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Es ist nicht Rassismus

January 20, 2012 Longrider 3

Okay, so it was appalling behaviour. It was, maybe, mindless prejudice, but it was not racism. Mr Sharp, who was widowed two years ago, said […]

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Schama on Fellowes

January 18, 2012 Longrider 2

Simon Schama doesn’t like Downton Abbey. “Downton serves up a steaming, silvered tureen of snobbery,” Schama claimed. “It’s a servile soap opera that an American […]

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They Have a Point

January 17, 2012 Longrider 11

Using supermarkets to identify carers has been described as a “bemusing” and “nonsense headline-grabbing idea” by members of the health select committee. Well, yes. I […]

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Quote of the Day

January 16, 2012 Longrider 8

From Richard Wallace giving evidence at the Leveson Inqury: Asked about bloggers, Wallace says: “The out and out cowboys – I don’t see in the […]

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Someone Fell for it

January 15, 2012 Longrider 14

Following on from yesterdays cockwaffle about pancreatic cancer being caused by bacon butties, we get the hand-wringing Guardianista peddling their vegetarian religion again. People who’ve been […]

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Eat Up Your Greens

January 14, 2012 Longrider 2

Further to Mark Wadsworth’s generic scare story of the day in the comments over at OoL, we get this. Britons are not eating enough fruit […]

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Janupause?

January 14, 2012 Longrider 3

One of my managers used to have a month of abstinence. Every February he would go without the juice. As someone who liked a quaff […]