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Frost's Meditations fourth series

From September 1st 2006 through November 30th 2006


Graphic of 'blind justice'Contains selected articles which may be of interest and value to the modern polymath and students of Scottish, United Kingdom and International  affairs
in the areas of politics, religion, literature, human endeavour and science.

Please scroll down for earlier postings

First series of meditations 7th December 2004 through February 2005
Second series of meditations 20th February 2005 through 30th December 2005
Third series of meditations 1st January 2006 through August 31st 2006
Fifth series of meditations  1st December 2006 through May 31st 2007
Sixth series of meditations June 1st 2007 through December 31st 2007
Seventh series of meditations January 1st 2008 through June 28th 2008
Eight series of meditations June 30th through December 31st 2008
Ninth series of meditations January 1st 2009 through July 9th 2009

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From November 26th 2006

(EGA) Mess of this hubristic madness
(EGB) West losing patience with Putin
(EGC) World news briefs at 27-11-06
(EGD) UK Breakup
(EGE) EU change to UK wills
(EGF) I support Rowan
(EGG) Labour fights for the Union
(EGH) Make these bodies count
(EGI) Chinese way to Olympics
(EGJ) Tony Blair's lasting legacy
(EGK) Champion of Christianity
(EGL) Tut's death a bad break
(EGM) Block on Labour Peerages detailed
(EGN) World news briefs at 28-11-06
(EGO) AIDS anniversary
(EGP) Congo's children
(EGQ) Contagious shooting
(EGR) Giving thanks
(EGS) India's God
(EGT) Iran's reply
(EGU) Netherlands and the media
(EGV) Pope to visit Turkey
(EGW) Tarin Kowt - five years on
(EGX) World news briefs at 29-11-06
(EGY) War of the imagination
(EGZ) End of an empire

From November 29th 2006

(EHA) Scotland's snipes
(EHB) There are no accidents
(EHC) Vampires - it's genetic
(EHD) Why religion must end
(EHE) Turkish suspicion
(EHF) Saint Andrew
(EHG) On St Andrew's Day
(EHH) World news briefs at 30-11-06
(EHI) Aids health and wealth
(EHJ) Bush, Chirac and NATO
(EHK) Castro too sick to party
(EHL) Forgotten things
(EHM) Gloves off veil on
(EHN) Homeless children in UK
(EHO) In the red
(EHP) Is it or isn't it?
(EHQ) It's official
(EHR) Male pregnancy
(EHS) Bird flu cull in Korea
(EHT) STI awareness
(EHU) World news briefs at 01-12-06
(EHV) Anxiety
(EHW) Dutch right wing
(EHX) Jedi Knights in the UK
(EHY) War or genocide - media decides
(EHZ) Why we worry

From November 21st 2006

(EEA) Scotland's firearms & homicides
(EEB) World news briefs at 22-11-06
(EEC) Bermuda triangles in Norfolk
(EED) Israel's cluster bombs
(EEE) Mills - fraud claims again
(EEF) Milton Friedman
(EEG) Russian spy games
(EEH) Russian view of US culture
(EEI) USA tries to destroy Russia
(EEJ) PGP is fifteen years old
(EEK) PIN wide open to insider attack
(EEL) Parents beware
(EEM) World news briefs at 23-11-06
(EEN) Some biznews at 23-11-06
(EEO) 39 million
(EEP) Dutch courage
(EEQ) China stealth crime
(EER) Driver beats fine
(EES) It won't go away
(EET) Milton Lost
(EEU) Israeli snipers
(EEV) Best ever lawyer joke
(EEW) World news briefs at 24-11-06
(EEX) Some business news at 24-11-06
(EEY) HIV in China
(EEZ) Lebanon polarised

From November 24th 2006

(EFA) Dutch torture allegations
(EFB) Europe's White Elephant
(EFC) More on Burqa Ban
(EFD) Nazi Insights
(EFE) No wine for India
(EFF) Digital Civil Rights in Europe
(EFG) Web of dispute
(EFH) Hands off our bank data - Europe
(EFI) Litvinenko dies
(EFJ) Polonium - buy it online
(EFK) Stone's Stormont Security Shambles
(EFL) Another JFK murder hypothesis
(EFM) Panda Porn
(EFN) Bushisms
(EFO) New high for the UK
(EFP) Islam and the west
(EFQ) Clunking fist
(EFR) Winning in Iraq
(EFS) World news briefs at 25-11-06
(EFT) World news briefs at 26-11-06
(EFU) Tetouan Tale
(EFV) A good laugh
(EFW) 20 funny reasons
(EFX) French colonial legacy of despair
(EFY) Lives at risk over cheap bullets
(EFZ) Iran builds up nuclear defences
From November 17th 2006

