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Gerry Anderson: How Chinese fireworks dazzled watching world

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:00:13 GMT

Lin Miaoke mimes her way through the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics

Gerry Anderson: It’s all going up in smoke

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:54:24 GMT

This week, a bearded man stood up to be counted. Like many a native of this island before him, his stand was noble as it was hopeless. His bravery ranks with that of the lone Chinese student who stood, shopping bag in hand, in front of a bristling army tank in the friendless vastness of Tianenmen Square all those years ago, before the onset of Olympics made everything all right.

Why women enjoy singles nights more than men

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 06:00:41 GMT

Last week, a Belfast cinema cancelled its first singles night due to lack of interest from certain quarters.

Gerry Anderson: Why women enjoy singles nights more than men

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 06:00:41 GMT

Last week, a Belfast cinema cancelled its first singles night due to lack of interest from certain quarters.

Gerry Anderson: Those terrific factory girls and their lazy, useless men

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:20:44 GMT

I read an interesting article the other day about female employment in Derry in 1939. It seems that over 15,000 local women and girls enjoyed full-time employment in the business of making shirts whereas there was no work at all for the men.