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Disturbing the British Conscience: Five Minutes with Brian

Brian Haw is a veteran protester. He has been camping outside the houses of Parliament in London in opposition to the British wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for 9 years now. I payed "Democracy Square" where he lives a visit when I was in London last weekend.

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In an extreme case of future preparation someone has started to discuss the end of the world. LONDON, (Reuters)-- An asteroid is on a collision course with the earth and you have one hour left to live. What would you do in your last 60 minutes?

Not surprisingly, the majority of Britons questioned in a survey -- 54 percent -- said they would like to spend it either with or on the phone to their loved ones.

For more of the story visit  http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/oukoe_uk_endoftheworld;_ylt=Av8m6C2Fuh5T1WrK0....

Cheers to a group of London Pub regulars who were able to fight off an armed gang at their neighborhood spot.Publishd by The Sun, written by Alex Peake

An armed gang raided a pub and were battered by regulars throwing ashtrays, glasses and bottles of bubbly. Thirty drinkers waded in after five masked thugs tried to rob them at gunpoint and demanded cash from the tills. And they kept up the onslaught until the would-be robbers fled – even though one of them fired a gun.

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The Australian musical Priscilla Queen of the desert has received some bad reviews and some glowing reviews, but because of them or despite of them the show has sold out night after night since it arrived in London. Luckily for us my baby sis was feeling generous and took my man and me to see the show last week.

What a show - an extravaganza just made for karaoke fans like me - all the cheesy classics jammed higgledy piggledy and all wrapped up in fabulous feather and sequin festooned costumes. While the boys in their frocks provided us with the action the vocal stars of the show were the lovely lady singers who spent much of the evening hanging from strings from the ceiling, who provided the voices for the lipsyncers. Their towering orange hair and fishtail gowns gave them the appearance of Ariel from Disney's little mermaid, as they imitated immaculately divas from Tina Turner to Cindi Lauper.

I was more than a little surprised looking around my fellow audience members to see such a mainstream crowd. I go to a lot of drag shows and am used to sharing the stalls with enthusiastic fag hags and their GBFs, but this crowd was what you'd expect at phantom of the opera not Trannyshack. The middle-aged builder sitting next to my sister and displaying his ample bum crack during the interval couldn't have been more of a surprise to us. Does this mean that the drag fans are now main stream and homophobia is a thing of the past? As homophobia is one of the central themes of the piece this would seem to be a case of job well done!

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Original article by Daily Express

A schoolgirl took drastic action to deal with her “moaning” grandmother – she put her up for sale on eBay. Ten-year-old Zoe Pemberton described Marian Goodall, 61, as “rare and annoying and moaning a lot” but also “very cuddly and loves word searches”.

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introduction by Alex Jordan

England is capable of breeding a particularly fierce brand of old lady (see Monty Python), capable of resorting to violence if their supremacy in the shopping queue is questioned.

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Have you always thought that the squat scene was mostly represented by crack heads, vandals and autonomous homeless people? Well, then, it’s time to change your mind!

Article and graphic by Alexander Venndt

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