(ECA) Euphemisms in troubled times
(ECB) Breaching human rights
(ECC) Annan on Darfur
(ECD) Housing crash yet to come
(ECE) Significant material found
(ECF) World news briefs at 18-11-06
(ECG) Some business news at 18-11-06
(ECH) Dutch burqa ban
(ECI) A species gone mad
(ECJ) To the victors
(ECK) Ticket costs
(ECL) Solar system heats up
(ECM) A tense calm
(ECN) Cracked it
(ECO) Hooked on tanning
(ECP) Spider's bite
(ECQ) Who are you calling bird brain?
(ECR) Artic cooling
(ECS) Rumsfeld speech
(ECT) Scottish poet and troubador
(ECU) World news briefs at 19-11-06
(ECV) Blair's disasterous interview
(ECW) A true super power
(ECX) Bad muslims
(ECY) Fun stories
(ECZ) Lending to Labour

From November 19th 2006
From November 11th 2006

(EAA) Gates of hell
(EAB) Gorilla aids link
(EAC) How bad can it get
(EAD) Jerusalem gay pride
(EAE) What changes?
(EAF) Games up for hedge fund managers
(EAG) Wystan Auden
(EAH) Compare bloodshed
(EAI) US polls - opinion from Pakistan
(EAJ) Fake heart & cancer drugs seized
(EAK) Forestry's employment record
(EAL) Kosovo - a frozen conflict
(EAM) Russia to join WTO
(EAN) Meme - the terrorist virus
(EAO) Women as flack-jackets
(EAP) Killing the world twice over
(EAQ) Blair, Labour Party and Loans
(EAR) Rebuilding incomplete
(EAS) Some health and science news
(EAT) News perspective from Teheran
(EAU) Horsing about Down Under
(EAV) North Korea perspectives
(EAW) World news briefs at 14-11-06
(EAX) Hatred may be ugly
(EAY) No longer a joke
(EAZ) Taliban ministry established

From November 14th 2006

(EBA)  Wrong problem, wrong solution
(EBB) Too many graduates, too many Unis
(EBC) Preparing for a military Japan
(EBD) 17000 mile journey of a prawn
(EBE) Al Jazeera defiant over dead soldiers
(EBF) Blair's new Middle East plan
(EBG) Cow milk against AIDS
(EBH) Some world news briefs at 15-11-06
(EBI) Ramadan Trophies - beheaded girls
(EBJ) Victory commended
(EBK) Boycott to end?
(EBL) World news briefs at 16-11-06
(EBM) Business news at 16-11-06
(EBN) Hate bill will pass
(EBO) Judaism vs Jews
(EBP) Muslim Christmas
(EBQ) White, poor and male
(EBR) White working class
(EBS) Zulu legend
(EBT) World news briefs at 17-11-06
(EBU) Why is Iran talking?
(EBV) The French Hillary
(EBW) Peeping toms
(EBX) Pakistan's new rape laws

(EBY) Migrants disease
(EBZ) Kazakhstan's advance

From November 6th 2006

(DYA) Lost memories
(DYB) Muslim hypocrisy
(DYC) Obeying orders
(DYD) So you think you are English
(DYE) Too fat to be soldiers
(DYF) Welsh hepatitis
(DYG) Climate chaos
(DYH) A new empire
(DYI) A new democracy

(DYJ) Explaining why
(DYK) Reckoning of the dead

(DYL) Fence of lies
(DYM) World news briefs at 07-11-06
(DYN) World news briefs at 08-11-06
(DYO) A green airplane
(DYP) BNP trial
(DYQ) The future of fish
(DYR) India's arms trade
(DYS) Pakistan fences
(DYT) Pakistan court
(DYU) Quran and the veil
(DYV) US death toll is minute
(DYW) A quiet middle class boy
(DYX) America's acupuncture points
(DYY) God politics
(DYZ) Lung cancer gone

From November 9th 2006

(DZA) World news briefs at 09-11-06
(DZB) Being Brave
(DZC) Victoria Cross
(DZD) Brown's tax tinkering
(DZE) Of cows and men
(DZF) Real Manchurian candidate
(DZG)Veil - on or off
(DZH) London Eyes
(DZI) World news briefs at 11-11-06
(DZJ) Some business news at 11-11-06
(DZK) On the Victoria Cross
(DZL) The goose and the gander
(DZM) The rape of europe
(DZN) Israeli massacre
(DZO) Terrorism generator
(DZP) Unleashing Christ
(DZQ) US still conservative
(DZR) A hard act to follow
(DZS) Dolphin surprise
(DZT) UK motoring comeback
(DZU) World news briefs at 11-11-06
(DZV) Tale of two poppies
(DZW) Blessed Israel
(DZX) BNP duo cleared
(DZY) Do we need an army?
(DZT) Evangelical oops

