Margaret Marks: Weblog on German-English legal translation.
14. Dezember 2010 —Via someone who arrived at Transblawg, I found a link to a reader's letter on the Telegraph, from Sir Cyril Taylor, who apparently played a role in Tony Blair's creation of schools called academies. I am still trying to work out what this letter means. It seems to refer to the fact that the UK intro…
6. Oktober 2009 —The joys of the internet. Does one reply to an email like this? Hey Margaret, We're just checking in to see if you received your order (Ideal and Actual in The Story of the Stone) from XYZ Books. If your order hasn't blessed your mailbox just yet, heads are gonna roll in the * warehouse! Serio…
6. Februar 2008 —The European Tribune, which seems to be a kind of online forum for leftish persons in and interested in the EU, but run by people connected with the Daily Kos weblog in the USA, has provided an online petition to prevent Tony Blair being nominated as EU President. See Financial Times article. It nee…
5. Februar 2008 —Tony Blair's elder brother Bill has been appointed a High Court judge. William James Lynton Blair in Wikipedia. He doesn't seem to have that mad glint around the eyes - photo here. (Via Times Online)…
15. Januar 2008 —I haven't read any Robert Harris before, but this (Christmas present) was a very good read. The 'ghost' is a ghostwriter with no political interest who finds himself with a huge contract to write the autobiography of the former British prime minister, Adam Lang, a lightly adapted version of Tony Bla…
13. Januar 2008 —Certain Ideas of Europe, the Economist blog, under the heading Speaking French: a British terror, has links to clips of Tony Blair and Queen Elizabeth II speaking French, and Nicolas Sarkozy speaking English. Your reporter once had a boss in Brussels, many years ago, who came from a generation of …
26. Juni 2007 — The TLS - unfortunately only the print edition - is soliciting Poems for Tony. It tantalizes with snippets from a poem by Penelope Shuttleworth entitled 'On the Silence of Tony Blair, Following the Execution of Saddam Hussein', which ends with words given to Blair, 'I'll just say, as one powe…
11. April 2007 — I found a reference yesterday that suggested Tony Blair reduced the age of criminal responsibility in the UK from 14 to 10 (14 is the age in Germany and 10 in England and Wales). Anyone who remembers the two eleven-year-old boys in Liverpool convicted of the murder of a toddler will know the …
1. Februar 2006 — The British government’s Racial and Religious Hatred Bill was passed yesterday in a greatly watered-down form, thanks to the House of Lords, by a majority of one (this would not have happened if Tony Blair had voted…). Hansard: Motion made, and Question put, That this House disagrees with t…
10. Februar 2005 —Blair entschuldigt sich bei zwei Familien. The Guildford Four and the Maguire Seven, wrongly imprisoned in the 1970s, received an apology from Tony Blair completely exonerating them yesterday, because it’s one thing being not guilty and another being innocent. The...…
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