Aug 21, 2009 -
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/ian-birrell-why-i-dont-believe-that-the-nhs-is-sacrosanct-1775088.html
Ian Birrell: Why I don't believe that the NHS is sacrosanct
In this heartfelt polemic, based on his family's experiences in the health service, our writer argues that it suffers from deep flaws – and we are wrong to ignore them
David Sandison
Ian Birrell's 15-year-old daughter Iona with her mother, Linnet
enlarge
It was a simple thing. Another blood test, some more investigations into whatever flawed gene or missing protein might be the cause of my daughter's troubled life, with her terrible seizures, her blindness, her inability to walk or talk or eat unaided. Over the past 15 years, there have been many such attempts to identify her condition.
- 21 Comments
Apr 10, 2009 -
PUBLIC POST *
Barack Obama: President Pantywaist - new surrender monkey on the block
Posted by The Political Class
Friday, April 10th at 2:14PM EDT
A reporter with The UK Telegraph doesn’t hold back any punches with his review of Obama’s overseas trip. ...
President Barack Obama has recently completed the most successful foreign policy tour since Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow.
- 5 Comments
Mar 12, 2009 -
Marnie Pearce, mother of two, jailed over a cup of tea
British mum had tea with male friend
Husband claiming adultery, wants kids
World news: Latest around the globe
A BRITISH mother of two is being held in jail after being found guilty of adultery - for having a cup of tea with a male friend.
Marnie Pearce, 40, had separated from her Egyptian husband Ihab El-Labban when he burst into her Dubai home and found her drinking tea with another man.
Mr El-Labban now has custody of their two children - Ziad, 4, and Laith, 7 - and former classroom assistant Ms Pearce fears she may never see them again because she will be deported as soon as she is released.
- 24 Comments
Apr 01, 2008 -
Renée Zellweger and George Clooney have been pals for a long time – long enough, it seems, that even wise-cracking about their personal lives comes easy.
In a new interview with the U.K. edition of Marie Claire, the pair – who costar together in the new movie Leatherheads – have a good laugh about their views on marriage.
- 0 Comments
Mar 07, 2008 -
When it comes to Amy Winehouse, nothing surprises me! Wino has allegedly been seen snorting vodka, reports The UK's Mirror.
She was allegedly seen inhaling vodka at Bungalow 8 while out partying with Kelly Osbourne, Kimberley Stewart, and Mark Ronson.
- 2 Comments
Nov 06, 2007 -
Vanity Fair magazine - Nov 2007: Legends
Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg on the set of the movie Slogan, June 1968. By Gilles Caron/Contact Press Images.
The Secret World of Serge Gainsbourg
Sixteen years after Serge Gainsbourg's death, his small, graffiti-covered Paris house is almost exactly as he left it—crammed with mementos of his poetic, nicotine-and-alcohol-fueled, sometimes scandalous life as France's most adored singer-songwriter, lover of Jane Birkin and Brigitte Bardot, and friend to countless taxi drivers and policemen.
- 3 Comments
Sep 18, 2007 -
By PHIL GALLO
Presented by AEG Live. Reviewed Jan. 9, 2007.
- 0 Comments
Sep 04, 2007 -
Source: National Geographic magazine, Sept. 2007
By Karen E. Lange
Photographs by Robert Clark
Using CT scans and radiocarbon dating, investigators hope to make sense of the bodies preserved in Europe’s wetlands.
- 6 Comments