By popular request, The Spinning News returns for June 2000 and July. Later news events form a major part of the daybook. The sections today:
| spinning news: the main news of a half month | entertainment: the secrets of the famous, and the funny items | womyn and men:
the gender gap, and sexuality matters | ethics:
non-party political matters, things the government should or might do| living
real life, in all its strange glory | media:
radio, press, television, and other mass communications | politics:
splitting the parties, or forcing apart the president. | |
| 1999 | |||||
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| September | October | ||||
| July | 1 - 16 | 17 - 31 | August | 1 - 31 | |
| May | 1 - 16 | 17 - 31 | June | 1 - 15 | 16 - 30 |
| March | 1 - 14 | 15 - 31 | April | 1 - 15 | 16 - 30 |
| January | 1 - 16 | 17 - 31 | February | 1 - 14 | 15 - 28 |
| 1998 | |||||
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| December | 1 - 16 | 17 - 31 | November | 1 - 15 | 16 - 30 |
| October | 1 - 16 | 17 - 31 | September | 1 - 15 | 16 - 30 |
| August | 1 - 16 | 17 - 31 | July | 1 - 16 | 17 - 31 |
| June | 1 - 15 | 16 - 30 | May | 1 - 16 | 17 - 31 |
| April | 1 - 15 | 16 - 30 | March | 1 - 16 | 17 - 31 |
| February | 1 - 14 | 15 - 28 | January | 21 - 31 | |
There are also opinion pieces and clippings from newspapers. I add these when I feel one is due, so check often for changes.
| Entertainment | |
|---|---|
| The future's female Womyn in the entertainment business | 3 April 99 |
| The Wedding of the Decade Popeye and Olive Oyl. | 13 March 99 |
| Countdown Richard Whitely and co. | 9 March 99 |
| New Barbie, new sales | 27 Febrary 99 |
| Attack of the Killer Canaries! | 23 Febrary 99 |
| Terry Wogan We love him to bits!! | 26 January 99 |
| All The Chinese How long till they can't all fit on The Isle of Wight? | 25 December 98 |
| Go Cows! "Stop Sending Us Poison," Says North Korea | 8 December 98 |
| Tortuous Television | 17 October 98 |
| The grave of J. Dawson | 29 August 98 |
| Direct from Broken, Herts | 18 August 98 |
| More on the Pussy Posse. | 8 August 98 |
| How Leo's backlash began. | 12 July 98 |
| Summer 98's best flicks. | 30 May 98 |
| Claire Danes on Les Mis | 29 Apr 98 |
| Jesus re-incarnated as a star actress | 21 June 98 |
| Why the Spice Girls are a 50's throwback | 28 Mar 98 |
| 20 things the makers of Titanic got wrong. | 4 Feb 98 |
| See also the Music section | |
| Womyn and Men | |
|---|---|
| International | |
| Sexism in The New South Africa: A foreigner's viewpoint | 2 Jan 99 |
| The Word of Yawa: Women and the Bible | 24 Dec 98 |
| Reproducing | |
| Reasons to reproduce | 19 Sept 98 |
| No kids, please and thank you | 18 July 98 |
| Neurotic Mothers' Monthly. | 31 Oct 98 |
| Identity | |
| That's Ms, if you'd be so kind | 11 May 99 |
| My name, my identity | 20 July 98 |
| What real girls want. | 4 July 98 |
| The new feminism in one house | 21 June 98 |
| A woman's place is on the web | 29 Apr 98 |
| Homo and Hetro | |
| AIDS amongst gay men | 3 Oct 98 |
| "Cured" gays | 8 August 98 |
| Can being gay be that dull? | 12 July 98 |
| Reasons why gay marriage is a good thing | 21 June 98 |
| Political bent | |
| A brief history of eloping. | 12 July 98 |
| QC Anne Rafftery on rape. | 9 July 98 |
| Why NOW is now historic | 28 Apr 98 |
| Living | |
|---|---|
| Products and consuming | |
| How to... Open a CD case | 17 Apr 99 |
| The Anti Gift List: All the prezzies you don't want. | 6 Mar 99 |
| Predictive Marketing Why I'm always prompted to buy utter rubbish | 23 Jan 99 |
| Let them use Mobiles! | 26 Sept 98 |
| Consumer rage | 29 August 98 |
| Junk Mail Is Good! | 18 August 98 |
| Don't we all love... McDonalds | 25 July 98 |
| International Culture | |
