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For your ease and convenience: car tax
Read more: For your ease and convenience: car taxApparently, the ease and convenience of the online car tax system means that DVLA in 2007 took 25% more online every day than that retail leviathan, Tesco. Apparently: In July 2007, our Electronic Vehicle Licensing (EVL) service was…
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Wee Planets: Vieille église de Mérignac
Read more: Wee Planets: Vieille église de MérignacThanks to The Telegraph, I just discovered Wee Planets by Alexandre Duret-Lutz. They are remarkable. From his Flickr photostream: Vieille église de Mérignac, originally uploaded by gadl.
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Wildlife thrives at Chernobyl – Telegraph
Read more: Wildlife thrives at Chernobyl – TelegraphThe Telegraph gives an account of flourishing wildlife in the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
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Business trip to New York
Read more: Business trip to New YorkManhattan, originally uploaded by stevenjbaker. Flew there Sunday, trained a team of financial professionals Monday, training and consulting Tuesday and flew home overnight. I thoroughly recommend Smith and Wollensky for steak, but go hungry! A great pleasure to…
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Never too old to live
Read more: Never too old to liveMark and Grace, originally uploaded by Lowerlighter. “Grace celebrating her 91st birthday with Mark Gazley at Skydive Goolwa.”
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Finishing “Human Action, A treatise on economics”, Volume 1
Read more: Finishing “Human Action, A treatise on economics”, Volume 1It seems sometimes that there is little truly new thinking to be done, merely the attempt to catch up with previous dismissals of foolish and destructive ideas: Of course, there will always be individuals and groups of individuals…
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Britain condoned torture, UN finds
Read more: Britain condoned torture, UN findsBritain has been condemned in a highly critical United Nations report for breaching basic human rights and “trying to conceal illegal acts” in the fight against terrorism. The report is sharply critical of British co-operation in the transfer…
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Government abandons data-sharing scheme – Telegraph
Read more: Government abandons data-sharing scheme – TelegraphThe Government has been forced into an embarrassing U-turn over plans to share vast amounts of private data about individuals. Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, is to shelve proposals which critics said would have led to patients’ confidential…