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How election paid off for postwar Tory MPs

March 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Politics

A couple of Harvard PhD students have been studying MPs’ earnings, and seem to have come up with no great surprises.  They seem to have been using information from wills to see how much ex-MPs were worth when they died, and comparing them to will from parliamentary candidates who didn’t get elected but were in [...]

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Planet Terror

March 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Life

The other night we sat down to watch Planet Terror.   Jayne rented it as a surprise and a treat for me because she knows that I really like Zombie films and Robert Rodriguez films so a Zombie film directed by Rodriguez was a no-brainer.1  It turned out to be possibly  the goriest film  I have [...]

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Worthing wood

March 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Life

There must be something in the water down in Worthing…  There is some video at the Argus demonstrating how the wood on the beach there could have been cleared by using Star Trek spaceships.  Fools.  Have they forgotten that the beach is guarded by daleks?

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