Furl http://www.furl.net/ http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.furl.net/member/johnbakeronline.rss Furl archive. Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:58:52 GMT http://www.furl.net/item/14689761/forward http://www.furl.net/item/14689761 yeah but no but Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:34:23 GMT General 3 http://www.furl.net/item/12535090/forward http://www.furl.net/item/12535090 "He shrieked that he didn't care about lives, told me to call in the Army and 'machine-gun' the prisoners Tue, 17 Oct 2006 07:49:15 GMT Politics David Blunkett told the prison service to call in the Army and "machine-gun" inmates during the 2002 Lincoln Prison riots, 3 http://www.furl.net/item/12441357/forward http://www.furl.net/item/12441357 It is totally inappropriate to slam women when other ways of dealing with them help avoid their re-offending Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:51:23 GMT Politics The Government should close women's prisons down, forthwith. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/12397323/forward http://www.furl.net/item/12397323 The Indian writer Kiran Desai last night became the youngest woman ever to take the £50,000 Man Booker Prize, proving victorious in the prestigious award for which her mother, Anita, has previously been shortlisted three times without success. Wed, 11 Oct 2006 08:01:43 GMT Literature "It is a magnificent novel of humane breadth and wisdom, comic tenderness and powerful political acuteness. " 3 http://www.furl.net/item/12266477/forward http://www.furl.net/item/12266477 Scansion though? All too much fuss You wait two hours for an iambus Five arrive at once. Discuss. Thu, 05 Oct 2006 08:40:42 GMT Writing While there is rising enthusiasm for poetry among young people, the subject matter of the 15 winners of the contest, aged from 12 to 17, shows a firm grip on the more disturbing threats in modern life. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/12081521/forward http://www.furl.net/item/12081521 A production of a Mozart opera in which the severed head of the Muslim prophet Mohamed is shown on stage was dropped by one of Berlin's main opera houses yesterday. Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:17:57 GMT Music In the opera house's production of the Mozart work that was first shown in 1871, the Cretan king, Idomeneo, holds up the severed heads of Poseidon, Jesus, Buddah and Mohamed. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/12059214/forward http://www.furl.net/item/12059214 Late last year the pupils of a rural Afghan girls school made a horrying discovery. The Taliban had hidden a landmine under a bag in their classroom. Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:45:45 GMT Politics Another Taliban "night letter" left at a nearby school warned: "Respected Afghans: Leave the culture and traditions of the Christians and Jews. Do not send your girls to school." 3 http://www.furl.net/item/12038117/forward http://www.furl.net/item/12038117 They are dying for a policy that increases the risk of terror attacks in the West. Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:57:28 GMT Politics Iraq has deteriorated since Saddam Hussein was in power. Believe it or not, there is more human rights abuse. Arbitrary detention and torture of detainees in Iraqi prisons is widespread. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/11813804/forward http://www.furl.net/item/11813804 Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:51:07 GMT Literature Ballard's work slots somewhere between Joseph Conrad and William Burroughs. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/11784022/forward http://www.furl.net/item/11784022 About 1,000 Lebanese, mainly civilians, died in the fighting, while 161 Israelis, mainly soldiers, were killed. Thu, 14 Sep 2006 09:09:52 GMT Politics An earlier Amnesty report accused Israel of committing war crimes by deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure in Lebanon. 3