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After demise of the Royal Show, RASE falls at first hurdle
When it came to the Royal Festival of The Horse, the Royal Agricultural Society of England proved it could mess up what should have been a safe bet
By Martin King | Notebook | Monday, 12 July 2010 at 7:30 am
Deep rims at dawn: Fight at the Tour de France
Things just got tasty at the Tour where, after our own Mark Cavendish’s second straight stage win yesterday, Spanish rider Carlos Barredo and Portuguese man o’ war, Rui Alberto Costa, swapped sports for a punch-up. Ding ding!
Who cares what it was about because it’s pretty funny, in a juvenile, playground FIIIGHT! kind of way. Anyway, [...]
By Simon Usborne | Notebook | Saturday, 10 July 2010 at 10:51 am
Dropping the drawbridge; state-school intake and academic success at Cambridge
You have to be very careful identifying causality in education. Boris Johnson’s belief that since he learned Latin and turned out alright our children should learn Latin and will, in the end, turn out alright, is one example of an inference too far, for example. Today’s story about how a spate of state school applications [...]
By Jack Riley | Notebook | Friday, 9 July 2010 at 1:53 pm
The real village of Boot
Living two doors away from the notorious taxi rank where Derrick Bird’s shootings first became public, you can understand why I would want to get away from it all. What might surprise you is that my partner and I headed for the village of Boot.
Boot is where Bird ended his shooting spree by taking his [...]
By Alan Cleaver | Arts, Notebook | Friday, 9 July 2010 at 12:05 pm
This week’s top posts
Drum roll please… with celebrities, football and a flying parrot leading the charge. here are our top posts from the last seven days
By Larry Ryan | Notebook | Thursday, 8 July 2010 at 4:15 pm
Health Diary: Mad Dogs and Englishmen
Men lay there motionless, fighting a losing battle to hold in their stomachs, while adamantly refusing to use coconut scented suntan lotion. Women slowly slip into swimsuits, using as much care as a bomb disposal squad, desperate to ensure their towels don’t hit the floor before their tops are securely fastened.
By Chris Geiger | Notebook | Thursday, 8 July 2010 at 3:24 pm
The Synod: Will Rowan Williams have to walk?
As mentioned in Tuesday’s blog, Friday’s General Synod is looking ever more like a watershed for the CofE. With neither progressives nor conservatives willing to back down on the issue of consecrating women bishops, the Church is staring down the barrel of schism and acrimony.
To recap, liberals are determined that this Synod should finally mark [...]
By Tom Mendelsohn | Notebook | Thursday, 8 July 2010 at 1:11 pm
The creator of ‘Final Fantasy’ working on a game called ‘The Last Story’ – whatever next?
When Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of the legendary ‘Final Fantasy’ RPG series and former developer of such classics as ‘Chrono Trigger’ (SNES, 1995) and ‘Bahamut Lagoon’ (SNES, 1996) starts work on an original concept people tend to stand up and take notice, so here’s introducing ‘The Last Story’ for Nintendo’s Wii. With a suggested release date [...]
By Michael Plant | Games, Notebook | Thursday, 8 July 2010 at 10:33 am
Bulletstorm – The spiritual successor to Duke Nukem 3D?
The latest video of ‘Bulletstorm’ – the Cliff Bleszinski (‘Unreal Tournament’, ‘Gears of War’) produced first-person shooter – looks like it’s shaping up nicely and might well be the title that Duke Nukem fans have been waiting for following the non-event that was notorious vapourware ‘Duke Nukem Forever’. Appearing to be as much an exercise [...]
By Michael Plant | Games, Notebook | Wednesday, 7 July 2010 at 1:35 pm
Parrot in the park: AR Drone helicopter flight test
Ever since it debuted at this year’s CES technology fair, the Parrot AR Drone has been featuring on the wish lists of geeks everywhere keen to get their hands on a model. Controlled by iPhone or iPod Touch, it’s a four-blade helicopter with two cameras to help navigation (and spying) and for use in the [...]
By Jack Riley | Notebook | Wednesday, 7 July 2010 at 11:10 am
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