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Eoin Clarke: Plankety-Plank

May 9, 2012
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The graph above is classic Eoin Clarke: propaganda for credulous boneheads. Take a statistic. Find a way that simplifies and distorts reality with a big, shiny, wedge of colour. Then display it to ‘show’ an apparent rising trend of misery under the Ministrations of the Tory Government. Here he’s talking about ‘bankruptcies’: The graph above [...]

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The French Experiment

May 7, 2012
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We have a new experiment. Monsieur François Hollande est Le Président de la République. The most immediate effect is that we all have to find the cédille key on our computers for the first time since François Mitterrand, and that’s before blogging began. Perhaps this time we won’t need the circonflexe if he has fewer maîtresses (with or without tître) than [...]

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Da-da-da-da Da-da-da-da Gnatman !

March 1, 2012
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There are three truths that are unlikely ever to be universally acknowledged about Scottish Politics: Firstly, that First Minister’s Questions at Holyrood are even more a game of buffets than Prime Minister’s Questions at Westminster. Just

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Guardian Editorial Chimpanzees

February 27, 2012
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That word. Pah ! Yes – that one. Pah ! Three more times. Pah ! Pah ! Pah ! Good. Blood pressure reduced slightly. Now, I’d better start with an apology to all chimpanzees everywhere for comparing them to Guardian Editorial Writers. (Sorry, Cheeta.) I find that small things slightly wrong can be intensely annoying. The Guardian. This [...]

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Dr Eoin and Mr Brown

February 26, 2012
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Everytime someone blinks Dr Eoin Clarke seems to put more nails into the coffin of his reputation as a coherent, never mind credible, commentator. This week, we had Dr Eoin prattling away about how Consumer Choice is a bad thing (to be fair-ish, it is a polemic), based on a visit to Starbucks in Paris. I [...]

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SNP Bullshit Bingo

February 22, 2012
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Flippin’ ‘Eck and his chums are working their way through the world choosing Countries for Scotland to aspire to imitate. As the selected paragons fall over one by one, ‘Eck gets another country out of his pack of Top Trumps. Why not play along and check them off, and keep a note when they stop [...]

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Pedestrianise the Olympic Zil Lanes

February 17, 2012
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The gents and ladies from the Olympic 5 Ring Circus have been kind enough to force our Government to pass laws to allow the 80,000 members of the Olympic ”family’ (any from Sicily, we wonder?) to have a network of Zil Lanes throughout London. As Christian Wolmar put it: London, though, is blessed with an [...]

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