Linkage

– The list of 10 Mistakes Writers don’t see is very good. I’m probably guilty of most of these on this blog at the very least. – I won’t be publishing my pitifully low score on this quiz, but it’s worth doing anyway. – Finally, the design/content mixer is very good. Except I tried to mix www.pastemagazine.org/rob.php with www.pastemagazine.org/matt.php and it made my head explode.

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It’s not what you say… This article in today’s Independent made me smile. According to (Tory chairman) Liam “Dr” Fox–presumably having a break from judging Pop Idol (I know)–the Conservatives won’t be bothering with any of that liberal positive discrimination nonsense: “[he insisted] his party would select candidates on merit alone and not because of their colour or sex.” Dr Fox said: “For a meritocratic party to be effective it must be minority-blind. For us…

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Hounslow Plane crash? I’m intrigued by a sudden spike in traffic to the site from people Google-ing for hounslow plane crash, and air crash hounslow. Has somebody dropped a 747 onto the Treaty centre since I’ve been away, because I’m sure I would have heard about that, or is it just because the BBC recently repeated their shabby disaster documentary The Day Britain Stopped? (something I wrote about here)

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