Kaya B. posted an article on Blogging à la Kaya Burgess - Feb 1, 2012, 12:05 pm
. Thank you so much for following this link. In tomorrow's paper, The Times will be launching a major cycle safety campaign, calling for a revolution of British streets. They need to be made safer for cyclists and also for the drivers who share the space with them. An increase in awareness and respo...
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Kaya B. posted an article on Blogging à la Kaya Burgess - Oct 25, 2011, 7:18 am
Benito Mussolini's crypt in Romagna By Kaya Burgess The beaten and bloodied body of Muammar Gaddafi was buried in a secret desert location at dawn today, against his wishes to be buried in his hometown of Sirte and against his family’s wishes to have his body returned. What happens to a dep...
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Kaya B. posted an article on Blogging à la Kaya Burgess - Jul 12, 2010, 10:29 am
.Rising Ghanaian star Joseph Ato Bissah, centre, with his pastor Henry Afful, left, and agent James Lippett, right Kaya Burgess “I am 20 now and have a wife and two very young children - I must support them and make sure they have everything they need. I have a chance to do this through football...
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Kaya B. posted an article on Blogging à la Kaya Burgess - Jun 13, 2010, 11:20 am
. While this blog is on indefinite hiatus, please feel free to check out these other projects and fiddly multi-media platforms: ------------------------------------ Follow my articles in The Times on Journalisted ------------------------------------ Check out my music and keep up with live dates...
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Kaya B. posted an article on Blogging à la Kaya Burgess - Dec 2, 2009, 8:42 am
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Kaya B. posted an article on Blogging à la Kaya Burgess - Dec 2, 2009, 8:42 am
. Ellie Goulding Cargo, London Monday, December 1, 2009 ***** Kaya Burgess When the publicity-machine kicks into full gear, it can be hard to separate the hype from the genuine buzz. But for Ellie Goulding, the buzz is still ringing in the ears of an impressed crowd at her London debut at Cargo la...
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Kaya B. posted an article on Blogging à la Kaya Burgess - Oct 14, 2009, 12:31 pm
. NME Radar Tour KOKO, London Tuesday October 13, 2009 The royal boxes and upper circles of the old Camden Palace welcomed the NME Radar Tour to London’s KOKO last night, for a showcase of emerging talent. With an astonishingly high keyboard-per-band-member ratio, Yes Giantess, Local Natives, Mari...
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Kaya B. posted an article on Blogging à la Kaya Burgess - Oct 14, 2009, 12:31 pm
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Kaya B. posted an article on Blogging à la Kaya Burgess - Oct 7, 2009, 6:33 am
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Kaya B. posted an article on Blogging à la Kaya Burgess - Oct 7, 2009, 6:33 am
. The Boxer Rebellion join support act The Molotovs on stage . The Boxer Rebellion The Garage, London Tuesday October 6, 2009 By Kaya Burgess **** How the Boxer Rebellion remain unsigned is a mystery. Their epic, almost industrial, soundscapes reverberated through The Garage in London’s Highbu...
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Kaya B. posted an article on Blogging à la Kaya Burgess - Jun 29, 2009, 2:08 pm
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Kaya B. posted an article on Blogging à la Kaya Burgess - Jun 29, 2009, 2:08 pm
. I had always wanted to take a “special train”. It sounded like something the Queen would do. Chances are, however, that Her Maj has never piled onto a Paddington train at nine in the morning with a rucksack of shabby clothes and a satchel of tinned ravioli as we did on Wednesday. Having antic...
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Kaya B. posted an article on Blogging à la Kaya Burgess - Jan 4, 2009, 12:09 pm
.Where once there was en masse conscription of men to join the King's armies, there is now to be an en masse commissioning of writers to contribute to The Conscience of the King. Hidden out there is an army of secret writers -- accountants, lawyers, bankers, journalists, doctors and clerks who secr...
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Kaya B. posted an article on Blogging à la Kaya Burgess - Dec 2, 2008, 2:07 pm
. . By Kaya Burgess The odd moment of madness keeps you sane, in the end. Staring out of a window at a frosty sunrise and laughing for no reason, apparent or otherwise. There’s nothing funny in the sunrise, not inherently. It’s just that it’s there, and there you are, staring at it. Maybe it�...
