The shortlist for the Man Booker Prize 2006 was announced Thursday afternoon (pasted from the site ): Desai, Kiran The Inheritance of Loss (Hamish Hamilton)Grenville, Kate The Secret River (Canongate)Hyland, M.J. Carry Me Down (Canongate)Matar, Hisham In the Country of Men (Viking)St Aubyn, Edward Mother�s Milk (Picador)Waters, Sarah The Night Watch (Virago) When the longlist […]
Or “please make sure we have remembered to close the doors”. The Economist on the truth behind airlines’ safety announcements.
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The site Limerick Blogger (http://thelimerick.blogspot.com) has being doing a sterling job of collating information about the violence that has been unfolding in that city’s Moyross suburb. The apparently humdrum routine of petrol bombing your neighbour’s gaff segued into something far darker with the horrific arson attack on a car with two children inside. The children, […]
Mary’s gone, Tony’s leaving (eventually), and now G�ran might have to sling his hook. G�ran Persson, prime minister of Sweden for the past decade, is facing the possibility of being forced out of office if he loses next Sunday’s closely contested election. Persson is also leader of the Social Democratic party, which has, the Economist […]
In yesterday’s Sunday Business Post, Vincent Browne claimed that a sense of “menace” was a necessary quality for the leader of which Irish political party? A) Sinn F�in B) The Progressive Democrats Given that it’s the death-bed amanuensis of Charles J. Haughey writing, you won’t be surprised to learn that the correct answer is option […]
Almost five years on, and we still cannot not turn away. Trawling across the wasteland of digital TV, we still have to pause and allow that second plane–filmed from so many angles because its predecessor had done its job of alerting the world–make its inconceivable rendezvous with the South Tower. It doesn’t matter that the […]
The word
This blog didn’t make me laugh, but it did make me smile once or twice. Wryly.