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• A young girl wanders through the history of Sarajevo

  By Russell Pollard on January 23, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  June 28 1914, a young girl wanders lonely, amongst the throngs of people out on the street of Sarajevo cheering the arrival of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Princess Sophie.  Her earlier wish for independence turned into anxiety and… Read More ›

• One-Liner Week 23rd January 2011

  By Russell Pollard on January 23, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Andy Coulson, David Cameron’s Communications Director resigns due to the continued publicity surrounding the phone hacking story, and the News of the World. This has the making of becoming very “toxic” and time will tell how widespread, and high-up the… Read More ›

• UKUncut: Is the “black economy” worse than tax avoidance?

  By Russell Pollard on January 18, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  The UKUncut initiative continued with its protests again last Saturday (15th January 2011) with a sit down demonstration outside Vodafone on Oxford Street. This was followed by gatherings outside of British Home Stores, Boots and Top Shop. The numbers that… Read More ›

• One-Liner Week 16th January 2011

  By Russell Pollard on January 16, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Brisbane, Australia’s third largest city braces itself for significant flooding. Edward Woollard, 18, student who infamously through a fire extinguisher from the top of Millbank Tower on the day of the student protests gets jailed for 2 years 8 months…. Read More ›

• Girls, Geeks, and Grand Prix

  By Russell Pollard on January 16, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  My annual pilgrimage to the Autosport Exhibition at the NEC in Birmingham is an ever changing event and is a source of great fascination. Many years ago I would have gone as a great fanatic of grand prix racing and… Read More ›

• Student Tuition Fees Protest: Before the Violence.

  By Russell Pollard on January 13, 2011 • ( 2 )

  

  Much has been written about the violence at Millbank Tower, in Parliament Square, the vandalism of government and public property, the dropping of the fire extinguisher, the destruction of a “fake” police van, the kettling, the thugs, youths, anarchists, the… Read More ›

• Climate change brainwashing of young people

  By Russell Pollard on January 10, 2011 • ( 2 )

  The Observer on 9th Jan 2011 published an interesting article called “No Country for Young people” where they interviewed a number of people about their views on the world today including economic prospects, personal and global outlook.  One person, who… Read More ›

• One-Liner Week 9th January 2011

  By Russell Pollard on January 9, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Hungary picks up the reigns of the EU presidency for the next 6 months, which should be interesting, as they seem to be sliding back into their old communist ways…including the freedom of the press. Top British actor, Pete Postlewaithe… Read More ›

• Global Warming – cold comfort for trapped trawlers in Sea of Okhotsk

  By Russell Pollard on January 9, 2011 • ( 0 )

  The Sea of Okhotsk is one of the shining lights for the proponents of global warming as being very sensitive to the effects of climate change, and consequently has been studied vigorously by many academics. Mitoyo Itoh of the Institute of… Read More ›

• US Govt demand details from Wikileaks’ Twitter account

  By Russell Pollard on January 8, 2011 • ( 0 )

  It has just become evident that the US Govt has issued a subpoena to Twitter to provide details going back to November 2009  of access, location, IP addresses and tweets on Julian Assange, Bradley Manning and the Icelandic MP, Birgitta Jonsdottir…. Read More ›