From November 1st 2006

(DWA) Pakistan at war
(DWB) Unmarried divorce
(DWC) US energy challenge
(DWD) Opec says UK report unfounded
(DWE) Media bias in US mid-term elections
(DWF) Pinochet charged
(DWG) Royal absurdity
(DWH) Saving earth
(DWI) RFID passport hacks
(DWJ) World news briefs at 02-11-06
(DWK) Caffeine high
(DWL) Banning trans fats
(DWM) Bush versus DPRK
(DWN) Let them rip
(DWO) Pre-ordained or pre-meditated
(DWP) Sex surveyed
(DWQ) P.W Botha
(DWR) John Kerry boobs again
(DWS) Echo from the past
(DWT) World news briefs at 02-11-06
(DWU) Ancestoral breeding
(DWV) Fountain of youth
(DWW) Science of the web
(DWX) Ozone and health
(DWY) Islamic concept of God
(DWZ) Russia theatens Georgia over gas

From November 4th 2005

(DXA) Is it war or a crime?
(DXB) Israel at war again
(DXC) News of the world
(DXD) UK's shifting population
(DXE) Microsoft embraces Linux
(DXF) Homeopathy under attack
(DXG) The non PC viennese pissoir
(DXH) World news briefs 05-11-06
(DXI) Economy and empire
(DXJ) Iman and Van Gogh
(DXK) Israeli coalition
(DXL) Its Panama
(DXM) Legalised protitution
(DXN) Licensed to kill
(DXO) Our Columbian habit
(DXP) Sad
(DXQ) Bute house party
(DXR) Global arrogance
(DXS) Fifth column
(DXT) China in Africa
(DXU) Another dodgy dossier
(DXV) Saddam sentenced to death
(DXW) World news briefs at 06-11-06
(DXX) Dollar meltdown
(DXY) Goldsmith fury
(DXZ) Hitler, Bush and the Vatican


From October 27th 2006

(DUA) The way forward

(DUB) Action call on internet freedom
(DUC) World news briefs at 28-10-06
(DUD) Dole it out
(DUE) The scent of money
(DUF) The gathering storm
(DUG) Secular safety
(DUH) In the Congo
(DUI) Is sex necessary?
(DUJ) Neo-nazis in Germany
(DUK) A Cuban itch
(DUL) Hilali and the suggestive women
(DUM) There is no such thing
(DUN) France's Intifada injures 2600
(DUO) World news briefs at 29-10-06
(DUP) US condom aid
(DUQ) Double speak
(DUU) Who needs Mr Right
(DUV) German photos, German pride
(DUW) War in the ghettoes
(DUX) Le Carre and the Congo
(DUY) Stuck in the canal
(DUZ) Karzai's talks offer rejected by Omar

From October 30th 2006

(DVA) World news briefs at 30-10-06
(DVB) Who's afraid of Iran's bomb?
(DVC) This one God stuff
(DVD) The next frontier
(DVE) The bottled water lie
(DVF) Israel's uranium bomb
(FVG) Africa's rape shame
(DVH) Man who bought chess
(DVI) Closing in on Blair
(DVJ) World news briefs at 31-10-06
(DVK) Pakistan admits holding Rashid Rauf
(DVL) The Indo European model
(DVM) Velvet revolutions
(DVN) Bare headed in Iraq
(DVO) Abortion back in the news
(DVP) Perpetual youth
(DVQ) As others see us - teamwork
(DVU) Newspaper circulations drop
(DVV) World news briefs at 01-11-06
(DVW) China's flash divorces
(DVX) Hell awaits the US
(DVY) On emotions
(DVZ) Problem with morality

From October 22nd 2006

(DSA) Once more around the world
(DSB) Human species split
(DSC) World news briefs at 23-10-06
(DSD) An undiscovered country
(DSE) Best friends - a dying breed
(DSF) Can a podcast beat a terrorist?
(DSG) Floating pile of rubble
(DSH) Historic lies
(DSI) Organising the dying process
(DSJ) Race riots over muslim veil
(DSK) Teens get texty
(DSL) The best place to die
(DSM) Aberfan
(DSN) Bush is no JFK
(DSO) World news briefs at 24-10-06
(DSP) Hungary's revolutionary woes
(DSQ) Iraq in control
(DSR) Alcohol and rape law
(DSS) Iraq to outlast WW2
(DST) Open door closed
(DSU) Refugee children behind bars
(DSV)
(DSW) Israel - marriage for non-jews?
(DSX) World news briefs at 25-10-06
(DSY) IVF or Sex?
(DSZ) Walk it off