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Kaya B. posted an article on Blogging à la Kaya Burgess - Dec 1, 2008, 11:11 am
. Remember Blockbusters, with dear old Bob Holness? Where two people ganged up on one in a letter-based quiz-battle to get from one edge of the board to the other before your opponent could cut off your route and beat you to it? Well, following the belated announcement that the US state of Missouri...
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Kaya B. posted an article on Blogging à la Kaya Burgess - Nov 26, 2008, 1:51 pm
. I would like to bring to the world's attention the astonishing insight of Susan, from Sagamore Hills, USA. An article on the Times website proposes that Nicole Kidman cannot act and inspires hatred among the female sex just by her mere presence in a film. At the foot of the article, as for all art...
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Kaya B. posted an article on Blogging à la Kaya Burgess - Sep 18, 2008, 7:16 am
It’s all about walls. Lehmans has gone to the wall. HBOS and AIG have had their backs against the wall. Bankers everywhere are climbing the walls. Wall Street is in turmoil. Labour rebels are banging their heads against a brick wall. The writing is on the wall for Gordon Brown, who will almost ce...
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Kaya B. posted an article on Blogging à la Kaya Burgess - Sep 3, 2008, 6:31 am
. The mother of a teenager murdered in a drive-by shooting urged against any revenge attacks for her son’s death yesterday after an escalation of gang-related violence in Birmingham. Maxine Sharp, whose son Stephon Davidson, 19, died after being shot during a rush-hour car-chase on Monument Road i...
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Kaya B. posted an article on Blogging à la Kaya Burgess - Jul 2, 2008, 6:28 pm
. The immeasurably fantastic news has broken this evening that French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt has been released from her six-year long captivity after an 'audacious' raid by the Colombian military. Ms Betancourt was captured in 2002 while she was campaigning for the Colombian preside...
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Kaya B. posted an article on Blogging à la Kaya Burgess - Jun 4, 2008, 9:38 am
. Here's a thought: Why is the race in the US to be the Democratic Party presidential candidate getting such blanket coverage in the British press? Considering the flak British Prime Ministers and governments have taken in the media for cosying up to America and playing the "special relationship" c...
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Kaya B. posted an article on Blogging à la Kaya Burgess - May 31, 2008, 9:16 am
.Mexican history for hundreds of years was plagued by violence, war and revolution. It began for Mexico, as for most of Latin America, with the invasion of the Spanish conquistadors; the symbolic rape of an entire continent and culture by external forces. The image of this rape recurs in Mexican lit...
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Kaya B. posted an article on Blogging à la Kaya Burgess - May 26, 2008, 3:37 pm
. In 1919, after the Armistice ended the First World War, US President Woodrow Wilson drew up 14 guidelines to govern international diplomacy. These guidelines were the basis for the foundation of the League of Nations, an international diplomatic organisation in whose assembly chamber all the probl...
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Kaya B. posted an article on Blogging à la Kaya Burgess - May 20, 2008, 9:45 pm
. By Kaya Burgess As usual, he burnt his top lip as he took the first sip of his morning tea. Without flinching, he pursed his scalded lips and blew lightly over the rim of the chipped cup, sending up a waft of vapour, which steamed up his glasses. With a studied calmness he removed his gold-colour...
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Kaya B. posted an article on Blogging à la Kaya Burgess - May 20, 2008, 8:48 pm
Travel-writing is not an area I have much experience in, but a renewed love affair with travelling and a minor obsession with Michael Palin's circumnavigatory expeditions has lead me to have a go and see what happens. A little under two years ago, I was packing the contents of my world into two lar...
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Kaya B. posted an article on Blogging à la Kaya Burgess - May 2, 2008, 7:13 pm
. There are 1,168,738 reasons to be ashamed of London tonight. Bravo. What makes it worse, it that everyone has been so cringeingly oblivious and manipulable. The media, right-wing in its vast majority, have cynically propagated myths about the Mayorship of London, telling everyone that: a) the Mayo...
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Kaya B. posted an article on Blogging à la Kaya Burgess - Apr 30, 2008, 7:05 pm
What the hell are you doing sitting there reading this? Go and vote, for goodness sake. Go. Now. Right now. Put that cup of tea down, tie up that dressing gown and get yourself to the polling station posthaste. People didn't die in wars to defend your right to sit on your arse reading my blog (thoug...
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