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• Official advised Boris Johnson how to delay Arts Council appointment

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Memo from senior official appears to bolster case of critics who accuse Johnson of delaying tactics in order to install Veronica Wadley into Arts Council job A memo sent to London mayor Boris Johnson, released today, shows he was advised by a senior official in his team that he could hold up the appointment process ...
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• How did Veronica Wadley remain in ACE London race after first stage interview?

  
  UK news: Dave Hill's London blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 137
  And so, after the lunching and other candidate-wooing , on 18 June a shortlist of five for the ACE London job was arrived at by Munira Mirza and Liz Forgan (chair of the Scott Trust, which owns the Guardian). Interviews took place on 1 July, with Sir David Durie of the Standards Committee on hand ( page 295 ), ...
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• Boris Johnson and Veronica Wadley: some unanswered questions

  
  UK news: Dave Hill's London blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 137
  By way of a break from poring over this stuff , heres a list of questions Id like the Mayor or City Hall to answer. One : How does Munira Mirza respond to an Assembly members suggestion that Boriss behaviour has put her in the "very difficult position" of having to defend it? Two : Has there been a recent meeting ...
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• Correspondence about Veronica Wadleys bid for Arts Council London job emerges

  
  UK news: Dave Hill's London blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 137
  Chronologically, the first email in which Veronica Wadleys name appears in this fat stack of correspondence obtained under Freedom of Information was sent by Munira Mirza on 4 May to a person whose name has been redacted, and which she copied to the GLAs Head of Cultural Strategy, Justine Simons . By this time ...
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• Boris Johnson is thinking about getting a palace

  
  News Politics — Authority: 126
  It’s easy to see why Alexandra Palace might tick so many of Boris Johnson’s boxes. A fortress on high ground, able to control and dominate North London’s most rebellious Guardianista strongholds; a large, grandiose pile, neo-classical in parts; a very long history of engagement with the media (the BBC’s first ...
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• My Favorite Playboy Playmates: Sara Jean Underwood

  
  MoonDog Sports — Authority: 589
  The most popular among all Playboy Playmates is Sara Jean Underwood. Today, were highlighting her as one of My Favorite Playboy Playmates.
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• Call for inquiry into Boris contract

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Labour member of London assembly requests investigation into possibility of a breach of financial regulations over award of contract to host SportAccord event Boris Johnsons decision to waive competition rules for a contract worth almost £1m faced a new challenge today after a Labour member of the London assembly ...
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• Previous Arts Council London candidates spurn re-run as Veronica Wadley paper trail emerges

  
  UK news: Dave Hill's London blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 137
  Yesterday, the job ad for a new chair of the London region of Arts Council England was placed for the second time - the start of Mayor Johnsons re-run of a process that ended with the non-approval of his friend and erstwhile media ally Veronica Wadley by culture secretary Ben Bradshaw. Hed been advised by ACEs ...
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• Boris “Japanese Heavy Rock Hits Vol 3″ 7″

  
  OMG Vinyl ...Because Records Sound Better — Authority: 433
  Well, I cannot lie – this is the one I’ve been waiting for. I’ll just go ahead and let Wata sell this one. Order from southernlord.com .
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• Boris flies the flag for Scotland

  
  Campaign for an English Parliament — Authority: 107
  The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, flew the Scottish flag from the town hall yesterday to mark St Andrews Day. The flag was up most of the day before being ripped down by the wind. The wrath of a supernatural being?  The ghost of St George hacking it down with his dragon slaying sword?  Or was it just nature ...
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• Billy Joel’s historic Soviet concert tour

  
  Siberian Light — Authority: 107
  1987. The iconic red telephone had been on Gorbachev’s desk for two years, and Glasnost was just getting into gear. America wasn’t quite the enemy it used to be, and new freedoms meant that American rock music was suddenly not just cool, but almost accepted by the old timers in the Kremlin. Soviet music lovers ...
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• Free is good

  
  W?M — Authority: 127
  POLYVINYL One of Kategs favorite label, Polyvinyl, is offering a free 16-track album at polyvinylrecords.com/mentalmath. The sampler includes a ton of bands weve previously covered: Architecture In Helsinki, Mates of State, Asobi Seksu, Headl... Read and post comments | Send to a friend
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• More Boris K.

  
  Premium Hollywood - Entertainment blog, Hollywood blog, movie blog, TV blog — Authority: 482
  I’m not quite sure I did the great Boris Karloff justice with the clip I selected earlier this evening. Below, therefore, I’m putting some later career highlights of the great character actor who managed to play some of the nastiest monsters and villains of his era in innumerable films while also being ...
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• Post-Turkey Day film news bites

  
  Premium Hollywood - Entertainment blog, Hollywood blog, movie blog, TV blog — Authority: 482
  A few items as Hollywood finishes digesting its turkey and stuffing. * Paramount has picked up “Area 51,” the science fiction follow-up to the ridiculously profitable “ Paranormal Activity ” from writer-director Oren Peli. Somewhat to my disappointment, this one will also use the “found footage” ...
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• A Tomb for Boris Davidović by Danilo Kiš

  
  Bill's Blog — Authority: 120
  These are a collection of short stories set in the first half of this century. The settings include the Spanish Civil War and the Russian revolution.  One thought provoking idea is how history has been changed by people that have died that we don’t know anything about. Danilo follows these people and tells their ...
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• Moscow Mayor to Get $17K in Libel Case

  
  The Other Russia — Authority: 469
  A Moscow court has found opposition politician Boris Nemtsov and the Kommersant newspaper guilty of libel against Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, according to Nemtsov’s lawyer Vadim Prokhorov on Monday. Prokhorov said that the court has ordered Nemtsov, a former Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the opposition ...
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• The Feeding of the 5,000

  
  The Eye — Authority: 152
  A link in an email I received this morning led me to read about the ‘Feeding of the 5,000′ that is to take place in Trafalgar Square in London on December 16th. It is being organized by Tristram Stuart, who is an English author and historian, and also an exponent of Freeganism .  He is being assisted by ...
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• The Real Meaning of Those Stolen Climate Emails

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 499
  The pilfering of email correspondence among climate scientists from a major climate center in Britain two weeks ago has grown into a very public controversy unimaginatively dubbed “Climategate.” Some of the emails revealed those scientists scoffing at (but also fearful of) climate skeptics — to the point of ...
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• Boris Johnson talks to BBC1s Andrew Neil about his demand for London to get a fairer share of public spending

  
  PlayPolitical.com - London Mayor — Authority: 100
  Try not to spend the whole interview watching Boris hair in the wind!
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• People, poets and politicians: UK Climate Hearings take place

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 139
  There’s been a huge number and great variety of climate hearings all over the world. They’ve taken place on boats in Bangladesh, running races in Ethiopia and high in the Peruvian Andes. Last week people from the UK joined with the 1.5 million people from 36 countries who have taken part. It was a chance for ...
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