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Author Archives: Charles Lambert
PC vs RC
It’s extraordinary the way the people who complain about political correctness (without which it would still be perfectly acceptable to call a person with Down’s syndrome a Mongol) are the first to get their holy knickers in a twist when … Continue reading
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Good riddance to…
…Bernard Manning, admirer, among other things, of Mother Teresa. And before you get sentimental and talk about his perfect comic timing, read this, taken from a Guardian blog posting by Strunt: A charity dinner was held in 1995 near Manchester … Continue reading
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Blood and sperm
An exhibition in the once-red city of Bologna has been closed after complaints of abominable blasphemy from the catholic church. The offending collective was named La Madonna Piange Sperma (The Madonna Weeps Sperm). This would be unremarkable if the reference … Continue reading
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Endangered species and how we can help
Tofa is a language spoken by nomads in the Eastern Sayan mountains of southern Siberia. To be precise, it’s spoken by exactly 25 nomads, all of them old and unlikely to live much longer. When they die, Tofa dies with … Continue reading
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Gay Pride 2007: The interview (part two – the proof)
I’m ten lines down in the last column. You can just about see my name (and age).
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Gay Pride 2007: Reasoned response from the right
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Gay Pride 2007: The interview (part two)
More from the Rome pages of Il Messaggero: «Io sono etero, single, con un figlio – spiega Michaela Parris-Lord, 55 anni, ex assistente di volo – sono qui per protestare contro il Family day, perché l’Italia è ancora arretrata rispetto … Continue reading
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Gay Pride 2007: Information?
What’s most interesting today, after yesterday’s euphoria, is the silence of the midday television news programmes (TG1 and TG2). Family Day triggered days of attacks and counter-attacks, as does almost every political event in Italy, however trivial. But today? Not … Continue reading
Posted in gay pride, information, politics, rome
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Gay Pride 2007: The interview (part one)
This comes from Il Messaggero, the Rome-based national daily. I was interviewed at the beginning of the march yesterday and said an awful lot, as you can imagine. (If you can’t, just click on the label homophobia.) The comment quoted, … Continue reading
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