December 2009
100 posts
Removal of Saddam Hussein 'right', says Tony Blair... →
It would have been right to remove Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein even without evidence that he had weapons of mass destruction, Tony Blair has said.
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He said: “I would still have thought it right to remove him. I mean obviously you would have had to use and deploy different arguments, about the nature of the threat.”
But it was and still would have been illegal. And he did...
Gay British soldier talks about coming out to his... →
Ben Rakestrow, who is serving in Afghanistan, says he has had nothing but harmless banter since revealing his sexuality.
A good news story on this topic is a good news story indeed.
You're all wrong. Batman Begins.
jhnbrssndn:
Where the title of every track sounds like a nasty disease.
NB: the best Batman soundtrack isn’t a soundtrack at all. It’s a score. I refer, of course, to Danny Elfman’s majestic work on the 1989 Tim Burton epic.
I was quite partial to the Returns score as well. I had it on cassette tape. It had Siouxsie and the Banshees’ Face to Face as a bonus track. It’s still...
45-minute WMD claim 'came from an Iraqi taxi... →
This is ridiculous. In The Loop touched on the dodgy dossier, but they only scraped the surface of the absurdity.
Of course, it’s not the intelligence or its source that should be grabbing headlines. It’s Blair and those who did his bidding by fabricating and distorting intelligence to fit a decision already made. Once Chilcot has formally established this, we Brits have a...
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The Oxford Guide to English Usage, Appendix I, p....
2. The closing quotation mark should come before all punctuation marks unless these form part of the quotation itself, e.g. Did Nelson really say ‘Kiss me, Hardy’? but Then she asked, ‘What is your name?’
The comma at the end of a quotation, when words such as he said follow, is regarded as equivalent to the final full stop of the speaker’s utterance, and is kept...
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PUT THE COMMA INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARK.
minou:
lenorebeadsman:
faithandbegorrah:
THE PERIOD TOO. PUT IT IN. PUT IT IN RIGHT NOW.
And after the closing parenthesis (131-133).
I almost just stood up and screamed this at my class. I wanted to before I saw this post, but now I am really tempted.
Unless you’re British, in which case logic applies in the same way it does with question/exclamation marks. Though with all the...
haguenite:
cijimcb:
i find it amusing when people say they saw Jesus’ face in something, because Jesus didn’t look like what people think he looked like.
You mean he wasn’t a blonde white guy who walked around with his arms spread in a welcoming fashion while wearing a pristinely white tunic?
Same goes for Michael Jackson.
