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Stephen's Sporting Almanac: Olympians we have lost 2014: Part 1 Jan - Mar
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The sporting musings, writings and analysis of Stephen Glenn. Content © Stephen Glenn 2005-2016. Why a separate sport blog? The Olympics an anthology. Tour de France 2013 - The Teams. Olympians we have lost 2014: Part 1 Jan - Mar. 27 August 1916 - 12 January 2014 Fencing. Women's foil individual, first Muslim women to compete at the Games. 24 February 1925 - 8 January 2014 Swimming. Women's 4x100m freestyle relay ,. 6th women's 100m freestyle. 1922 - 13 January 2014 Biathlon. Took part in men's shot putt.
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Living on words alone: June 2015
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Living on words alone. Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them." Adlai Stevenson. A Farron victory is necessary, but it's not sufficient. I've voted for Tim Farron. It was a pretty easy choice - Tim clearly understands a different direction is required. One that builds from the grassroots up. In contrast Lamb is campaigning as if we narrowly lost out in the election and with a bit of refining our messages, government is again around the corner. The party needs...
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Living on words alone: Norman Lamb's Greville Janner problem
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Living on words alone. Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them." Adlai Stevenson. Norman Lamb's Greville Janner problem. Simon Danczuk - Labour MP for Rochdale - is a typical northern Labour tribalist who can see no good in his political opponents. However he has worked tirelessly to uncover allegations of child sexual abuse in high places - even though the alleged perpetrators are dead in the case of Cyril Smith or demented in the case of Greville Janner.
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BBC Sports Personality of the Year | PinkStinks: the campaign for real role models
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PinkStinks: the campaign for real role models. Challenging the culture of pink and giving girls inspiration to achieve great things. Archive of older posts. Early Learning Emergency – revisited – one year on. A small word about the offside rule →. BBC Sports Personality of the Year. Letter sent to the BBC today. I would like to make a few points about last night’s Sports. On women’s sport? Out of a two hour long programme? Just to top things off, the section at the end which so poignantly. In the US wome...
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Living on words alone: February 2015
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Living on words alone. Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them." Adlai Stevenson. So farewell George Mackie. Although coming somewhat late to the tributes to George Mackie who died aged 95 earlier this week I thought I should put on record my one anecdote about him. It comes from the 1980s when Mackie was the Liberal candidate for NE Scotland for the European Parliament (I was a student in Aberdeen at the time). Your brother owns the dairy? Links to this post.
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Ed Simpson: May 2012
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Tuesday, 8 May 2012. We need to turn the focus onto Housing. What was evidently clear from the presentation was that everyone over the age of 10 should have seen this collapse coming. There's no point going into the whole hindsight debate now, but what we should be doing - and it's my belief that we're not - is making sure we don't play the game the same way again. Human Rights issues discussed with Chinese official? Before, during and after the recent visit to Northern Ireland by Madame Liu Yandong of t...
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Ed Simpson: Banter? No. Just plain old misogyny & sexism.
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Tuesday, 9 October 2012. No Just plain old misogyny and sexism. So, as I go about life, generally happy with my lot and pleased to be born and living where I am, I often allow myself to be unjustly pleased with how socially developed and progressive we are compared to other parts of the world - I mean, at least women can drive here, right? But then I find out about a Facebook page such as the Holyland LAD Stories page. Then I want to fucking scream. 9 October 2012 at 09:29. 9 October 2012 at 23:58. Where...
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Ed Simpson: February 2013
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Wednesday, 6 February 2013. DUP and UUP need to embrace the left wing, just not the nationalist left wing. And when you apply it, it's fair to say that most countries have a political division along left wing/right wing lines. I'm not trying to describe the SDLP or Sinn Fein as left wing but merely pointing out that they're definitely more left than right and the reverse applies with the DUP and UUP. So here's the problem: who do left wing unionists vote for and who do right wing nationalists vote for?
SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT