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Josh Barrie is a freelance journalist, covering lifestyle, society and travel, with the occasional outburst of political commentary.

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Drugs at Work? Social Experiment Gathers Pace

(0) Comments | Posted 15 January 2013 | (18:47)

Last year the Press Association reported a study that suggested at least one million Brits go to work with drugs in their system.

The study carried out 1.7 million tests and found that one in 30 employees were, or at least had been on some sort of...

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The Moalition: It's Time for Cameron and Clegg to Grow a Pair

(6) Comments | Posted 29 October 2012 | (00:00)

What's that I see, bristling oh so elegantly above his top lip? Poised, sitting, and cordially atoning for any misdemeanour he might indulge; any utterance untoward. Why, it's his moustache of course, gracefully propelling said gentleman to brilliance.

Moustaches are timeless. Or so they should be. Today it does...

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Tweet me Harder, Baby

(0) Comments | Posted 29 February 2012 | (15:51)

As far as Twitter goes, I'm just a recent hatchling. I'm okay with that, because I've only been genuinely 'active' on my account for about four or five months, really.

But it's no lie that we journalists harness Twitter as some superficial networking merry-go-round, as well as a tool...

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Dear Mr Gove

(0) Comments | Posted 16 January 2012 | (23:42)

Dear Mr Gove,

While I won't question your sanity, I will most certainly question your ability to act as the Secretary of State for Education.

The leaked letter documenting your wishes, proposing the use of public money to purchase Her Majesty the Queen a rather large boat categorically reflects a...

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Is Everything Crumbling for BlackBerry?

(3) Comments | Posted 12 January 2012 | (00:00)

With the iPhone 5 looming, and BlackBerry's data 'outage' affecting customers globally in October 2011, is there any hope for Research In Motion's BlackBerry?

According to internet forums, Twitter and tech blogs all over the world, more and more people are taking the leap from BlackBerry to iPhone; the...

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Thailand, Again: Really?

(0) Comments | Posted 8 January 2012 | (00:45)

I know it's only January, but already I'm hearing big and exciting plans for the 2012 summer months. Many of my friends - or acquaintances - are approaching their finals at university, and although they've already given Thai masseuses and Koh Phangan the pleasure of their company numerous times before,...

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The Round Robin: Annual Middle Class Brag Fest

(0) Comments | Posted 24 December 2011 | (00:00)

As the fifth round robin drops through my letter box, I wonder if I can go on. The tirade of middle class exposition never seems to cease, and while half of us pick up the post in the build-up to Christmas, forcing ourselves to wade through a month-by-month let-it-be-known waffling...

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Going Bald at 22: In Search of a Cure

(10) Comments | Posted 17 December 2011 | (00:00)

I'm thinning. Such a dramatic realisation hit me like a cold shower in December: unwelcome and harsh. It's the painful ill fortune of such calamity, a stark and unforgiving tale of life.

Why me? I question, as I awaken hunched under the falling water that is my life, why must...

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