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Feb23

News Flash: National symbol now a condom

Not much more to add to this, except that as the current economic crisis is global, this probably applies just about anywhere.

Truer words...

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Feb18

Jade Who?

One of Mitch Benns’ better numbers…

No offense love, but why are you still here? Why are we still seeing you on the news?

Why are you still turning up on the TV, with gormless journos asking for your views?

When you don’t dance you don’t sing, you don’t do a bloody thing
there’s no telling where your talent might begin

but still your mug appears, god knows how many years
after that stupid bloody show you didn’t win

No offense love, but what’s it all about, tell me just how long do you expect…

to drag this spurious situation out, please bugger off and get some self respect!

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Feb11

Bonuses for Bankers? Bollocks!

Banker Bonus

Unbelievable!

Despite the fact that their selfishness and greed has dropped us all into the worst financial crisis for decades, RBS, Northern Rock and HBOS bankers are still planning to pay themselves bonuses!.

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Feb04

Obama is only human

Obama thinking

Today’s news story about President Obama admitting that he “screwed up” over his handling of a controversy that led two politicians to decline posts in his administration, is – I think – a welcome breath of fresh air.

One of the things that politics has increasingly suffered from in recent years (and this is particularly true of US politics) is an ever-growing tendency by Joe public to view the top dogs as infallible. If they make any kind of mistake (even comparatively small and relatively honest ones), they get crucified by the press.

This tends to create an environment where politicians do one or more of the following, whenever they “screw up”:-

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Feb02

Snow and Chaos

'Some' Snow

Last night’s heavy snowfall (at least by British standards) has predictably caused the usual commuter chaos today.

Large sections of the rail network have shutdown completely, London buses, trains and even the tube have largely ground to a halt and the roads are, by all accounts jam-packed.

And all for less than 6 inches of snow.

Why is that?

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