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Little Tartan Socks

There’s a very funny post on Guido Fawke’s blog about Sean Connery’s shocks.
Actually, there are several laughs. Mishter Bond shplashing Mish Craig, Harman the umbrella thief and more. I can’t remember when British politics was last so entertaining. I saw a fine cartoon yesterday of a Labour Advent calendar, with a new crisis for each [...]

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Discombobulated Government

Steve Bell’s cartoon in The Guardian is the best thing I’ve seen yet about the lost discs fiasco, dubbed the Winter of Disc Content by BBC Radio 4’s Today program this morning, namely the government’s losing data about half the adult population and a large number of dependents.
More discs have gone missing. All this comes [...]

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Switzerland By The Sea

Europe is looming again as an election issue in British politics and Britain’s rapidly changing demography will surely have some interesting future impact on politics. 10% of Britons now live overseas and immigration is booming.

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Bill Deedes, ahem, Passses Away

Bill Deedes, the celebrated British journalist and former politician, has died at the age of 94.

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Ulster Says Maybe (Pigs Can Fly)

The Economist reports that Aer Lingus will soon operate international flights from Belfast, shifting its Heathrow service from Shannon, and reviving a route dropped by British Airways. It goes on to say
… many unionists felt their Britishness diminished by BA’s relinquishing of the link. How do they feel now that it is to be restored [...]

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