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IndyMedia UK - Network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues.

BBC - Includes interactive sites for television, radio, local, national and international news, sport, entertainment and education. Message boards, chat and communities, lifestyle advice and information on the use of licence fee money.

Guardian Unlimited - Home of the Guardian, Observer and Guardian Weekly newspapers plus special-interest web sites. Each includes news, comment and features plus breaking news, multimedia, ongoing special reports and free archives.

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Topix.net: United Kingdom - News from the United Kingdom gathered from various sources on the web.

BBC News - Front Page - UK Edition - Regularly updated headlines.

Telegraph News - UK News - Up to date headlines covering UK topics.

In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced. -- Helen Rowland That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing. -- 'Doc' Edgerton Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda cross-dressed as science. -- Linda Bowles, political columnist To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everythin Work expands to fill the time available. -- PARKINSON'S LAW News and Media The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. -- Helen Hayes My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character. -- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. -- Fred Allen News and Media You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. -- Milton Friedman "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) I am become death, shatterer of worlds. -- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. -- Unknown author, Levitating T News and Media It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people. -- Gore Vidal Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. -- Anthony Burgess "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) News and Media "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. -- Tom Clancy I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. -- Groucho Marx There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. -- Peter De Vries It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. - Oscar Wilde News and Media ...the fog is rising. -- Emily Dickinson, dying words Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30." -- Anonymous News and Media Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. -- Virginia Woolf "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) News and Media True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. -- Henry David Thoreau The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter really Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. -- Dr. Karl Menninger News and Media "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it? -- Albert Einstein "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an inquest. -- H. L. Mencken "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) News and Media We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry. -- John Webster "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) News and Media Conceit causes more conversation than wit. -- LaRouchefoucauld For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. -- Clifton Fadiman Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. -- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one News and Media We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction. - General Douglas MacArthur Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. -- Josephus Daniels "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) News and Media Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. -- Lauren Bacall There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. -- Charles Evans Hughes News and Media Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it." -- Jerry Seinfeld The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free. -- Indigo Girls, song lyric "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) News and Media You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. -- Beverly Sills It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. - Aristotle I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. -- Thoreau blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k News and Media "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. -- Gilda Radner The soul is healed by being with children. -- Fyodor Dostoyevski News and Media There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. -- Benjamin Franklin An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. -- Niels Bohr I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year. -- Bette Davis I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different. -- Tony Bennett, 1995 Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desparate to get out. -- Di Peatlins News and Media "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) News and Media Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window. -- Steve Bluestone If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee. -- Anonymous I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain. -- Carol Leifer "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. -- Anonymous News and Media No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. -- Abraham Lincoln Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. -- Francis Bacon Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's chara News and Media Hell is paved with good samaritans. -- William M. Holden the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation. -- Peter What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours. -- Woody Allen He who laughs last didn't get it. -- Helen Giangregorio The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. -- Bertrand Russell News and Media The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. -- Albert Einstein Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. -- Lewis Grizzard News and Media
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