From October 25th 2006

(DTA) Khartoum is booming
(DTB) Gestures say it all
(DTC) Broken Mirrors and Autism
(DTD) The Western Horse
(DTE) Marriage no longer relevant
(DTF) Hacking contactless credit cards
(DTG) Big bang 20 years on
(DTH) Korea - cracking the hermit kingdom
(DTI) Deuss - Chief Executive under arrest
(DTJ) Don't mess with Thatcher generation
(DTK) World news briefs at 26-10-06
(DTL) 300 years of the Union?
(DTM) Last days of feudal Sark
(DTN) Sexual selection
(DTO) War on internet child abuse
(DTP) Eat your greens
(DTQ) Pakistan, PAK and Mumbai
(DTR) Vagina comeback
(DTS) Fighing spirit saves pensioner
(DTT) World news briefs at 27-10-06
(DTU) Ancient agriculture
(DTV) Controlling the Euro
(DTW) He'll be back
(DTX) Honey bee body clock
(DTY) Libyan AIDS victims
(DTZ) Of Royal parentage
From October 17th 2006

(DQA) World news briefs at 17-10-06
(DQB) Curtailing Freedom of Information
(DQC) Data sharing 40 million bank accounts
(DQD) China's child poverty reform
(DQE) Grief
(DQF) Have another drink girls

(DQG) Piltdown's lessons
(DQH) The Georgia question
(DQI) War of words
(DQJ) UK Outsourcing doubles
(DQK) The ship of fools
(DQL) World news briefs at 18-10-06
(DQM) Secrets of fossils
(DQN) Web rage
(DQO) Dutch suspect in court
(DQP) Quantanamo detainees refused
(DQQ) Mark of separation
(DQR) Shooting China
(DQS) UK Police State
(DQT) Saint Bono's tax move
(DQU) World news briefs at 19-10-06
(DQV) Abbas -  last stand
(DQW) China's problem
(DQX) A nation of debtors
(DQY) Gaming gets serious
(DQZ) Fukuyama on liberal democracy

From October 19th 2006

(DRA) Gay police cause offence
(DRB) Iranian homosexuals can stay
(DRC) World news briefs at 20-10-06
(DRD) Dragged along by Europe
(DRE) If it was about the Jews
(DRF) It could be worse
(DRG) New US space policy
(DRH) We are the watchers
(DRI) Green big-tobacco death alliance
(DRJ) COPD - lung disease
(DRK) Why should GOP lose Congress?
(DRL) World news briefs at 21-10-06
(DRM) Putin - good or bad
(DRN) The wrong kind of alcohol
(DRO) Bush on the loose
(DRP) Sir Richard and the new doctrine
(DRQ) Invisibility cloak
(DRR) If and when
(DRS) Assisted suicide
(DRT) World news briefs at 22-10-06
(DRU) Korea's Dr Strangelove
(DRV) 18m AIDS orphans
(DRW) Invitation to talk business
(DRX) Containing Kim Jong-Il
(DRY) Fragility of life
(DRZ) New Iranian threats

From October 12th 2006

(DOA) African adoptions
(DOB) Globalization hurts the poor
(DOC) Iraqi death toll
(DOD) Moderate Europeans
(DOE) On the River Yalu
(DOF) Science friction
(DOG) Booker prize-winner
(DOH) Walnuts good for the heart
(DOI) New freedoms for UK journalists
(DOJ) World news briefs at 13-10-06
(DOK) Extinction cycles and earth's tilt
(DOL) Cultural war
(DOM) Dot com boom returns
(DON) Give Iran the bomb
(DOO) Judge criticises MI5 testimony
(DOP) Lord of the flies
(DOQ) Middle ground
(DOR) Oldest cuban dies
(DOS) Nobel prize for Orhan
(DOT) Cameron spoof
(DOU) World news briefs at 14-10-06
(DOV) The last mughal
(DOW) For the troops
(DOX) Getting into Darfur
(DOY) Londonistan still with us
(DOZ) Pakistan's russion roulette

From October 14th 2006

(DPA) US insanity
(DPB) We are all doomed
(DPC) Where is Voltaire?
(DPD) Against nature
(DPE) Don't ask - don't tell
(DPF) World news briefs at 15-10-06
(DPG) Iraqi and Afghani executions
(DPH) Breaking up the internet
(DPI) China's organ harvest
(DPJ) End of orientalism
(DPK) Korea and axis of evil
(DPL) Lets hear it for General Dannatt
(DPM) Talking heads
(DPN) Zimbabwe's last stand
(DPO) Top-spin from St Andrews
(DPP) They dare to call it treason
(DPQ) World news briefs at 16-10-06
(DPR) A darker world
(DPS) The autistic brain
(DPT) Microcredit founder wins Nobel Prize
(DPU) Misunderstanding multiculturalism
(DPV) Muslims creating apartheid
(DPW) River people
(DPX) Serbia's tundra is melting
(DPY) Somalia's pirates
(DPZ) Style versus substance
From October 8th 2006

