Early ideas and an invitation
Hello all, you can breathe a sigh of relief because there is to be no long, slightly dull blog post from me outlining my ideas, instead here a few short ones to inspire you a bit.
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So here are my ideas...
We spoke to people in Budapest last night, but maybe this is a story we should return to?
Events to mark the 50th anniversary of Hungary's popular uprising against Communism last night with protesters fighting police and one person succeeding in driving a Soviet-era tank through the streets before being overcome by police.
- Centrist Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert forged an unlikely alliance yesterday with the hard-line Yisrael Beiteinu party, saving his coalition government but also tilting it decidedly to the right. Are voters of Olmert's Kadima party worried?
This is a popular story on the Ö÷²¥´óÐã website:
Current global consumption levels could result in by the middle of the century, environmental group WWF has warned. The group's biannual Living Planet Report said the natural world was being degraded "at a rate unprecedented in human history". But are you worried?
The veil is making headlines in Detroit:
Ginnah Muhammad, 42, is a devout Muslim, so as such, , Friday.
Judge Paul Paruk, in Hamtramck District Court, told Muhammad she had to take off her niqab; a scarf and veil, which covers her face and head except for her eyes, or he would dismiss her case. The judge said he needed to see her face so he could judge her truthfulness when she testified.
Peter just emailed me to suggest these issues which we could discuss, what do you think?
- Statues of canine 'heroes' from the second world war are still being unveiled while the deaths of Iraqi civilians go unrecorded, argues George Monbiot.
- Other people's squiffy logic is easy enough to spot. It's our own that causes the problems. Take the unhappy case of Gabriele Torsello, the photographer seized by the Taliban in Afghanistan. His kidnappers yesterday offered to swap Mr Torsello, a Muslim convert, for Abdul Rahman, an Afghan who sought asylum in Italy after being threatened with death for converting to Christianity.
You can see the neat equivalence in the minds of the Taliban. Two converts. A trip from Rome to Kabul. And vice versa. An eye for an eye and so forth. There is just one problem: both converts would rather be here than there. And who can blame them?
This went up on the Have YOur Say UK site yesterday afternoon -
Do you have sex education in your country? And if not, why not? Do you think its a good idea teaching school children about sex?
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