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Entries from August 12th, 2014

My favourite Robin Williams line

August 12th, 2014 · Comments Off on My favourite Robin Williams line · Life, Politics

One reason why I like comedy is the way that a comedian can often manage to sum up a whole social issue in a one-liner that makes its point better than a politician could in an entire speech, and still make you laugh  When politicians try humour it is cringeworthy at best, but when comedians […]

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Will the last minister to leave the Foreign Office please turn out the lights

August 12th, 2014 · 1 Comment · Politics

I have never really taken to Baroness Warsi, but at least she resigned on a matter of principle, unlike Mark Simmonds. I don’t think that being unable to scrape by on many times the average wage really counts as a principle. When I see him complaining that MPs’ expenses can’t pay for him to rent […]

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