(DMA) World news briefs at 08-10-06
(DMB) Sark fiefdom ends
(DMC) Mystery of old age frailty
(DMD) Motorist thoughts are elsewhere
(DME) It's just me me me
(DMF) Isolation policy
(DMG) Iraq - breaking point
(DMH) Foley follies
(DMI) Destruction of Palestine
(DMJ) Bush's useful idiots
(DMK) Town with no soul
(DML) A glimpse of hell
(DMM) World news briefs at 09-10-06
(DMN) Suspicious death in Russia
(DMO) Do angry men get noticed?
(DMP) French ghettos
(DMQ) LSD for the DTS
(DMR) Pakistan earthquake one year on
(DMS) Pick'n'Mix integration
(DMT) Progress in Afghanistan
(DMU) Case of disappearing terror plots
(DMV) Forgotten crisis
(DMW) Revolt didn't have to fail
(DMX) North Korea's nuke arrives
(DMY) World news briefs at 10-10-06
(DMZ) New Orleans flood - of hookers

From October 10th 2006

(DNA) Was nuke test a dud?
(DNB) Alien abduction
(DNC) Chess City
(DND) Ecological debate
(DNE) Francoism
(DNF) Integration still a good idea
(DNG) New chief at UN
(DNH) No room at the Inn
(DNI) Safe cigarettes
(DNJ) DRNK - now what?
(DNK) World news briefs at 11-10-06
(DNL) Chips with everything
(DNM) European fat men
(DNN) Fighting a mirage
(DNO) Gallic charm
(DNP) In denial
(DNQ) Mental health day
(DNR) Saddam trial
(DNS) Spinning the blues
(DNT) The PR kid
(DNU) Wisel shouts louder
(DNV) Office bugging is legal
(DNW) World news briefs at 12-10-06
(DNX)  Some business news at 12-10-06
(DNY) US population reaches 300 million
(DNZ) A sadly logical event

From October 4th 2006

(DKA) World news briefs at 04-10-06
(DKB) Putin the next Czar
(DKC) Tesco
(DKD) Russia's Monarchist nostalgia
(DKE) The next UN chief?
(DKF) Top 20 polluters gather in Mexico
(DKG) UK Special Branch absorbed
(DKH) Some business news at 04-10-06
(DKI) Treatment for our wounded soldiers
(DKJ) Scientific reasons for having sex
(DKK) Microsoft taking security risks
(DKM) Jailbirds ripe for recruitment
(DKN) Delving deep in Britain's past
(DKO) Cloning without stem cells
(DKP) UK - US real time data sharing
(DKQ) Did Democrats page Mark Foley?
(DKR) Amish shooting revelations
(DKS) Amish
(DKT) World news briefs at 05-10-06
(DKU) Hamas and Fatah
(DKV) Coping with Mr Kim
(DKW) Time to bury Lenin
(DKX) Boris's gaffes
(DKY) Iran's new culture
(DKZ) Black tea

From October  5th 2006

(DLA) Aids - contrasting approaches
(DLB) IRA as good as dead
(DLC) Bribery index
(DLD) World news briefs at 06-10-06
(DLE) Why go nuclear?
(DLF) Turkish pride
(DLG) Changing shape of a family
(DLH) Sheridan and MI5
(DLI) Korean view of NYSE
(DLJ) Polio paranoia in India
(DLK) Gaza remains under siege
(DLM) Civil war simmerings
(DLN) Battle for brainpower
(DLO) Microsoft to cripple pirated Windows
(DLP) Foley - a closeted democrat?
(DLQ) World news briefs at 07-10-06
(DLR) The veil debate
(DLS) Difficult questions follow shooting spree
(DLT) New suicide bombers
(DLU) HPV vaccines for teens
(DLV) Duping Darfur
(DLW) Cambodia's child sex crackdown
(DLX) A marriage made in hell
(DLY) A civilised divorce
(DLZ) Some business news at 07-10-06


From September 29th 2006

(DIA) Electronic book opens new chapter
(DIB) The fight against Malaria
(DIC) Fence mending in Asia
(DID) Saddam's trial - justice?
(DIE) White House diners
(DIF) Jorg Haider - invisible man?
(DIG) EU expansion on hold
(DIH) US snooped on the world's banks
(DII) The 101 on Trans Fats
(DIJ) More on european digital civil rights
(DIK) World news briefs at 30-09-06
(DIL) Some business news at 30-09-06
(DIM) Low-tech anthrax still deadly
(DIN) Engine on a chip drives laptops
(DIO) 100,000 rise in diabetes cases
(DIP) Chinese lasers disable US satellites
(DIQ) Taxman drives builder to bankruptcy
(DIR) Right choice for broadcasters
(DIS) Nuremberg law on trial
(DIT) Another Woodward book hits Bush
(DIU) Next step for ISAF
(DIV) 1918 flu virus secrets revealed
(DIW) Age discrimination law arrives
(DIX) World news briefs at 01-10-06
(DIY) Tower of Babel technology nears
(DIZ) The Green Room

