What do Tiger (Sex Addict) Woods and Nicholas (First Class) Winterton have in common?
They are living proof that beyond a certain level of income – perhaps £40 k -- individual wealth does not bring extra happiness and provides only temptation, isolation and judgement-warping pomposity.
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Did Gordon Brown’s Valentine Day gamble pay off? Who knows.
Having sampled a You Tube clip of the Piers Morgan interview I could no more watch the whole programme than witness Mel Gibson being hung, drawn and quartered in Braveheart or Jordan being made to eat maggots on celebrity TV.
Asked if he got down on one knee to propose, the Prime Minister writhed like a crab being winkled from its protective shell.
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Shale Gas.
Two small words that could transform the world.
According to Tony Hayward, BP’s Chief Executive at the World Economic Forum in Davos, a “gamechanging technology” has arrived which “transforms the US energy outlook for the next 100 years."
American companies have discovered how to exploit new reserves of gas and coal by breaking up rock formations with a mixture of water, sand and chemicals in a process called hydraulic fracturing.
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He’s a blood sucking parasite whose power over ordinary mortals is eternal. He has yet to be exposed for murderous acts committed years ago. And yet in the hit BBC series Being Human the vampire is the vulnerable, courageous and moral hero in a petty, vindictive world of human spite.
Best Foreign Language Film award winner, Let the Right One portrays the struggle of a lonely, bullied, isolated boy befriended by the little girl next door, who happens to be a vampire. Where the Wild Things Are tells the story of a lonely boy who runs away to find acceptance on an island full of other “wild things” -- and the strength to re-enter “conventional” society.
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