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In Britain, a poll commissioned by the Charities Aid Foundation confirms that public spending cutbacks and falling donations are conspiring to devastating effect. The foundation warns that as many as one in six charities believe they may close in the coming year, while nearly half say they are being forced to dip into reserves. One …
The husband of a New York woman who was turned away from a flight back to the US for being too fat is suing two airlines for her untimely death. Janos Soltesz and his wife Vilma, a 56-year-old diabetic with kidney disease who weighed 30 stone, flew to their native Hungary in September, and planned …
According to Hanna Rosen (The End of Men), a survey in 2010 showed that 29.1% of women preferred having a boy as their first-born, and 36.3% wanted a girl (the rest had no preference). For men the gap was even higher, with 23% preferring a boy and 42.6% a girl. It took an imaginary third …
A study has shown that 1 in 6 parents of under-11’s never read to their children before bed, while a third read to them once a week at most. Under 11’s spend three times as long browsing the web and watching TV than reading. And what are they watching? Society, as re-designed by the big …
The media barely commented when the U.S Defence Department announced it was going to recruit more than 1,600 new spies, and assemble a spy network to rival that of the CIA. The Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) has traditionally focused on providing military intelligence relating to current conflicts. But the growth of the “security” apparatus seems …