From October 1st 2006

(DJA) Cartoon Row - one year on
(DJB) Russian officers on spying charge
(DJC) Pakistan - conflicting views
(DJD) God - a dad to Jesus was not he?
(DJE) Does Cameron offer an alternative?
(DJF) Blackshirts  - battle of Cable Street
(DJG) Pakistan's pseudo war
(DJH) Global warming and smoking
(DJI) World news briefs at 02-10-06
(DJJ) Why Bush will nuke Iran
(DJK) Crowded jails - violence grows
(DJL) US adopts extradition treaty with UK
(DJM) Sueing over carcinogenic chicken
(DJN) UK's UFO Unit cover up
(DJO) Drama puts Blair in dock
(DJP) Nanotechnology risks unknown
(DJQ) Internet control nears autonomy
(DJR) Excess baggage
(DJS) World news briefs at 03-10-06
(DJT) The hidden war
(DJU) Israel on war alert
(DJV) Socialists grab Austrian victory
(DJW) Facelift for Brazilian slums
(DJX) EU divided over illegal immigrants
(DJY) How long before marriage is illegal?
(DJZ) Bear baiting
From September 24th 2006

(DGA) RAF - utterly useless
(DGB) Sleaze and disunity
(DGC) The march to war
(DGD) Sceptical over Bin Laden death report
(DGE) Uncovering truth about Dr Kelly
(DGF) World news briefs at 25-09-06
(DGG) A coup a riot a UN rant-fest
(DGH) Britons threaten Muslim beheadings
(DGI) Clean, green war machines
(DGJ) Suicide terrorist motivation
(DGK) Russia's War views
(DGL) 3m year old child skeleton found
(DGM) Some very strange UK events
(DGN) Rules according to Putin
(DGO) Viagra and orgasms
(DGP) World's oldest people live in japan
(DGQ) Justice under Brown and Blair
(DGR) The ejection
(DGS) World news briefs at 26-09-06
(DGT) What is Lyme disease?
(DGU) Web politics
(DGV) Blair's powerful party farewell
(DGW) Swiss vote for touigher asylum
(DGX) Musharraf's memoris
(DGY) Flood makes Britain an island
(DGZ) Iraq errors - disasterous

From September 26th 2006

(DHA) Death facing
(DHB) Cherie upstages Brown's big speech
(DHC) The sarin gas attack
(DHD) Some detail of 'That Bill'
(DHE) World news briefs at 27-09-06
(DHF) Some business news at 27-09-06
(DHG) Afghan opium - who benefits?
(DHH) World econony growing - IMF
(DHI) Abidjan waste not toxic - company
(DHJ) War 'on terror' or 'against Islam'?
(DHK) California's RFID privacy law
(DHL) Global warming - journalists challenged
(DHM) Adapt to survive
(DHN) Nutrigenomics - tailor made diets
(DHO) World news briefs at 28-09-06
(DHP) Krajisnik jailed for 27 years
(DHQ) Genocide denial and Dutch elections
(DHR) Bald is King
(DHS) World is warmest for 12000 years
(DHT) Chastity at centre of custody battle
(DHU) Britain must pay traitor Blake
(DHV) Junk row postie loses his round
(DHW) Bush's damning spy report
(DHX) Blair seeks place in history
(DHY) World news briefs at 29-09-06
(DHZ) Lula disappoints poor


From September 19th 2006

(DEA) Islam, Christianity not above criticism
(DEB) Trans-dniestr - lawless region
(DEC) History strikes back at British Empire
(DED) The Golden Chain - Chapter One
(DEE) Asahara
(DEF) Regulating Fatwas
(DEG) World news briefs at 20-09-06
(DEH) Some business news at 20-09-06
(DEI) Christianity v Islam
(DEJ) Dudley's on the case
(DEK) Friendly virii (viruses)
(DEL) Gibraltar
(DEM) Rat
(DEN) Age of the factory ends in old Europe
(DEO) World news briefs at 21-09-06
(DEP) Some business news at 21-09-06
(DEQ) More football corruption alleged
(DER) An end to habeus corpus
(DES) Japan awakes
(DET) Penis transplant is rejected
(DEU) Adult approval for smacking children
(DEV) Phone numbers from the past
(DEW) An end to privacy
(DEX) That Chavez speech
(DEY) World news briefs at 22-09-06
(DEZ) End of the American Dream

