January 2012
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Cameron's Cuts
The public sector jobs that each key EU country has said it is going to cut by 2014.
Austria: 3000 Germany: 10000 Ireland: 24750 France: 97500 UK: 330000
Source: FutureProof
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Max and the Magic Marker
For anyone with an ipad, a lovely game: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/max-magic-marker-for-ipad/id413704441?mt=8
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“How dare anyone in the UK make fun of a democratically-elected leader when you...”
– Doug Stanhope defends George W Bush
December 2011
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November 2011
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'Facts' from Kim Jong Il's official biography
He created the world and controls the weather.
He doesn’t need to urinate or defecate.
He stays young by injecting himself with the blood of virgins.
The first time he ever played golf, he got 11 holes in one.
When he eats rice, all the grains have to be exactly the same size and colour.
He intends to solve hunger in North Korea by breeding giant rabbits.
October 2011
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September 2011
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Party like it's 1699 →
Amish Online Dating: seriously…
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Another Innocent Man Executed? →
For those interested in what appears to be the state-sanctioned murder of Troy Davis, I’d recommend this article on Cameron Todd Willingham. Investigative journalism at its best.
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“We are not suited to the long perspectives
Open at each instant of our lives....”
– Philip Larkin, Reference Back
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“I’ve been to lots of exotic places: Melbourne and Montreal and Sydney and...”
– Tommy Tiernan
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“There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as...”
– Gore Vidal
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August 2011
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June 2011
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“Even the best female novelists make me think of someone lounging on a sofa with...”
– Nabokov’s elegant sexism
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Edward Albee on America
We’re not a communal nation… [we’re] giving but not sharing, outgoing but not friendly.
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The Caretaker, Von Restorff Effect. When you die,...
May 2011
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“The mere making of a work of art is itself a political act because it reminds...”
– W.H.Auden
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Stewart Lee on ITV
ITV is like a failed state, isn’t it? Run by pirates and criminals. It’s the Somalia of broadcasting.
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“It might be instructive to ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi...”
– Noam Chomsky on Osama Bin Laden’s assassination
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Robert Wyatt, Pigs... (In There) →
Shamefully I’ve only just heard this for the first time. Recorded in 1986. Unique.
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Stewart Lee on the IRA →
Osama’s death and the ensuing security scare reminded me of this…
April 2011
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A song called 'Knees' by Peter and Kerry. →
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Natural History smackdown →
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'Midsummer, Tobago' by Derek Walcott
Broad sun-stoned beaches. White heat. A green river. A bridge, scorched yellow palms from the summer-sleeping house drowsing through August. Days I have held, days I have lost, days that outgrow, like daughters, my harbouring arms.
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“They can print statistics and count populations in hundreds of thousands, but to...”
– Graham Greene
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“Charlie Sheen has done so much cocaine, it’s given him a strange glow. In fact,...”
– Frank Skinner
March 2011
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“The worst kind of prejudice, in my view, is prejudice against me. For some...”
– Peter Cook (E.L.Wisty)
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Dark Dark Dark: Daydreaming →
I don’t normally like middle-class folk bands who pose naked on their album covers. But this is extraordinary.
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Flann O'Brien site: with extracts from the great... →
From the Myles na gCopaleen column:
A few weeks ago I was interrupted when about to give the public my long-awaited description of my own face. Several anxious readers have written in asking when they might expect it. My answer is that they may expect it to-day. Let us take the features one by one and then stand back, as one stands back from a majestic Titian or Van Gogh, and view the whole...
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Favourite poems 4. Robert Burns, 'John Anderson'
John Anderson, my jo, John, When we were first acquent; Your locks were like the raven, Your bonie brow was brent; brent= smooth But now your brow is bald, John, Your locks are like the snow; But blessings on your frosty pow, pow= hair John Anderson, my jo. John Anderson, my jo, John, We clamb the hill thegither; thegither= together And mony a cantie day, John, ...
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