Zesty.Lemon

It’s easy to forget that sarcasm is very much lost in the transition from vocal misgivings to the whimsical domain of the blogosphere, but anyone that wasn’t already expecting this news should expect to plummet slightly down the intellect scale. Partly because it’s a trend that’s not bucked for the best part of two decades, but mostly because this year sees the introduction of a new grading threshold at top end of the marking boundaries. So as statistics begin to whitewash every media outlet across the UK accompanied by pictures of students elatedly competing for narcissistic priority, for many it will be false hope on the news that the number of people wanting a place in further education far outstrips the availability.
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It’s not immediately obvious but as a nation and indeed a race, we’ve always had an infatuation with crime. Think about it, crime is one of best selling fiction genres, it’s a popular choice for television dramas and it generally receives critical acclaim when it graces the big screen. This got me thinking; which is always a dangerous thing. Is there such a thing as a great crime?
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After the doom, gloom and generally rocky road the financial system has been traversing the last couple of years, I can imagine that the treasury breathed a slight sigh of relief when the balance books of bailed out banks returned to profit this week. Northern Rock and Lloyds Banking Group both saw their books hit the black making £350 million and £1.6 billion respectively.
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Unless you’ve been living in a pit for the last four months, you couldn’t really have avoided the global media coverage surrounding the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig and the subsequent spillage in the Gulf of Mexico. Apart from bequeathing a level of lubrication rarely seen; in at least the feathered inhabitants of the Deep South, it hasn’t done wonders for Anglo-American diplomatic relations either.
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Mark Zuckerberg really hit the big time when he launched Facebook. Sure, they’ve had their issues with privacy and it’s occasional facilitation in child grooming which of course never looks good in the annual shareholders report, but on the whole, it’s redeveloped modern day networking and communication. Now this would be fine if it stopped there.
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People that know me personally will be fully aware that I’m an indiscriminate gadget whore, and I’ll cite this as the reason why I was to be found queuing in the dawn hours amongst like minded hordes for the much anticipated release of the new Apple iPhone 4.

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