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Starbucks: Let them Drink Tea

December 13, 2012 37 comments

  Oyez. Oyez. Oyez. Hear-ye. Hear-ye. Hear-ye. Hear me. Hear me. hear me. Insofar as, Starbucks having been declared to be Tax Avoiders by the Court of Planet Mars, i.e., the Marsupial Court, and failing to note that they may or may not be guilty of that offence, we hereby celebrate that the Boycott of [...]

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Premature Articulation yet again.

August 12, 2012 24 comments
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50 odd years ago, Frank and Chick Plant were laying out the pineapple squares and fish paste sandwiches in preparation for a grand party. They lived in the idyllic property illustrated. It was bought in extraordinary circumstances – blind, you might say – since neither of them had seen the house or knew of the [...]

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I’m going to Walsh that man right out of my hair!

August 10, 2012 16 comments
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Let us imagine for a moment that you are successful in your career. The bank balance is piling up nicely, you have an offer on your modest suburban mock-Tudor, and your wife has fallen in love with a magnificent barn conversion in a group of three nestling in idyllic countryside. Life is looking good. You [...]

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Polly Maths

August 2, 2012 14 comments
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Here we go again. Polly Toynbee had a narrative rant this week after Danny Boyle’s Olympic opening ceremony. Half of it is soaring rhetoric; the other half an assortment of claims alleged to be proof of the rhetoric. Ooooh Danny Boyle … the hypes, the hypes are caaaalllling From yen to yen, we must remake [...]

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***Exclusive*** Paedophilia and Bizarre Uses for Parliament.

July 18, 2012 29 comments

It is easy to wonder ‘What is the purpose of Parliament’ these days, when all they seem to do is conduct a childish haranguing match over the dispatch box. John Hemming MP has today reminded us that the whole purpose of Parliament was to be able to redress the grievances of individual citizens when all [...]

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Leveson Schmeveson, it’s a waste of time and money…

July 9, 2012 25 comments

The media will never change, not so long as the dual pressures of vanishing advertising revenues and 24 hour rolling news schedules to fill are in place. Leveson can invite as many ex-Prime Ministers and newspaper editors as he wants to spend an afternoon raising their profile and discussing their past ‘hurts’ at the hands [...]

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Wheelchair access to the Blogosphere.

July 7, 2012 30 comments

Lord help me blog from day to day In such a tort defying way That even when I forget to pray, My prose will be accessible. Help me find the pluggins do, As the legislation doth accrue I know the things I write for you Must needs be heard by others And when the blind [...]

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