From September 22nd 2006

(DFA) Globalisation afresh
(DFB) World of good and evil
(DFC) Is Bin Laden winning?
(DFD) Kidnap in Austria
(DFE) The British Diaspora
(DFF) 911 - financial impact
(DFG) Underpaid soldier scandal
(DFH) EU seeks to 'control' web video media
(DFI) Wireless makes surveillance easy in UK
(DFJ) World news briefs at 23-09-06
(DFK) Elif Shafak - case dismissed
(DFL) Week that shook Royal Family
(DFM) Thaksin watches his outing on TV
(DFN) Pope 'misunderstood' in Islam speech
(DFO) Japanese cars overtaking US
(DFP) Durga's Court
(DFQ) Christians executed by firing squad
(DFR) Average Ivan v Homo Adidas
(DFS) Smoking increases HIV infection
(DFT) Honour killings
(DFU) Unity bank - fraud accusations
(DFV) World news briefs at 24-09-06
(DFW) A new Stockholm Syndrome
(DFX) China fires ICBM
(DFY) Gibraltar concessions
(DFZ) Putin the bully
From September 15th 2006

(DCA) Classical musical lovers high on what?
(DCB) Gibraltar - outpost of the neanderthal
(DCC) Sarin gas attack on  subway
(DCD) Extreme tuberculosis
(DCE) Its all in a name
(DCF) Sarkozy's maverick ways
(DCG) US Road deaths
(DCH) Who killed the British PM?
(DCI) Artic Sea ice is melting at dramatic rate
(DCJ) World news briefs at 16-09-06
(DCK) Has this Pope got balls?
(DCL) Drug could slash diabetes cases
(DCM) Lost in space - junk
(DCN) Russian banker killed
(DCO) The end of Iraq
(DCP) The good nut guide
(DCQ) US outrage as Taliban fighters freed
(DCR) Cyberstorm
(DCS) Indoctrination
(DCT) Abortion rates
(DCU) NATO relief
(DCV) World news briefs at 17-09-06
(DCW) In praise of services
(DCX) Enemy wants to attack - Bush
(DCY) Cameron the Scot
(DCZ) Darfur - diplomatic paralysis

From September 17th 2006

(DDA) Green tea
(DDB) India ends the ban
(DDC) Muslim integration
(DDD) Poetic justice
(DDE) Problem of today's children
(DDF) The silent disability
(DDG) Weight loss and bladder control
(DDH) World news briefs at 18-09-06
(DDI) Winds of change
(DDJ) The end of privacy
(DDK) 8 crucial tips
(DDL) Autism: to be or not to be
(DDM) Britain must regain pride in her identity
(DDN) Dirty bomb fears
(DDO) Bush's grandfather helped Hitler rise
(DDP) Kelly - a political suicide
(DDQ) The Pope is sorry
(DDR) Top soldier quite 'pointless war'
(DDS) Wacky ways to avoid global warming
(DDT) Who killed Pope John Paul?
(DDU) World news briefs at 19-09-06
(DDV) Some business news at 19-09-06
(DDW) Russia rekindles partnership
(DDX) Russia, India explore Myanmar gas
(DDY) The Pope did us a favour
(DDZ) Lord's Prayer - 2006 style

From September 10th 2006

(DAA) CIA agent exposed by mistake
(DAB) 30 years after Mao's death
(DAC) World news briefs at 11-09-06
(DAD) Padded bras for 6 year olds
(DAE) Berlusconi's choice
(DAF) Brown comes out fighting
(DAG) Coca Cola moves on Kabul
(DAH) Five years later
(DAI) Islamophobia and the media
(DAJ) Japanese Jesus Trail
(DAK) World news briefs at 12-09-06
(DAL) Business news at 12-09-06
(DAM) A world without time or number
(DAN) Al Qaeda Simon Says
(DAO) Five years on we still don't know
(DAP) Brazil's tipping point
(DAQ) 1556 the Polish plumber was a Scot
(DAR) Is the Bush doctrine dead?
(DAS) Let them have nukes
(DAT) Danger from Permafrost melting
(DAU) Steve Irwin's dangerous antics
(DAV) Trading the right to pollute
(DAW) Britain abandoned for 100000 years
(DAX) Will the last person in Poland
(DAY) Telepathy
(DAZ) China Big Brother censors all the news


From September 13th 2006

(DBA) World news briefs at 13-09-06
(DBB) Some business news at 13-09-06
(DBC) A Nurse's tale in Libya
(DBD) Blair in Beirut
(DBE) US safety hinges on Iraq - Bush
(DBF) Cameron the LibCon
(DBG) Hamas and Fatah
(DBH) Iran and Iraq
(DBI) Junk culture poisoning our kids
(DBJ) Paying Poles to go home
(DBK) The Abe Enigma
(DBL) World news briefs at 14-09-06
(DBM) Some business news at 14-09-06
(DBN) Brits apply for Irish passports
(DBO) Pope takes on faith and terrorism
(DBP) Mad anti-americans
(DBQ) Literacy standards slump
(DBR) Gitmo denounced by Falconer
(DBS) Lower drink limit for young drivers
(DBT) Diabetes could cripple health budgets
(DBU) Be careful what you wish for
(DBV) If Bin Laden had a blue stained dress
(DBW) World news  briefs at 15-09-06
(DBX) Oil prices to slump - analyst
(DBY) Government spins data sharing
(DBZ) Christ in a pint


