Amanda Thomas - Instablogs
Jun 25 2008
It’s a pretty scary time in the property market these days. Those 95% and 100% mortgages and loans of ridiculous multiples of annual salary that seemed like such a good idea at the time are coming back to bite many where it hurts. And while we...
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Jun 25 2008
This week there has been a huge row again about a major UK clothing chain using child labour in India. I have a problem with this. It is not possible to judge the rest of the world by Western standards. In some countries childhood is a luxury and...
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May 17 2008
I’ve heard it all now! This morning I had just woken up and was listening to the BBC news on the radio when I heard a news piece saying that some ridiculous scientists from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine with not enough to do...
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Apr 22 2008
Good news, after tireless research, I have finally come up with the therapy that has been missing for all these years. It came to me the other evening when I was watching an interminable tale of someone suffering from OCD who took 5 hours to feed her...
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Apr 14 2008
The last time I looked, my licence fee paid grudgingly to the BBC for their broadcast efforts, included radio. This Sunday in the Daily Mail was an article about Sarah Kennedy a querulous old biddy, well past her sell by date who is inflicted on the...
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Apr 7 2008
This Sunday, as well as bringing unseasonable snowfall across Britain saw the Olympic torch arrive on our shores. And what a debacle it’s procession through the streets of London turned out to be. I am stunned at the scenes that I saw yesterday...
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Apr 6 2008
This week saw more revelations about the Shannon Matthews case, with various relatives of her stepfather and he himself being arrested and questioned over child pornography charges. That has made me think. Is child pornography more prevalent today than...
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Apr 5 2008
The other day I was watching one of those car crash TV talk shows; you know the ones, the type that Jerry Springer made so popular. Probably like me you wonder what on earth would induce these people to wash their dirty laundry in public, surely no...
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