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Politicians are untouchable
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
SHARON Osbourne doesn’t mince her words. “I’ve got what no British political party has – balls.”
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Why not legalise prostitution?
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
TG4 screened one of my favourite films the other day – Klute, made in 1971 and starring Jane Fonda as Bree Daniel, a high-class call girl.
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The Church needs a Vatican III
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
THE Catholic Church is a house divided.
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The world of sport and broadcasting has lost a true legend
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
GREAT commentators can add a magical quality to sport and our enjoyment of it.
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All for tipping the balance in homeowner’s favour
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
SO what was she supposed to do – wave a tube of lipstick at them?
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The kid from Tupelo would be 75 if he had survived
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
WE arrived in Las Vegas tired but excited.
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A picture is worth a thousand words
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
THE old newspaper adage that a picture is worth a thousand words is as true today, perhaps even more so, than it was 30 or 40 years ago.
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Parental involvement in child contraceptive advice
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
IN Britain in 1984, a woman named Mrs Victoria Gillick took the Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) to court over its guidance to doctors on the provision of contraceptive advice and treatment to young girls.
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Entitled to whatever private life he can salvage
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
SEX is definitely off the menu in the Tiger Woods household this Christmas. And the New Year could be erotically bleak as well for the world’s number one golfer.
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What kind of society do we want in 2010?
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
WHO are we? This is the question that the French President Nicolas Sarkozy has asked the French people to consider, to reflect on and to discuss. He wants a national debate on what it means to be French in the 21st century. It is an exercise that should please a nation proud of its philosophers.
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Is Enda really up for constitutional reform?
Wednesday, December 09, 2009
THE women just couldn’t stay away. Elderly, but adoring. And hopeful. “This man will make a real difference,” a woman from Dingle whispered to me. The man in whom much hope was being deposited is Enda Kenny, seen by an increasing number of people as our next Taoiseach.
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Persistent gender inequality across the globe
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
NICOLE Kidman is beautiful; she’s also talented and sexy and smart. But she’s wrong. She is wrong when she blames films for promoting violence against women. If Hollywood had that kind of baleful influence on society, Westerns would have been banned years ago. Does Ms Kidman actually believe Westerns promote gun culture?
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What’s justice got to do with it?
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
WHEN I was growing up I was in awe of three secular institutions --banks, hospitals and courthouses. Looking back now, I actually had an irrational dread of them, and I’m not even sure I’m entirely free of it today.
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Is there any such thing as ‘normal sex’?
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
BACK in the 1980s, when I wanted a copy of a naughty novel entitled Venus in Furs, I had to search Penthouse magazine for a period before finding an advertisement for a shop in Soho in London offering it for sale.
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Fundamentalism is a potentially lethal creed
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
The fundamentalists have the right to believe as they wish, but no right to stop the rest of us from speaking and believing something different. So declared Burt Lancaster, star of From Here to Eternity, in 1981 in a television advertisement that was part of a campaign to counter the influence of the ‘moral majority’ in the USA.
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