Jul. 7th, 2008
Unable to resist the challenge,
flaneurette has reproduced CITV's dubious bookends (complete with wormy segments):


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I couldn't help but think of this, from Blue Jam:Police called out to a 999 call about an unexplained object in the night sky solved the mystery straight away for their operator—“It’s the Moon, over.”
But the emergency call meant the officers were sent out to a house in the valleys area of south Wales. They were told a “bright stationary object” was spotted above the unnamed caller’s home.
A recording of the call has been released as part of a police campaign asking people to use 999 appropriately. [BBC]
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Send 'em home! Wait, which party am I in?
Jul. 7th, 2008 03:20 pm
UK is sending 11,000 Mugabe refugees backWhat’s depressingly familiar about this is that yet again it’s happening under the party that does give a fuck. Let’s face it, it’s not going to improve under the subsequent administration.
Attempts by Gordon Brown to use a meeting of G8 leaders this week to campaign for tougher action against Zimbabwe are in danger of being undermined by claims that Britain is forcing as many as 11,000 Zimbabweans seeking refuge here to make a stark choice between destitution or returning home to possible torture or death. Letters obtained by The Observer show that the Home Office continues to order failed Zimbabwean asylum seekers to return home in the face of mounting violence.
“These letters are shameful,” said Donna Covey, chief executive of the Refugee Council. “It is appalling that the government is continuing to order Zimbabweans to go back to Zimbabwe, especially under the current circumstances, and basically leaving them to starve if they don’t.” [Guardian]