Saturday, September 26, 2009

Top 30 - 27 September 2009

Louise Redknapp on a more useful mission
Claire Sweeney's big fat... What exactly was Claire Sweeney's motivation to put on as much weight as possible in a short time?








an early example of Jihad: Mohammed's army massacres the Jewish Banu Qurayzah tribe
Running from the void Key points in Mohammed's life and a comparison with his reaction to the temptation to power to Jesus's. An attempt to release more heat than light in the run-up to the trial of the Vogelenzangs, who have been accused of insulting Islam.






contains spoilers!Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows From Harry Potter through such stopping points as Odysseus and back - but contains spoilers: big ones!







there's more to life than teethThe orthodoxy of orthodonty There's more to life than perfect teeth.








an unborn crocodile inside its shellCrocs, giraffes and the vagrant nerve: inside nature's giants Richard Dawkins attends the dissection of a giraffe's recurent laryngeal nerve by,among others, Joy Reidenberg, but fails to forward his agenda with the innervation of unborn vertebrates.






Hallelujah, there's always hope.Top Ten songs about HopeIn darker times it's good to reflect, among other things, on those parts of popular culture that point towards another place - upstairs, as it were.







then three come at the same timeDon't go down the road to hell, it's jammed with bendy-buses How an amusing article by comedienne Ariane Sherine was subverted by radical militant atheists with sinister agendas.







she may still be aliveThe price of not being a victim Abducted toddler Madeleine McCann's parents have paid the price in spades for not playing the victim role for the more manipulative sectors of the media.







what if they were white British people protesting against Muslim soldiers?How diverse is diversity? On a diversity course, a left-leaning friend of mine pointed out that diversity isn't a good in itself, and pointed to Adolf Hitler as the most diversity-aware leader of modern times. I'm working on putting him in touch with his inner conservative.







choose lifeWhen agendas come together On why it can be wrong to permit euthanasia and to give a liver transplant to somebody who had tried to kill himself. Written before the Liverpool Care Pathway controversy, and contains a discussion of suicide.







celebrity culture eats its own children, and nobody profits more than editors like Abigail BlackburnAbigail Blackburn and the truth about pregorexia Celebrity culture eats its own children, and nobody profits more than editors like Abigail Blackburn.







don't make a titanic mistake: women and children firstWomen and children first The Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre remains open - just - but a women's refuge in Dorset is being closed down because it doesn't cater for men.






Anne FrankAnne Frank In the display on Anne Frank in Cambridge's Addenbrooke's Hospital - the foundation was delivering diversity training - we saw the world famous picture of Anne staring into a future she would never see.







The Simpsons: a pro-life force?How The Simpsons made my day As my faith in my ability to stand against politically correct anti-life fascism faltered, I little suspected that The Simpsons would come to my rescue.






Oh Gillian, why didn't you become a dentist?Blood, tears and celebrity dentists An NHS dentist resembling Brad Pitt comes to the rescue of a woman badly served by profiteers.







Maureen Hamilton, who allowed her last days to be captured to show young people the risks of smokingUnderage smoking is more stupid than criminal An unorthodox but time-honoured way to discourage an underage smoker.







Dame Kiri Te KanawaThe passions of Kiri Te Kanawa Dame Kiri Te Kanawa will soon be retiring from Opera, but will remain active in teaching singers how to produce the music she is so passionate about. Simon Cowell need not apply.







swine flu - keep calm and carry onSwine flu - is it time to panic yet? The stampede of people who sought to have themselves diagnosed (or otherwise) with swine flu on the government website/helpline smacked of panic.







the controversial painting of Jesus washing the feet of world leadersMaunday Thursday - beyond the comfort zone When I admitted at Morning Prayer that not going to Church was becoming as normal as going had once been, our Curate replied with one of Christianity's greatest weapons - hilarity; one of the suggestions was to chain me to a pew.







An early appearance of the golliwog in gallant modeGolliwog-gate:the racism of anti-racists When Carol Thatcher, daughter of the former prime-minister, was accused of racism, were there sinister undercurrents at play?







Top ten songs about places Sometimes songs about places strike a chord, and can stay with us over a lifetime.







a faroese stamp depicting fin whalesWhales and unintelligent evolution: Inside Nature's Giants The on-site autopsy of a huge fin-whale that grounded itself and died on Courtmacsherry Bay in Cork.







gentle giants: elephants with calfElephants, Arthritis and Euthanasia: Inside Nature's Giants Channel 4's cerebral treatment of a post-mortem on an elephant.







Alexander RybakEurovision Song Contest 2009 - the music won Alexander Rybak took the prize at the best Eurovision for years. It's just a pity Terry Wogan had to retire to get the sleaze stopped.







DJ Jimmy Saville presenting 'Top of the Pops in 1979, the year of Margaret Thatcher's first electionJimmy Saville presents Top of the Pops in 1979Margaret Thatcher - it was 30 years ago today The anniversary of the election of Great Britain's greatest peacetime prime-minister.







Gail Trimble, Corpus Christi College's 'human google'Why does the BBC hate intelligent women? The BBC's shameful persecution of Oxford's Corpus Christi College University Challenge team, fronted by the "human google" Gail Trimble, revealed the corporation's underlying misogyny.







can anybody tell me the name of this painting?
Advent - preparing for the preparation Meditating on the Magnificat can take you to strange places.







Sarah KennedyHot gossip: Sarah Kennedy and the obvious observation Sarah Kennedy committed the closest thing to a mortal sin in the BBC by calling Enoch Powell the greatest Prime Minister Britain never had.







portrait of Charles DarwinThe ichneumon delusion Review of the first of three programmes in which Richard Dawkins ostensibly celebrates the bicentenary of Charles Darwin's birh, but in reality announces his self-apotheosis.







cover of Night-FightersNight Fighters Some wars are with us for a long time - Colin Heaton's and Anne-Marie Lewis's authoratative history of the night-war over Europe 1939-1945, and the advances in many fields which came about as a result.

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