Archive for September, 2006
30 years after Mao
September 9th, 2006 by Roger Darlington
Huge picture of Mao Zedongat the entrance to the Forbidden City Today marks the 30th anniversary of he death of the Chinese leader Mao Zedong. I have seen his embalmed body in Tiananmen Square during one of my two visits to China and I have read the highly critical biography by Jung Chang. Mao’s place […]
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A quiz in 4 parts (1)
September 9th, 2006 by Roger Darlington
The following short quiz consists of 4 questions and will tell you whether you are qualified to be a professional. The questions are not that difficult. But click for the answer until you have answered the question! 1. How do you put a giraffe into a refrigerator?
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A quiz in 4 parts (2)
September 9th, 2006 by Roger Darlington
2. How do you put an elephant into a refrigerator?
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A quiz in 4 parts (3)
September 9th, 2006 by Roger Darlington
3. The Lion King is hosting an animal conference. All the animals attend… except one Which animal does not attend?
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A quiz in 4 parts (4)
September 9th, 2006 by Roger Darlington
4. There is a river you must cross but it is used by crocodiles, and you do not have a boat. How do you manage it?
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Roger in trouble (2)
September 8th, 2006 by Roger Darlington
Last time, it was South Wales postman Roger Annies who was suspended by Royal Mail for advising customers on his round how to stop receiving what RM calls door-to-door, that is unaddressed and unsolicited mail. I blogged about this here when I explained that, on behalf of the consumer watchdog Postwatch, I did seven interviews […]
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Why Watson went
September 7th, 2006 by Roger Darlington
Tom Watson was the most senior of the eight people whose resignations this week forced Tony Blair to be clearer about when he would step down as Prime Minister. Watson has previously been best known as the first MP to have a weblog and through this blog we have his explanation of why he acted […]
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The new face of British trade unionism
September 6th, 2006 by Roger Darlington
For the third consecutive year, I’m helping my friend Eric Lee, the founder of LabourStart, with the online course he runs for Indiana University in the United States looking at comparative labour movements. The course examines trade unionism in a vareity of very different countries and this week I am the guest tutor for the […]
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Who brought down the Twin Towers? (2)
September 5th, 2006 by Roger Darlington
When I blogged about this a couple of days ago, I knew that many Americans believed – notwithstanding all the evidence – that their own government was responsible for deliberately bringing down the Twin Towers and World Trade Center 7. What I didn’t full appreciate is that at least 75 American professors supprt this bizarre […]
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Murder in Amman
September 4th, 2006 by Roger Darlington
The BBC’s web site carries the news that a gunman has opened fire on a group of foreign tourists in the Jordanian capital Amman, killing one Briton. Five other tourists, from New Zealand, the Netherlands and two Britons, were wounded before the gunman was arrested. The shooting happened at the Roman amphitheatre in central Amman, […]
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