Archive for May, 2011

In pursuit of the garden

By Timothy Bowes with 2 reader notes

I always find it strange when I encounter those Muslims that sneer at their brethren who profess a love of gardens — common though these detractors are — writing them off as middle-class liberals (that meaningless insult of our era). It is not that for many of the poorest people around the world the garden [...]

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This article was posted on Tuesday, 31st May , 2011 at 9:46 pm and is filed under Garden. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can also add a note to this post, or trackback from your own website.

It will

By Timothy Bowes with one reader note

If you let your faith go, it will go. If you let your anger consume you, it will.

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This article was posted on Wednesday, 18th May , 2011 at 8:17 am and is filed under Reflections. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can also add a note to this post, or trackback from your own website.

The fat prince

By Timothy Bowes

I confess that for most of the past decade I was convinced that the so-called Smoking Gun video purportedly showing Osama bin Laden describing the attacks on the World Trade Centre in 2001 was a fake. I believed it to be a lazy contrivance thrown together to convince a gullible public of the rightness of [...]

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This article was posted on Tuesday, 17th May , 2011 at 10:53 pm and is filed under Reflections. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can also add a note to this post, or trackback from your own website.
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