| Driving on the Right Right, or wrong? | 8 May 99 |
| The London Underground A strange beast | 26 Apr 99 |
| Why we might light candles | 19 Apr 99 |
| More Albanian Proverbs | 3 Apr 99 |
| Ya Don't Say!: Telling Americans that it is. | 27 Feb 99 |
| An Island Life Not too big, not too small. | 24 Dec 98 |
| A wired province's profile | 7 Nov 98 |
| Surviving a tidal wave | 24 Oct 98 |
| Cops and Bicycles | 26 Sept 98 |
| National Day | 13 August 98 |
| Some Albanian Proverbs | 26 July 98 |
| Say How it Is | |
| It's, like, not good enough. | 22 May 99 |
| Toronto's Big Snowstorm When's it arriving? | 8 May 99 |
| Hanging on the Telephone Just let us talk to a human. | 13 Feb 99 |
| Saying Nothing A quiet call to speak up | 9 Feb 99 |
| Dealing with big numbers The ones that make Bill Gates' accountant's head spin. | 9 Jan 99 |
| Dead Poetry Society Are schools undermining the most expressive form of literacy? | 19 Dec 98 |
| Revising your spelling | 7 Nov 98 |
| Neologisms | 5 Sept 98 |
| The US-UK Spelling Bee | 31 August 98 |
| Don't answer the phone | 15 Apr 98 |
| Time: where's it all going? | 10 Mar 98 |
| Odds 'n' Sods | |
| Being Forgetful: Its inherited, IIRC | 13 Jun 99 |
| Missing in Action: People or reason? | 20 Feb 99 |
| The Titanic - What really went wrong? | 17 Jan 99 |
| The Stealth Republic | 14 Nov 98 |
| Bondage for Beginners | 14 Oct 98 |
| Safety Helmets and Princes | 3 Oct 98 |
| How hot is Hell? | 3 Oct 98 |
| Another nation of tea drinkers | 31 August 98 |
| A bond too far | 22 August 98 |
| Doncha just love being held at airports? Here's why. | 21 June 98 |
| The Media Network | |
|---|---|
| Flops Like These Hoping to let That 70s Show cross the pond | 22 May 99 |
| Talk Radio UK A word to the new boss | 20 Feb 99 |
| The Warner Brothers Network Targetting teens pays dividends | 9 Feb 99 |
| Introducing the National Post Should Canadians be bothered about the South? | 30 Jan 99 |
| Reporting the Starr Report | 21 Nov 98 |
| The Court Circular | 14 Nov 98 |
| This Column Is Plagarised! | 3 Oct 98 |
| Teletubbies Conquer America | 15 Aug 98 |
| Wither radio news? | 30 May 98 |
| The betrayal of the tabloid reader | 1 May 98 |
| Gulf War II - the TV show? | 27 Feb 98 |
| Pure Politics | |
|---|---|
| Impeaching Clinton | |
| The Story of the Year. | 17 Apr |
| High Crimes and Misdemeanours What is one when it's home? | 25 Dec 98 |
| Time to Go, Mr Clinton | 21 Nov 98 |
| Clinton: those fibs in full | 24 Oct 98 |
| Clinton: liar, liar, liar | 24 Oct 98 |
| Britain in Europe | |
| Why The Euro Failed Looking back at the end of a flop currency. | 6 Mar |
| Businessmen afraid of the answer | 14 Nov 98 |
| Euro-Monetary Untruths | 31 Oct 98 |
| Europhile Dissent | 15 Oct 98 |
| Let's join NAFTA! | 12 Sept 98 |
| Unfair treatment for Air France. | 5 Sept 98 |
| British politics | |
| Killing Grammar Schools Yet another outbreak of Labour double-face. | 27 Feb 99 |
| Fixing the voting system Even though it ain't broke... | 30 Jan 99 |
| Rules for Resigning Leaked from Downing Street. | 26 Jan 99 |
| Can we copy your hard disk? | 17 Oct 98 |
| English according to Hague | 19 Sept 98 |
| Tony Blair, and rigged elections. | 2 July 98 |
| New Labour, new fibs | 15 Apr 98 |
| Peace finally comes to Ulster | 13 Apr 98 |
| The rest | |
| Vous parlerons Francais seulement You will speak French only | 11 May 99 |
| Brian Tobin as Canada's PM A preview | 1 May 99 |
| Moaning Minnies one and all | 10 Apr 99 |
| Selective Justice One law for Chile, another for Spain. | 13 Mar 99 |
| Sealing Their Fates Abusing seals for your own ends. | 6 Mar 99 |
| Iraq's error The November version (remember that?) | 20 Feb 99 |
| Hate Crimes A poor reason to legislate | 9 Jan 99 |
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