From September 6th 2006

(CYA) Cameron forging a special relationship
(CYB) A natural resistance to HIV?
(CYC) No capture for Bin Laden
(CYD) Next phase of Middle East War
(CYE) EU tech-surveillance green paper
(CYF) World news briefs at 07-09-06
(CYG) Some business news at 07-09-06
(CYH) River Vecht a little gem
(CYI) Preview of World War III
(CYJ) Iran's letter to Mrs Merkel
(CYK) NATO's Medusa under construction
(CYL) Libya shouldn't get a cent
(CYM) Gitmo - European ambibivalance
(CYN) Burmese workes in Thailand
(CYO) Mistakes over Schipol fire
(CYP) Resignations - fatal blow for Blair?
(CYQ) Better loved - Queen  or Tony Blair?
(CYR) Sunnis enraged by regions divide
(CYS) New twist in stem cell debate
(CYT) Gerry and the peacemakers
(CYU) World news briefs at 08-09-06
(CYV) Some business news at 08-09-06
(CYW) Fingerprinting school children
(CYX) Karl Rove due an apology
(CYY) Polling cats and dogs for Bush
(CYZ) Iraq takes over military control from US

From September 8th 2006

(CZA) Britain more distrusting of Muslims
(CZB) More power to Europe's people
(CZC) New rules for Gitmo detainees
(CZD) Hezbollah arming Gaza for war
(CZE) Marriage
(CZF) EU - Spain bickering over migration
(CZG) Trial date set for NatWest 3
(CZH) World news briefs at 09-09-06
(CZI) Some business news at 09-09-06
(CZJ) Secret prisons acknowledged
(CZK) Clarke blasts 'stupid Brown'
(CZL) Attitudes to the family
(CZM) Free condoms for 12 year olds
(CZN) Row over radical cleric's arrival
(CZO) The assasin and the lame duck
(CZP) The Bush / Bin Laden buddy movie
(CZQ) New life for child soldiers
(CZR) World news briefs at 10-09-06
(CZS) £85 bn UK government waste
(CZT) ASBO reprieve for noisy cock
(CZU) Brown - fit to lead country?
(CZV) Corruption amongst prison staff
(CZW) Muslims targeted in Indian bombs
(CZX) Highest tides for 20 years
(CZY) Why I remain loyal to Blair - McShane
(CZZ) I'm safe on road - blind driver

From September 1st 2006

(CWA) Home sweet Home birth
(CWB) Iran seek mideast superpower status
(CWC) Iran's nuclear defiance
(CWD) Israel prepares for next war
(CWE) Israel's uneasy relations with UN
(CWF) Mrs T's rottweiler
(CWG) US cigs pack more nicotine
(CWH) Who is really harboring Al Qaeda?
(CWI) More media - less news
(CWJ) Who killed the newspaper?
(CWK) Richer fo Poorer
(CWL) You terrorists - We Virtuous
(CWM) No end of low skilled workforce
(CWN) World news briefs at 02-09-06
(CWO) Some business news at 02-09-06
(CWP) Invading your digital privacy
(CWQ) A great Egyptian is dead
(CWR) Condoms OK says RC Bishop
(CWS) Memories of 9/11
(CWT) Madonna condemned
(CWU) The terrorist next door
(CWV) Missile defence test success
(CWW) World news briefs at 3-09-06
(CWX) Taxing Britain's poor
(CWY) UK position in corruption league
(CWZ) Palestinians fire rockets

From September 3rd 2006

(CXA) Time to act over Iran
(CXB) Blair - imagemakers boo boo
(CXC) Diana inquest - judge recalled
(CXD) Enlightening left-wing ideologues
(CXE) World news briefs at 04-06-09
(CXF) Afghan's opium on a high
(CXG) Iraq's blood bath flows freely
(CXH) Bush stands by Iraq war
(CXI) Remembering the Beslan siege
(CXJ) Live forever - expectations dashed
(CXK) The Nimrod crash implications
(CXL) Sheridan divorce to cost £20,000
(CXM) Treaty of Rome - News in Latin
(CXN) Kerala opens windows to Linux
(CXO) World news briefs at 05-09-06
(CXP) Some busines news at 05-09-06
(CXQ) The Pope on evolution
(CXR) The nation that fell to earth
(CXS) Setting conditions for disaster
(CXT) Just joking
(CXU) India ranks highly with US
(CXV) Deadline? What deadline?
(CXW) Fuelling hatred of British Jews
(CXX) A Kurdish view of Iraq
(CXY) World news brief at 06-09-06
(CXZ) Some business news at 06-09-06

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