Synod Decides Whether to Allow Women Bishops
Saturday, July 5th, 2008 Posted in Africa, Asia, Europe, News, Women | No Comments »Oh. Please. I can't believe that this is even an issue. Can women do the job? Yes. Does God mind women? There isn't a reason why he should - unless he's still got hangups about that apple thing. What need does ...
Designer Yves Saint Laurent Dies in Paris at 71
Sunday, June 1st, 2008 Posted in Europe, News, Women, beauty products | No Comments »The designer Yves Saint Laurent has died in Paris at 71 years of age. He became chief designer at Dior at the early age of 21 after being spotted by Christian Dior four years earlier at a dress design competition. ...
Nepal Becomes a Republic
Sunday, June 1st, 2008 Posted in Asia, Current Affairs, News | 2 Comments »Nepal is in the final stages of booting out its centuries-old monarchy. The royal flag has been lowered at the main palace and the new national flag hoisted in its place. A new assembly has voted out the royal administration, ...
BBC Puts Pictures of Hanging on the Internet
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 Posted in Europe, Middle East, News | 1 Comment »Is it just me or is it not slightly distressing to see a photo of two young men about to be hanged? In a piece about Mehdi Kazemi, a gay Iranian student who has mercifully won his asylum case, the ...
British Food: Imports, Seasons and Gordon Ramsay
Friday, May 9th, 2008 Posted in Africa, Americas, Climate Change, Europe, News | 1 Comment »Gordon Ramsay has suggested that Britain should fine restaurants that use out-of-season fruit and vegetables. I'm glad he's not going to fine me. Only this morning, whilst making the Great English Breakfast, I used a tin of beans. The beans ...
News from Around the World
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in Africa, Americas, Current Affairs, Europe, Far East, Middle East, News, Politics, Sport | No Comments »I check the news every day on the websites of various major UK newspapers. I often see that all the headlines are the same and I get a sense that I don't really know much more about the world as ...
Amazon Kindle - The Future of Reading?
Saturday, March 29th, 2008 Posted in Blogging, General, Iphone Competition, News | No Comments »For ages now, we've all been saying that there will come a time, and a device, that will see us reading content and news straight from a device, and the old paper format disappearing. There have been several limitations to this, ...
Things I Won’t Be Writing About Today
Saturday, March 29th, 2008 Posted in Blogging, Current Affairs, General, News, Rob's Pulpit | No Comments »Everyone writes about the same stuff, so today I won't be mentioning: Earth Hour - That was so last year! In fact, I covered it then, and now everyone has copied me; including Google Blacking Out - Google's gone black. Wow. They ...
Recession Can Be Good
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 Posted in Americas, Current Affairs, Europe, News | No Comments »Time for a holiday to America. If you haven't been taken in by offers of store cards, credit cards with 18% interest or mortgages that will go up by hundreds of pounds this summer, it might be a rather opportune ...
Swearing an Oath to the Queen at School -No Thanks
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 Posted in News, Politics | 1 Comment »I'm glad I never had to swear an oath of allegiance to the Queen and country at school. I'm a republican and don't think it's in the interests of the country or democracy to uphold the aristocracy. Also, I'm not ...