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Baron von Mandelson: Ve Haf Achieved 80%!

Nuremberg, 1946.Baron von Mandelson, whose recent memoirs "The Third Reich Bastard", defended the National Socialist Party by saying it had managed most of it's aims during it's 13 year reign, before...

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And War is Declared...

Well, I was planning on doing a post on anarcho-capitalism in response to some of Obo's recent postings, but that'll have to wait. Ideological posts are nice and all, but fall by the wayside when one...

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Why Hire Guns N Roses if You Have A Curfew?

Axl Rose is a dick. This has been known for some time, his mothers gynecologist probably took a look up her chuff and noted the foetus took on a distinctly phallus-y shape prior to birth.This does not...

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Oldham and the 'Build it, and They Will Come' Mentality

So this weekend we waved farewell to Mumps Bridge, which - if I recall correctly - was the longest bridge of its kind in Europe when built. It also went over the roundabout - the one where two dual...

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More On Minimum Alcohol Pricing

Three posts in one day - you can tell it's the Bank Holiday can't you? Work should be a little less over the next few months, so I should be posting more. But then I've thought that before... Anyway,...

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How Difficult Can It Be To NOT Be A Cunt?

Had a very good day yesterday, a few drinks round Manchester culminating with watching Muse - the closest thing modern music has to Queen, and who can be like U2 without the twattishness - the only...

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Alien Invasions

On the BBC's news website, under the Most Popular Read stories is one going back to April, where Stephen Hawking warned against alien contact.Apparently if we meet aliens they may raid us for our...

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Fun with Parcel Deliveries

So I sold a computer on eBay, now the selling bit was somewhat painful - and I suspect the pain is not yet over - and I sorted out delivery.First the website threw up a heap of warning because I'm on a...

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Fair Play to ParcelForce

So yesterday I bitched about the parcel delivery service I was using, and I have to say today they impressed me - rang them up, they apologized and upgraded the service gratis.That is customer service....

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Time for the Police to Quit Their Jobs?

The always readable, if not necessarily agreeable, Inspector Gadget think society has a lot of blame on it's hands over the PC who assaulted Pamela Somerville.Now, it's hard not to see his point, but I...

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Oh the Irony

Not long back, the local police were unable to chase some motorbike thieves as they weren't wearing helmets. No, you didn't misread that - if you plan to steal the Crown Jewels just remember to escape...

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Strikeback?

Given the TUC are threatening a new Winter of Discontent, perhaps it's time to organize against that? Nothing too drastic, maybe prepare for Flashmobs to appear at strike sites, playing disorientating...

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Have the Coalition Taken Over Cuba?

Well, after Fidel Castro's recent admission that the great revolution may not have been that great, and the model he and his brother have ruthlessly implemented over the last half century may no longer...

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A Few Changes

There may be some faffing about over the next few weeks!I've created a dedicated email account for the blog, and thus created a new author (also Obsidian) and set it as the admin and removed my old...

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Another One Bites the Dust :(

Yet another blogger who inspired me start up appears to be sodding off, Obo seems he's going to pack in blogging for the foreseeable. The web needs the mix sweary rage and well constructed arguments,...

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Tackling Unemployment

One of the many bulls heading towards the coalition will be unemployment, the burning of the quangos and the cuts will cost jobs, and whilst in the long term that's a good thing it isn't a vote...

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LIverpool FC Court Case - It Keeps Getting Worse!

Just read the latest twitter update from Dan Roan, and well, looks like Hicks and Gillette have tossed a considerable cat amongst the pigeons.As it stands, if RBS win, the club gets sold to NESV, if...

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George Osborne

I've not gone through the Spending Review yet, but I'd still like to point out that he is, visually, the most punchable man in politics.He could make Ghandi look like Raoul Moat with saintly and...

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That Housing/Social Cleansing Pseudorage

I can't help but feel some of the 'oh noes, the unemployed only be given £400 a week to spend on housing' may involve some suspicion that in the pricey areas where the unemployed/unemployable are...

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The Things That Happen in Toilets

Last night I was rather fortunate there wasn't any sniffer dogs at the pub I was drinking in.Having a number 2, two lads entered the cubicle next to me and proceeded to deal in a bit of coke and pills...

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