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Tag Archives: Slate
Friday Links
Happy Friday! It’s always good to get to the end of the week and onto the weekend! Tonight I have friends coming for dinner and other fun stuff planned for the rest of the weekend. This week’s links… 1) Tax … Continue reading
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Tagged baptism, CoE, comedy, Cote d'Ivoire, faith, football, Giles Fraser, gun control, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Marina Hyde, Oliver James, Slate, street children, tax avoidance, the Gift of Singleness, The Guardian, valentines day, what the rich don't understand about wealth and poverty
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Friday Links on Saturday night
Friday was cancelled because of a migraine and Saturday has been quite busy. So this is a bit late! 1) Giles Fraser on Thomas More and the human capacity for love and cruelty. 2) Dresden, bombing and the rise of … Continue reading
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Tagged Allied Bombing, Dresden, Germany, Giles Fraser, Obama, Pegida, Prayer Breakfast, Slate, The Guardian, Thomas More, WWII
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Friday Links
Happy Friday! I hope you’re all as happy to get to Friday as I am! Here are this week’s links… 1) This, all of this. I’m am not a mother but I can have an opinion on parenting. 2) Harry Baker … Continue reading
Friday Links
Happy Friday! It’s been a very long week, here are this week’s links… The Worst Jobs in the World. I think the title is hyperbole but it’s worth a read if Monday left you a jibbering, wreck that hates their … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Proud, and doesn't understand the Constitution he's sworn to uphold, bad jobs, Charlie Hebdo, Clare Allan, dentists, Hadley Freeman, Jezabel, June Thomas, medicaid, politician threatens journalist, Prince Andrew, Simon Jenkins, Slate, terrorism, The Guardian, The Telegraph, US healthcare, ways to improve the country
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Friday Links
Happy Friday, people. I’ve returned to normal this week, five days at work, regular bedtimes and general pottering. It feels good but I’m really pleased to have got to Friday! 1. Not having a TV means that the annual Christmas … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion, cartoon, Cerys Matthews, Christianity, christmas, Christmas Music, clinic buffer zones, Dean Burnett, poverty, Private Schools, Slate, state schools, The Guardian
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Friday Links
Happy Friday! Not many links this week, I had a migraine Monday and Tuesday and have been running around for the rest of the week so no time to read.. 1. An escalator for cyclists. 2. Tell me again that … Continue reading
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Tagged bicycle escalator, housing, Oliver Burkeman, Slate, The Guardian
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Friday Links
Happy Friday! This week felt busier than it should have been but hurrah, I’m at the end of it and I get Saturday to lie in and then sort my living space out because on Sunday I’m at Oli’s birthday … Continue reading
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Tagged Boris Johnson, Britain isn't Eating, Detroit, digital immigrants, dual citizenship, Food poverty, gin, Hanna Rosin, Lauren Lavern, microplays, Plymouth Gin, Royal Court, Slate, tax evasion, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Observer, Tracie McMillian, Whole Foods
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Friday Links
Happy Friday! How happy my Friday will be really depends how well the painting goes today, I’d love to revel in a day off work but I’ll be working today but for my mother rather than in the office! … Continue reading
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Tagged Aditya Chakrabortty, benefit, benefit fraud, dyslexia, fonts, housing, Introverts, Katherine Sacks-Jones, New Era, Richard Benyon, Slate, The Guardian
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Friday Links
Happy Friday! I’m really glad to get to the end of this week because tonight I’m going to see Old Crow Medicine Show at the Roundhouse. I’m so excited I might actually burst with it… There are quite a few … Continue reading
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Tagged funding, funerals, funerals are expensive, Hanna Rosin, it's the economy stupid, Jay Rayner, Katha Pollitt, london, low pay, paupers funerals, Pause, Polly Toynbee, Pro, Renee Zellweger, sex education, Slate, Social Services, The Guardian, Tube, Underground signs, women in the public eye, Zoe Williams
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Friday Links
1) This is just fascinating from the point of view of how to motivate your staff. Precation perks 2) This is just around the corner from me. Ealing has been covered in yellow ribbons and Ma and I were talking … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Gross, precation, Rio Ferdinand is an idiot, Slate, The Guardian
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