digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2010/03/10/racism-and-hating-children/’;
digg_title = ‘Racism and hating children’;
digg_bodytext = ‘Next week begins European Week Against Racism, a week when organisations opposed to racism host events to highlight racial prejudice and discrimination, and to celebrate the existence of societies where discrimination on the colour of a person’s skin or their ethnicity is considered unacceptable.
Normally, I mark [...]

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2010/03/03/proposed-cuts-to-the-bbc-should-worry-tories/’;
digg_title = ‘Proposed cuts to the BBC should worry Tories’;
digg_bodytext = ‘The announcement of proposed cuts to BBC services has been overwhelmingly welcomed by commercial broadcasters and judged as too timid by many conservatives. Yet the proposed changes and the timing represent serious challenges for the Conservatives as a party, and we [...]

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2009/12/29/uk-should-expel-chinese-diplomats/’;
digg_title = ‘UK should expel Chinese diplomats’;
digg_bodytext = ‘The execution today  by the People’s Republic of China of a man with apparently obvious mental illness for drug trafficking should be met by the UK with a diplomatic response.  Summoning the Chinese ambassador  to the Foreign and Commonwealth office is not enough, and in [...]

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2009/08/24/a-response-to-byrnetofferings-on-education-funding/’;
digg_title = ‘A response to @ByrneTofferings on education funding’;
digg_bodytext = ‘I’m coming back to the ongoing discussion with Thomas Byrne on the rationale for public funding for education.  He has been responding int he comments to the blog, but I think the points he raises are interesting and level headed, so they deserved [...]

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2009/08/23/a-tory-defence-of-a-degree-of-public-higher-education-funding/’;
digg_title = ‘A tory defence of (a degree of) public higher education funding’;
digg_bodytext = ‘Libertarian Tory blogger Thomas Byrne makes some arguments recently on his blog, then debated on Twitter, about the desirability or not of state funding of University.
I don’t ever do this, but as a fellow Conservative, I am sure he won’t [...]

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2009/07/11/the-bare-essentials-of-inflight-safety-from-air-new-zealand/’;
digg_title = ‘The bare essentials of inflight safety from Air New Zealand’;
digg_bodytext = ‘Little to say about this wonderful new take on the inflight safety video, except the obvious comment that, if it makes people look at the video and stop irritatingly talking through the safety announcements, flights will be more beautiful things.  [...]

We are pissed with our MPs and want them to go straight; this does and should not mean we kick the hell out of them until nobody with any sense or real world earning potential would ever consider a job in politics.

Is Apple about to launch a new, sexy, desirable update to the tired Orange Order format? Will reformed Christians be crowding around the block all over the world to own their very own iProd?

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2009/04/26/just-when-labour-thought-it-couldnt-go-any-more-tits-up/’;
digg_title = ‘Just when Labour thought it couldn’t go any more tits-up’;
digg_bodytext = ‘Michelle Mone, lingerie tycoon and noted supporter of New Labour, has turned her back on the party as a result of the disastrous budget.
Ms Mone, from Glasgow, told the Scottish Sunday Express: “I certainly don’t mind paying more tax if [...]

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2009/04/19/the-road-were-on/’;
digg_title = ‘The road we’re on’;
digg_bodytext = ‘Spotted on a road in Connemara yesterday, beautiful day. Lest we forget!

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Spotted on a road in Connemara yesterday, beautiful day. Lest we forget!

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