Your guide for choosing gifts
February 3, 2010
This year I will (finally) launch Gift Gush, the curated marketplace that connects independent designers and artisans with people who are looking for unique gifts for babies and kids . Last year I made a lot of progress and the first …
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February 3, 2010
There are times when human rights become human wrongs. This happens when rights become more than a defence of human dignity, which is their proper sphere, and become instead a political ideology, relentlessly trampling down everything in their path. This is happening increasingly in Britain, and it is why the Pope’s protest against the Equality Bill, whether we agree with it or not, should be taken seriously
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The Pope is right about the threat to freedom
February 3, 2010
An unsuccessful hedge fund chum phones to propose a career change. As a daring international jewel thief, he explains, he would be among the very few foreigners to make any decent money in Tokyo.
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Cunning plan to become stinking rich
February 3, 2010
It started with a bruise the size of a shrivelled raisin that slowly grew into a magenta plum. It was Sunday evening, our baby was sleepy as we lifted him out of the bath and I noticed the mark under his tummy button. But he’d been running round London Zoo with his brothers and sister and I thought he must have knocked himself as he raced from the gorillas to the flamingos.
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Failing out-of-hours care almost killed my baby
February 3, 2010
On May 13, 1940, shortly after lunch, Neville Chamberlain entered the House of Commons to be greeted by a massive ovation. Order papers were waved, MPs shouted, MPs cheered. And shortly afterwards the Prime Minister followed him.
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Remember Churchill when you think of Iraq
February 2, 2010
When searching for that special, unique, memorable Valentine’s Day gift I suggest you consider picture frames. They capture the moment by being able to lock it in time through a photo, then they provide memories for many years down the line.
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Picture Frames – An Excellent Present For Valentine’s Day
February 2, 2010
I’ve tried the Divine Dark Chocolate Mini eggs and the Divine 70% Dark Chocolate Hearts in the past and absolutely loved the both. So it was no surprise that I thought this 70% Dark Chocolate Easter Egg was going similarly fantastic. The nice people at Divine Chocolate sent me this one before they’re available in the shops so I don’t know much about the pricing yet.
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Divine 70% Dark Chocolate Easter Egg 55g
February 2, 2010
Dear Abby: Shortly before my wedding, I decided to have my teeth fixed. The dentist quoted me a price of $4,000, which my husband and I could not afford since we were paying for our entire wedding. My parents agreed to pay the dental bill as soon as it arrived
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Dear Abby: Parents try to extort detailed accounting of wedding gifts
February 2, 2010
Associated Press There is a growing movement to change alimony laws in divorce. As we recently wrote, women now make up almost half of the American work force and a growing number of women are becoming their families’ primary breadwinners . But while the economics of marriage have undergone major transformations, the economics of divorce haven’t kept up
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As Women Earn More, Alimony Laws Lag Behind
February 2, 2010
Here it is… exactly what you have been searching for……the answer to all your questions about what to buy your sweetheart this Valentine’s day! With an extensive selection of beautiful Valentine’s Day ideas to suit everyone and every budget, Everything But Flowers has answered all your wishes in giving her the gift that will express just how special you truly think she is. And to make your search for the perfect gift even easier, we have collated our top 10 best Valentine’s Day gifts for her ideas guaranteed to get you some loving this romantic season! Chandon With Love Crabtree & Evelyn Rosewater Silk Road Box Set Bubbles and Bear Gift A Bucket of Love Endota Treat Gift Voucher Sweet Tooth Gift Hamper Mixed Fruit Gift Box & Bubbly Universal VISA Gift Cards – Romance Sparkling Wine with Red Merino Blanket Sweet Sensations Gift Hamper But just because we couldn’t stop at 10 with all the fabulous Valentines Day gifts we have on offer, here is a couple more to tantalise her this Valentine’s Day! Chocoholic Gift Hamper Moet & Style Gift These any many more wonderful Valentine’s Day Gifts for her as well as Valentine’s Day gifts for him to show any special person in your life how you feel, are all available online at Everything But Flowers and come beautifully presented in our signature gift wrapping and toped with a luscious white satin ribbon
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Top 10 Valentine’s Day Gifts For Her
February 2, 2010
There are many ways you can find yourself slipping the moorings of cultural comprehension as you burrow deeper into middle age. Technology is the obvious one. Twitter: how does it work
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The stars of the future – we name names
February 2, 2010
Footballers are not entirely like the rest of us. Yesterday, in a Sky interview, the former England forward, Steve Bull, was talking about the former England goalkeeper, Bert Williams, who celebrated his 90th birthday on Sunday. “If I get to half that age,” said Bull, “I’ll be happy.” It turns out that Bull will be 45 on March 28.
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The peculiar urge to sack the England captain
February 2, 2010
‘I feel as if I’m carrying a Ming vase across a very slippery floor,” a Shadow Cabinet minister told me recently. “I’m terrified I’m the one who’s going to drop it.” It was a metaphor first used by Roy Jenkins to describe Tony Blair in the run-up to the 1997 election but it now applies to David Cameron as well, as the country prepares to go to the polls again.
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Tories should be most afraid of their own fear
February 1, 2010
iStockphoto This weekend, each of the two times I sat down at my laptop to write this Juggle post, I had the best of intentions to bang it out in a few short minutes and move on to some other productive pursuit. Instead, each time I whiled away an embarrassingly long time playing word games on Facebook .
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Ways to Stop Wasting Time Online
February 1, 2010
Most men and women agree that opportunities to get hired at the junior level are the same regardless of gender for equally qualified candidates, a new survey shows. But when it comes to attaining senior leadership positions, men have a much rosier view than women that hiring is indeed gender neutral
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Is Workplace Advancement Gender Neutral? Men and Women Disagree
February 1, 2010
We have been told by Sir John Chilcot himself that the Chilcot inquiry is not a trial, and that nobody will be either acquitted or found guilty; we all know that is not true. A public judgment is being made as each section of evidence is given. In particular a quiet judgment has been made of Tony Blair’s conduct.
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Blair the dictator bulldozed us into war
February 1, 2010
In a miracle of brains over brawn, Kathryn Bigelow has just become the first woman to win best director for her film The Hurt Locker, beating her ex-husband’s behemoth, Avatar. Bigelow’s unprecedented success at the Directors’ Guild of America Awards, which often predict the Oscar results, is a sign that cinema is in a thrilling state of flux.
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After Avatar, movies will never be the same again
February 1, 2010
I have suffered my first fit of consumer rage at being asked to pay 5p for a carrier bag. It happened while I was buying fairy figurines in the syrupy Hades that is The Disney Store. The assistant, in a pious, sing-songy “we’re all just trying to help the environment here” voice, announced that there was now a 5p charge for bags then suggested I upgrade by spending £1.50 on a “re-usable” carrier
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Saving the planet or just toying with us?
February 1, 2010
Up and about, are you? Off to work? Congratulations! Tens of thousands are not, according to a sorrowful report from the employment law consultant Peter Mooney.
January 31, 2010
It is strange to think of something slimy, snake-like and nocturnal as reassuring, but it seems as if we are beginning at last to value the extraordinary eel just as it may be about to disappear. Over the past three decades the many unsolved mysteries about the eel’s unique life-cycle have been joined by one more: why has it declined to the extent that it is now classed globally as a critically endangered fish
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The tormented eel is slithering out of existence