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Entries from February 22nd, 2010

One for Lynne Truss

February 22nd, 2010 · 4 Comments · Life

I was just wondering.  If your wife has two brothers who share a house, or a brother who lives with his civil partner, how do you apostrophise their house?  Is it “My brothers-in-law’s house”?  I reckon that is right, but it does sound pretty clumsy.

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A future fair for all

February 22nd, 2010 · 6 Comments · Politics

I am not a big fan of political speeches generally, whoever they are made by.  I am also really turned off by campaign slogans, which soon start to blur into each other, so I was prepared to cringe when Gordon Brown unveiled the Labour slogan for the election this year.

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First-class councillors

February 22nd, 2010 · 9 Comments · Politics

The comments of Nicholas Winterton this week certainly wound a few people up for various reasons.  For once I find myself in total agreement with the official Tory party line that this represents “the out-of-touch views of a soon-to-retire backbench MP”, although I do wonder it it also represents the out-of-touch views of some MPs […]

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