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The issue of the spies is probably not one that has jogged our interest beyond slight bemusement and yet a couple of little birdies told me some things about it. Reuters wonders: “‘How much of the information we got was planted by the FBI — that’s what they’ll be wondering in Moscow Center,” said Robert [...]

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1. How many inches long is a wire coathanger, when straightened? 2. What are the two animals which can see behind themselves without turning their heads? 3. Which UK city has 22 more miles of canals than Venice? 4. Who is the largest toy distributor in the world? 5. The shortest war in history was [...]

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1.  We all know about the Brussels diktat on going metric which got our knickers in a twist but the UK had actually agreed to it in a white paper which came out in which year?

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Science and religion should not be at the odds they are because both are seeking to explain all the phenomena which has been noted over the millennia and both fail to do so completely. There’s an awful lot of blind faith with one, along with prejudice and political hijacking, allowing atrocities to be committed against [...]

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Everyone knows that the moment the publish button is pressed, it goes out in that form on RSS, just as comments go out in their original form. However, I reserve the right to alter my post within the first hour because no matter how much one reads it in preview, it still doesn’t look the [...]

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The subject line says it all.  Pretty unprofessional of FIFA when they don’t have linesmen in place, cameras on the line and extra officials at each end to prevent this sort of thing.  It’s not just this game either, is it?  Travesty with Kaka, possibly with Harry Kewell and one or two others as well. [...]

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Pat Condell, with his radical atheism, is as irrational as anyone going, being stupid enough to do precisely what he accuses the multiculturalists of doing – equating all cultures as one – in his case, he equates all faiths, no matter what their scriptures actually say. No point tempering prejudice with facts, is there, Pat?

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How can it not go to a man’s head? Part 1: The World is in Good Hands Part 2: Sovereignty Part 3: Wheels within Wheels Part 4: The Venetians and the Concept of Oligarchy Part 5: Understanding is Half the Battle Part 6: The Resistance This is Part 6. ‘There’s always an opposition. There are [...]

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You’d think they’d wait for a lady.  Anyway, boys, Saturday evening’s should feed the craving a little more.  Girls, what would you like to see on this page?

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There’s some vague recollection in the back of the mind that I was going to do a post either last night or this morning but I must have dropped off and 2 o’clock this morning saw me thinking about it again and then it was morning, the bicycle’s rear tyre is either just down, punctured [...]

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