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» @trillingual: Charles Moore, anti-racism and the Macpherson Report

Charles Moore has published a column today in which he attacks the idea that there has been a backlash against Muslims since the Woolwich murder, attacks the work of the monitoring organisation TellMAMA (which is becoming quite an obsession at the Telegraph) and makes the following claims about…

“ So what do you sell when you can’t sell what you make? Everything else.

— The future of the high street is coffee shops as far as the eye can see.The future of news is making money from everything but journalism. And that’s why #guardiancoffee is the future of this industry. A piece by me, at Medium

» Bubbles: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bond

Ireland’s ghost estates are worth less than the land they were built on (“Cows can’t eat fecking concrete” as a NAMA executive pithily put it).

Bubbles: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bond

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Halfway through A Clash of Kings, I’m starting to realise that all the people who said “Game of Thrones isn’t really fantasy, it’s more like historical fiction that just happens to have dragons in it” actually meant “I like a fantasy novel but am embarrassed to admit this”.

» Us Vs Th3m: Cheerful people with insects and spiders crawling all over their exposed and vulnerable, human flesh

usvsth3m:

Why are they so happy? Don’t they know the danger they’re in?

Argh, Jesus, get that thing off him! Why are you smiling, man? Are you insane??

The elbow is the most vulnerable part of the human body! If it sinks its fangs in there, she’ll be done for!

Ugh. Locusts. Feeding on the sweet…

I wrote about why it’s so touching that Faiza Hussein is – however briefly – the living embodiment of Marvel’s Britain.

“ This morning, the Metro, the Guardian and the Telegraph all offer headlines which primarily communicate the message of the murderers, so handing them the media megaphone which their crime was designed to create. They also, in print, can seem to give more shape to what seems a rather more rambling and incoherent rant… Perhaps it is a shame that no newspaper inverted the lens. As one of the killers told her “we want to start a war in London tonight”, the astonishingly brave scout leader Ingrid Loyau-Kennett answered him: “it is only you versus many people. You are going to lose” Could that not have been the stuff of front page headlines too?.. There will be a broader appetite across London to make sure that it is not only the killers who grab the media megaphone. How might the voice of millions who quietly reject the offer of hatred and division make sure that we get a hearing too?

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Sunder Katwala on the Woolwich killing – how the media got it wrong and how the public can get it right.

(via newstatesman)

“ Nowhere near an ocean? Mr. Lospalluto recommends mixing your own with kosher salt and water, using one to two teaspoons of salt per liter of warm water.

— The New York Times offers a recipe for saltwater because they are ON IT.

The hunt for a Google Reader replacement continues

Feedly: No offline access, can’t use it
Newsblur: No offline access, can’t use it
Local syncing on Reeder: No online access, can’t use it
Google Reader: No access from 1 July, can’t use it