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SEIZURE OF PEACE SHIP
3rd July 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
While our attention has been diverted by the death of Michael Jackson there has been an incident in the Middle East that has been ignored by the world's media.
On the 30th June, a Free Gaza ship, named the Spirit of Humanity, was carrying aid and toys for the besieged children of the Gaza strip. On board this ship were film-maker, Ismahil Blagrove, Nobel Prize winner and co-founder of the Community... -
Anyone Want An Olympic Stadium?
1st July 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Do you remember how everyone whooped, hollered and screamed in Trafalgar Square when it was announced that the 2012 Olympic Games was to be held in London? Now Londoners are raging, cursing and swearing because we now realise that the proposed cost of the Olympics was a ridiculous guess and we will pay much of the billions of pounds shortfall through raised council taxes (not the first and last time...
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Anyone for tennis in a comprehensive?
29th June 2009 | 5 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Nine out of eleven British players lost in the first round of Wimbledon this year. One of the two who didn't lose, Andy Murray, was sent by his mother, Judy, to develop and hone his career in Spain. She simply couldn't rely on the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) to bring out the best in her son. In fact Judy, so dismayed at the inability of the LTA to nurture young...
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Memories Of Michael Jackson
29th June 2009 | 5 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Returning home from junior school in the early 1970s the cartoons of the day were Wait Til Your Father Gets Home, The Flintstones, The Wacky Races, Penelope Pitstop, Scooby Doo. Not any of the aforementioned had a leading black character in them until the cartoon adventures of the Jackson 5. It was almost unbelievable to see animated black kids, a little older than myself, on the TV screen. At last,...
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Alex Wheatle
Alex Wheatle was born in 1963 to Jamaican parents living in London. He spent most of his childhood in a children's home which he left at 14 to live in a hostel in Brixton. At 18 he was involved in the Brixton uprising and went to prison for 3 months. On his release, he continued to perform as a DJ and MC under the name Yardman Irie, moving in the early '90s onto the performance poetry circuit as the Brixton Bard. His second novel, East Of Acre Lane, won the London New Writers Award (2000) The Dirty South is his sixth novel. He received an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2008.
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