a while that’s okay. In the meantime, competing for hero status, is Miss Yousafzai – discharged today from Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham after…
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America faces harsh new non-fiction
by Dominic O'Byrne •
America faces harsh new non-fiction On December 15th when I posted 27 people who were alive yesterday would still be alive today if US fantasists were denied access to US fantasies, I wasn’t being funny. The slaughter of 20 schoolchildren and six of their teachers in a sleepy Connecticut town wasn’t a crime…
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Gonzo Animal Welfare
by Dominic O'Byrne •
Gonzo Animal Welfare I subscribe to a number of spoof websites (No…! Surely not!) and I honestly thought I had opened the wrong URL instead of the BBC address I use as my wake-up home page. This was due to a story I encountered filed by a Beeb reporter Animal Welfare: Germany Moves to Ban…
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Happy Ersatz Christmas
by Dominic O'Byrne •
I have friends, business associates and family in America. Some are born & bred and some are expats who have chosen to live there. Good luck to them. I myself am awestruck by pictures of Connecticut in the autumn (Fall), a snow-dolloped Vermont in Winter (Winter) and the unconditional charm of the Floridians in January…