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Quite by chance, I visited my own blog today for the first time in ages and discovered that it had been three months to the day since my last post. That is truly pathetic and is a new recor… Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
Well, news from New Zealand has made the BBC News website once again, and as usual it's an odd and faintly embarrassing story. It seems that's the only way we ever break international headli… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Here's a criminal sentence you will not see every day: 15 days of gardening. No, really.A British man who overstayed his visa in Zambia, has been found guilty and sentenced to 15 days of gar… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
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2006-05-15 22:31
I don't know how I missed this when the news broke a few days ago, but in case you missed it too, it's official, New Zealand is not for sale.Last week, some unnamed Aussie larrikin listed Ne… Read More
2006-05-15 22:26
Gee, it's been a while. Let me make it up to you with a joke.What do you call a grizzly bear crossed with a polar bear?Actually, it's not a joke at all. You call it Ursus maritimus horribili… Read More
2006-04-26 21:16
It's twenty years today since the Chernobyl disaster, the world's worst civil nuclear accident. My, how time flies. I remember the news reports and the concern, even in far-flung New Zealand… Read More
2006-04-25 06:34
Today, 25th April, is ANZAC Day, the day on which Australians and New Zealanders commemmorate the disastrous failure of the Gallipoli landings on this day in 1915, as well as remembering and… Read More
2006-04-24 17:23
Oh dear! The BBC news website has been hit by the shoddy headlining bug which plagues so many newspapers as well. From this article's headline we learn the extremely dramatic news that all o… Read More
2006-04-21 17:55
It's New Zealand's Head of State's birthday today. She turns 80. How nice.So, happy birthday to Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern… Read More
2006-04-16 11:32
A very happy Easter to all who celebrate it Read More
2006-04-12 11:05
Also on the front page of BBC News today is a story about the Australian Prime Minister, John Howard. Now, anyone who's been reading my blog since the early days already knows what I think o… Read More
2006-04-12 10:21
Today once again, New Zealand graces the front page of the BBC News website. As ever, though, it's bad news.It would seem that a young British chap had been missing in the Coromandel region… Read More
2006-04-11 23:03
Further to my post yesterday on the results of the Italian general election, there has been an, umm, interesting development. The official results are in, and Romano Prodi has been confirmed… Read More
2006-04-10 17:32
Were today a Saturday, this would qualify as a "good news Saturday" post: exit polls in Italy suggest that Silvio Berlusconi may well have been ousted in the general election. No results hav… Read More
2006-04-10 17:13
Ugh!I'm back in Trier for a few days. In my absence, they've had a change of state government. I'll try to knock a proper post about it together later in the day.Well, that never happened, d… Read More
2006-03-29 10:19
I'm back in Trier for a few days. In my absence, they've had a change of state government. I'll try to knock a proper post about it together later in the day Read More
2006-03-25 16:43
Germany is in the grip of World Cup fever. Barely a day passes here without some new story about the upcoming World Cup, whether it's doubt about the safety of the stadiums, concern about th… Read More
2006-03-25 16:24
It's been a long hiatus for Good news Saturday, but it's back. Today's good news comes from Africa, specifically Nigeria.It has been announced that the Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo (… Read More
2006-03-23 15:33
In what may or may not become a regular instalment here at The Capital Letter, this is the bit where I get to ask a question of my readers and you get to help me by enabling me to cure my ig… Read More
2006-03-23 11:54
Wow! This is good news: three hostages, one Briton and two Canadians have been freed in Iraq after four months in captivity.Jolly good show. More of the same for the dozens thousands of host… Read More
2006-03-22 22:04
Germany won. Germany 4 - USA 1. The world will not end tonight. What a relief!Not a very good game though. Still, you can't have your cake and eat it.Tags:sportGermanyfootball Read More
2006-03-22 17:25
... if I am not here tomorrow, and there is no news coming out of Germany, it will be because the German football team will have lost to the United States in this evening's game and the worl… Read More
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