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Google have been forced to apologise (to the public? to Michelle?) for a search result. Apparently when one googles an image search for “Mrs Obama” one of the pictures in the resultant search is racially offensive. BBC reported that Google “apologised” for the result but what Google did is not exactly an apology. In fact…
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I spent a day in Brussels this week, mostly lounging around the cafes and eating very homely Italian food while my better half was busy submitting to the exertions of European civil service examinations. Regular readers of J’accuse will be no strangers to my dislike of the city that boasts of being Europe’s capital. I…
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At 18.48 Le Monde broke the news. Herman Van Rompuy (Belgium) was designated as the first “President of the EU” while Catherine Ashton (UK) is to be the first High Representative for Foreign Affairs. The Council meeting was widely expected to last into the early hours of morning so the sudden announcement comes as a…
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Dedicated to that hideous excuse for a national coach that is Domenech. Here’s to hoping that the Irish manage to overturn the 1-0 deficit by outmanoeuvering Domenech’s side. We’re still in full Scorpio swing and as everybody who has followed the hopeless coach’s antics knows, he has a particular antipathy for that sign. All the…
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Jack the chaperone leaves for BXL this afternoon and will stay there till tomorrow night. I’m essentially chaperoning the missus as she sits for the last of her fonctionnaire exams (fingers crossed) so I won’t have much to do in the city I love to hate. Which explains this post. Anybody out in BXL willing…
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This article and accompanying Bertoon (click to enlarge in Flickr) appear in today’s Malta Independent on Sunday. This week’s news highlight tells us that not many Maltese are really in favour of having a lesbian Prime Minister. Also, they’d rather have a Roman Catholic head honcho than one of any other particular faith (I wonder…