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We were unable to make it to the final ceremony in Rotterdam last weekend and so we only just got to know the news. The awards for the Th!nkaboutit pan-European blogging competition organised by the European Journalism Centre have been announced. J’accuse is honoured and pleased to announce that it was selected as one of the 20…
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The Italian newspaper La Stampa reports the story of Salvatore Cancemi, captain of the Italian fishing boat “Twenty Two”. On a stromy night Captain Cancemi and his crew defied the odds and bad weather and saved 300 souls from the sea. They returned to Lampedusa to a heroes welcome. Lampedusa too suffers wave upon wave…
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or why netiquette is another way of setting standards in blogging and why Vivamalta.org went one up on Running Commentary I had almost let this subject to rest. There is after all, only a minimum amount of reasoning that can be had with extremists. I had after all been told that netiquette should…
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“e ‘ntru u culu all’opposizione!” Italian comedian Antonio Albanese in a satyre of the politician “Cetto Laqualunque”.
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From the Guardian (with thanks to David Friggieri for the pointer) Glasgow-born Carol Ann Duffy chooses meaty subject for first poem as poet laureate – MPs’ expenses: POLITICS How it makes of your face a stone that aches to weep, of your heart a fist, clenched or thumping, sweating blood, of your tongue an iron…
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Obama’s palm… weapons of pest destruction (on the fly)