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"NHS 111 to blame for rise in A&E attendances is a really dreadful explanation for something that did, in fact, not happen". (Thankyou Steer for a good piece of analysis.)
Ed Miliband thinks that an Italian who runs an American company and lives in Monaco should pay "his (British) taxes". This is a Labour policy I can get behind - get foreigners with no connection to the UK to pay all our taxes. Brilliant. I would totally vote for this policy. (When you think about it, it’s pretty much the policy that successive Greek governments have adopted for years…)
The German government uses Battlestar Galactica LARP (on an actual warship) to train diplomats.
Apparently women aren't rational. (This is the latest in a long line of what I like to call ‘pseudo-economics’ books that litter the shelves of high street bookshops. Just as you find history shelves full of books about secret societies and how the freemasons are looking after the Holy Grail until the aliens land, you will find books in the ‘Economics’ section written by the sort of people who think Adam Smith is a member of One Direction. Pfft.)
Hmm. We've been thinking we could do with a projector for the business...
Schoolboy suspended for saying he could make classmate 'disappear' with the One Ring. Actually, the funniest thing about this story is that there is a town in Texas called ‘Kermit’. *
The To Kill a Mockingbird sort-of-sequel. Should we be suspicious? Yes. No. Yes.
Rotherham Council, the council that allowed 1,400 children to be gang-raped and sexually abused by muslims, is to be taken over by central government until elections can be held.
Is Rotherham the tip of the iceberg? "How much does the Labour Party know about the stench of corruption, sexual malfeasance, public maladministration and greed, incompetence and pro-Asian bigotry emanating from Labour's heartlands?"
Or is the whole Rotherham problem simply a case of a "rotten borough"?
Top 10 'Things that Ed Balls Has Forgotten'.
"How Sci-Fi's Most Prestigious Awards Became A Political Battleground"
Bryan Henderson doesn't like the phrase "comprised of".
"Big accountancy firm accused of saving people money" I particularly love the phrase “in blatant accordance with the law”.
Adding up the wealth of the poor - the meme that refuses to die.
The World's Poorest Man.
The Information Commissioner's Office is the public body that enforces privacy and electronic communication regulations. Guess what they forgot to renew.
Random Guardian comment generator.
Today is the 40th Anniversary of Margaret Thatcher becoming leader of the Conservative Party. The Labour Party has never had a female leader, but it clearly knows how to attract female voters.
* Has anyone else read ‘A World of Ice and Fire’? Lovecraft references I can take, but Sesame Street…?