Why preserve a life with no meaning?

I haven’t been able to talk or write about the so-called “right to die” since my wife of more than 30 years died six years ago. For several years Linda had been complaining about severe pain in her right side. Investigations had led nowhere. She was sent for a routine ultrasound and I can still see the look on the doctor’s face and hear the sound of hospital panic. This time there was no missing the huge soft-tissue sarcoma that had strangled a kidney and attached itself to her aorta.

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It’s not Facebook that’s doing down our young

If polo is the most expensive sport in which to participate, then archbishop-baiting must be the cheapest. You don’t even need your own archbishop, but can share one with millions of others. No saddle is required, only a pen. The man in the biretta simply has to offer an opinion on some matter of contemporary fashion, and we can all pile in. Cheap, but fun.

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A blind eye has been turned to cheating in universities

During a working lifetime in higher education I have witnessed what I hoped never to see: the gradual and deliberate dumbing down of academic standards in the pursuit of targets and rankings. What is more, this has taken place with the enthusiastic complicity of senior managers: often, indeed, at their behest. Degrees have been awarded to the undeserving, and a blind eye has been turned to rampant cheating

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Jessica Simpson Indian Giver Controversy News: Jessica Simpson: Indian Giver Remark Sparks Controversy

Jessica Simpson Indian giver | Jessica Simpson Indian giver controversy | Indian giver origin | Idian giver | Indian giver meaning | Jessica Simpson weight loss | Pop star Jessica Simpson may have put her foot in her mouth when she talked about her recent break-up with Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo. Simpson gave Romo a boat for his birthday earlier this year

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Grief will never deflect us from our duty

In my office is a piece of Helmand marble with an inscription from Gulab Mangal, the provincial governor, that expresses his heartfelt appreciation for the sacrifices of the British forces over the period I was in command. It is a reminder that our campaign in Afghanistan is not simply a fight against the Taleban. It is about supporting good Afghans to govern their own country so that we no longer have to fear a threat that emanates from it.

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China’s future will be hobbled by old age

Beware what you wish for. Birth control was one of the resounding policy successes of the last quarter of the last century. In the early 1970s, women worldwide were bearing an average of 4.3 children; populations in some of the poorest countries were doubling at breakneck speed and demographers were predicting that the world would contain 16 billion or more people before the demographic express hit the buffers of famine and war.

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Mandelson for next Labour leader: why not?

Who will be Labour’s next leader? The opinion polls are putting intense pressure on the Labour Party and on Gordon Brown. The latest opinion poll gives the Conservatives 41 per cent, Labour 27 and the Liberal Democrats 18. That would produce a landslide victory for the Tories. Other recent polls have been even worse for Labour, as was the Norwich North by-election.

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Survival of the fittest – ideas, that is

Following the eclipse of Miss World as a major media event, the tendency to judge figures aspiring to global prominence on how well they fill swimwear has diminished. But not disappeared altogether. Last summer both David Cameron and Barack Obama were appraised by judicious critics on their beachwear choices. And in previous years the seaside ensembles of figures from Vladimir Putin (aggressively bare-breasted) to Silvio Berlusconi (similarly naked above the waist but with a penchant for piratical bandanas) have also excited attention. Although in Silvio’s case we probably now enjoy just a little too much detail about what he likes to keep covered and uncovered.

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Don’t book a ticket to Dignitas just yet

I’ll say one thing for the euthanasia lobby: they are masters of media manipulation. Somehow they managed to persuade the press and broadcasters that the law lords had demanded that parliament reverse its opposition to the legalisation of so-called “assisted suicide”. This collective misinterpretation of last Thursday’s judgment on the case of Debbie Purdy, a multiple sclerosis sufferer and campaigner for such a change in the law, must in part have derived from the sight of Purdy and her lawyers happily toasting the outcome with champagne.

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Think tank: the empire has a lesson on beating the Taliban

The foreign and defence secretaries should take a lesson from history. If they looked into our imperial past they would discover that the first phase of Operation Panther’s Claw was declared complete around the anniversary of the battle of Maiwand — a comprehensive defeat for a British brigade just east of the Helmand river in 1880

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.black canvas; across the universe – full video download

The file was too big for YouTube, so I have a lovely megaupload link for you all: www.megaupload.com This is for the WinchestersRock Challenge One! The challenge was to create a tribute to a movie or show, so I chose Across the Universe . I’ve never vidded it before, but I love it to death; it’s so artistically filmed which made it even more fun to vid! I’ve been done with this for about a week, but I’ve had such trouble uploading it! It took a few days and Vegas gave me major rendering …

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