Articles by Richard Lemmer
Richard has written 15 articles for Nouse
By Richard Lemmer — January 18, 2011
Taxi drivers across York spend night after night ferrying students, drunken, merry or otherwise, safely home. But what do these intrepid nightriders have to say about their experiences? Richard Lemmer investigates
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By Richard Lemmer — June 22, 2010
Will it ever be acceptable for little girls to dream of being pole dancers? Richard Lemmer talks to the York Pole Exercise Club and Natasha Walter, author of Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism about the line between degregation and liberation
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By Richard Lemmer — February 23, 2010
These men have seen us when we are at our worst. Richard Lemmer investigates the stories behind York’s favourite takeaways
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By Richard Lemmer — May 21, 2009
The USA has been gripped by three simple words that most Americans can’t explain – ‘Cap And Trade’. President Obama is trying to pass legislation that will impose caps on the quantity of carbon emissions individual companies are allowed to release, with companies releasing less than their allotted quota being allowed to sell the surplus on.
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By Richard Lemmer — May 13, 2009
Another murder mystery from America’s favourite sandpit: a McClatchy website reports that “American soldiers opened fire and killed a 12-year old boy after a grenade hit their convoy in Mosul on Thursday”. Did the US military mistake a pre-pubescent child for insurgents, as friends of the boy believe?
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By Richard Lemmer — May 4, 2009
Can anyone tell me the address of Aislinn Simpson of the Daily Telegraph? For Aislinn is the winner of The Biggest Non-Story Of The Week award, a fictitious award for fictitious news stories.
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By Richard Lemmer — April 3, 2009
At yesterday’s G20 protests, there was one group of people awaiting the action more eagerly than the anarchists.
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By Richard Lemmer — March 20, 2009
Far away on the World Leaders’ Luxurious Resort island, there is culture of see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. The evil is climate change.
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By Richard Lemmer — March 13, 2009
What kind of man is the President of Syria, Bashar al-Assad?
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By Richard Lemmer — February 22, 2009
How do you feel about MILF love? On the Philippine island of Mindanao, it’s a matter of life or death. After 6 months of sporadic fighting which hasdisplaced over 500,000 people, the Philippine government is resuming talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
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By Richard Lemmer — December 8, 2008
How do you fight the human skulls, bleeding syringes and coffins, finger pointing, sickly faces and fearful looks of HIV? How do you help someone suffering from the “extraordinary” virus? If you’re Thabo Mbeki, you make it ordinary; tell people HIV is caused by poverty, bad nourishment and general ill health, and that they shouldn’t take expensive Western medicine – no matter how life saving it has proved to be. Of course, Mbeki is accused of 330,000 “needless” deaths by a Harvard research team and a leading South African AIDS activist. Ignoring mainstream medicine isn’t going to win you any awards from the international community.
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By Richard Lemmer — November 29, 2008
“Should shopping be a patriotic duty?” the BBC asks. If so, I’m going to be one of the first traitors against the wall.
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By Richard Lemmer — November 28, 2008
It has taken a while to get used to it – the fact that is, not the disease. In fact, the disease has the been the easiest part of my diagnosis. I’m positive the part where I caught the disease wasn’t too bad either.
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By Richard Lemmer — November 25, 2008
Richard Lemmer spends a weekend with the Da! Collective in their £6 million squat, investigating whether the mainstream media’s portrayal tells the whole truth.
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By Richard Lemmer — November 24, 2008
A democrat may have won the American election, but the election itself seemed to represent the Republican symbol: a garish red, white and blue elephant, trumpeting it’s self-importance and stealing the limelight more with its size than its substance. Obama is now a world famous name. Yet during the rigmarole of Romney’s millions, Hillary’s trouser suits, Obama’s socialism, McCain’s outbursts and Palin’s… well… everything, the names of Nasheed, Mbeki and Tsvangirai were drowned out.
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Tales of the taxi home
A doll’s life: a choice or a consequence?
The kings behind the kebabs
The Telegraph: my favourite work of fiction
A case of ‘them versus us’?
Got that sinking feeling
Syria’s Pursuit of Unhappiness
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