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And Another One

February 7, 2013 Longrider 5

I’ve started to collect Betteridges. Today’s example: Will chips make dogs behave any better? No. Tags: Betteridges+law+of+headlines, stupid+journalists

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Hardly Surprising

February 7, 2013 Longrider 3

Nich Brown, from the Motorcycle Action Group, said: “The number of older motorcyclists in Britain has risen over the past decade – as has the […]

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Cameron the Confused

February 6, 2013 Longrider 11

Having pushed a bill through parliament for which his party has no mandate, Cameron is asked if he would now grant the right (grant the right, mind, […]

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Another Betteridge?

February 6, 2013 Longrider 0

Following on from an example of Betteridge’s law of headlines the other day, we get another from the BBC. Well, sort of… Have young people […]

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Common Sense Really

February 6, 2013 Longrider 3

Since our filming, passwords have been changed, accounts locked down to private, and potentially embarrassing online histories deleted. And I’m being more careful too. Or, […]

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Questions to Which…

February 5, 2013 Longrider 8

The answer is “no”. Can Googling be racist? A Harvard study has found racial bias in Google searches. Yet it’s not the search engine but […]

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Oh, Do Just…

February 4, 2013 Longrider 12

Fuck off! Prof David Haslam, from the National Obesity Forum, said: “It is totally irresponsible and sending out the wrong message.” “It should be banned. […]

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Ouch!

February 4, 2013 Longrider 2

Y’know, sometimes fessing up straight away is the best course of action when you’ve been caught out doing something you shouldn’t have been (although cheating […]

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Bansturbatory Idiocy

February 1, 2013 Longrider 14

Memphis Barker demonstrates both his nasty authoritarian streak combined with rampant idiocy in his support for state control over what we put into our bodies. His […]