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Tax fat cats
Published: 22nd Feb 2013
AT MIDDAY dozens of protesters who’d been waiting quietly inside the store stood up, unfurled their banners and leaflets and began chanting “Starbucks – pay your taxes! Starbucks sucks money from the UK! Boycott Starbucks – tell your friends!”
This demonstration was just one recent example of anger being expressed against greedy companies...
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Royal baby buzz
Published: 12th Feb 2013
BY NOW surely no one on earth doesn't know that William and Kate, the Royal couple, are expecting their first child.
Or is it twins? And will it be a boy or a girl? Everybody is guessing! Those who don’t like all the baby talk in the news are in for a rough nine months – and beyond.
As with William and Kate’s wedding, this...
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Asexuality: a fourth orientation
Published: 10th Dec 2012
“I GREW up in the 60s and 70s. It was ‘sex all around’ and not easy. I wanted to be part of the scene, but didn’t know why I wasn’t.”
Colin Nelson, 55, is a celibate and an asexual. A recent article in the Daily Mail bore the headline: ‘The fourth sexual orientation: one per cent of the population now considers themselves asexual....
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Off the bottle
Published: 27th Oct 2012
“I THINK Britain has a huge drink problem,” Alastair Campbell, former Director of Communications and Strategy for Tony Blair, recently told Jesus Life. “I think there’s a real danger that all the focus is on binge drinking and people causing trouble in city centres. I’m not saying that isn’t a problem, but I think the bigger problem is the middle class...
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Life on the streets
Published: 19th May 2012
"WE'RE all in the gutter," quotes Bertie in a sweeping theatrical manner, "but some of us are looking to the stars. That's Oscar Wilde that is," he tells us while he strums his battered guitar and sings a little ditty to the passers-by.
Bertie was one of a crowd of people that Mary Golding and Lisbeth Johnson bumped into when they decided to base their cell...
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