Punishing aspiration — The Browne anomaly

Via Flickr creative commons Punishing aspiration. We’ve all heard that a lot recently right? Ever since the Lib-Con government spliced its way into power it seems to have been somewhat of a mant.

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Public Health minister thinks we don’t understand the word obese.

Anne Milton, the new public health minister, that heavyweight ministerial position that neither you nor I knew existed until she decided to say something nonsensical this morning, has decided t.

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The hard sell

It’s a broadly accepted fact that Michael Gove is a twat. The problem is, the best salesmen tend to be. That’s why it’s vital we don’t swallow Gove’s shit-sandwich about.

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James Delingpole is helping nobody

James Delingpole is an interesting man. Today he blogged that he could no longer enjoy Peep Show because one of the actors in it, David Mitchell, disagrees with him about climate change. Now if you .

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Why I choose not to believe Anna Richardson is a real human-being

This first line should start with “because” shouldn’t it? And I tried to do that, but the ensuing sentence was so long and involved that it somewhat ran out of steam. Hence I chose.

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How to pull a tooth with a rocket

I don’t think I’m alone in thinking that this World Cup so far has been a tad underwhelming, a bit lame, crappy… dull. The best performance I’ve seen so far (disregarding Ger.

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My tuppence on the BP affair

Something deep under the the Mexican gulf went pop and all of a sudden thousands of barrels of oil were spewing into the sea. And. That. Was. Shit. BP were slow to respond as they wrangled with Transo.

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