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BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | China hails space hero So – no need for all that secrecy in the end. An amazing thing, even if it does look like a bottle bank.. Yang Liwei keeps up the tradition of astronauts saying very little of interest, though. His first remark from space was “I…

Has pushed the blog skew whiff. It’s being removed until I’ve edited the swine into a more helpful shape.

China Ready for Human Spaceflight And they’ve done it! I’ve seen a couple of sour grapes jokes about the mission today. Yeah, yeah, yeah – the ship may well be a copy of the Soyuz, but this is still amazing. Great – we haven’t done anything new since 1968 – but we can still carp!…

Clients – British Monomarks Ltd. Well, this is where the postcode our friend from “England First” gave points to through the Royal Mail postcode finder. What a surprise! It’s a mailbox company. But their “clients” page doesn’t seem to mention the fascists. Rather shy, wouldn’t you say?

Link to story Original Berliner Kurier article Vienna’s Der Standard reports that a Berlin man will appear in court on Thursday charged with “using the characteristic marks of an unconstitutional organisation”, an offence under German legislation forbidding neo-Nazi activities, Paragraph 86a of the Federal Criminal Code. The nature of the alleged offence is unusual –…

Thunder Run: Revisiting the Battle for Baghdad (washingtonpost.com) Very interesting interview with the leader of the first assaults into Baghdad. It was his lot who were visible over the Information Minister’s shoulder whilst he was denying they existed. “in the process, you want to create as much chaos as possible out here. Why is that?…

By the way, I noticed this the day after Iain Duncan Smith made his “speech”. All those orchestrated jokes about the Liberal Democrats were mysteriously missing from the text given to the Press by the Tories. Did I hallucinate it? Or did the Tories – totally straight and honest and opposed to any of that…

After much trying we finally have an outgoing RSS feed that works. For anyone who wants to syndicate the Ranter, go to that “BlogRSS” graphic on the sidebar. All right?

A Fistful of Euros It’s good to find – at last – a pro-European blog! With a quote from the eminent (and now very late) historian, H.A.L. Fisher on the top. “Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.” Rather fine.