Maclaren buggies in the wars A finger of fudge may be just enough to give your kid the digit they’re missing after helping Mummy fold away their pushchair. Is it me or are the middle classes getting madder? The Telegraph asks if parents are overreacting because Maclaren buggies are amputating their children’s fingers. One of […]
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Holy ai caramba! First Gordon Brown and now China. My late communist Dad must be spinning at the news that UK Chinese ambassador Madam Fu Ying has declared herself a fan of The X Factor. Never mind China and human rights, what about Simon Cowell’s crimes against humanity? According to The Independent report: ‘She praised twins
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A comic writes … As Britain goes the same way as the Roman Empire, things fall apart and the cultural superstructure collapses into the economic base, the Big Question is, what happened to our sense of humour? Or as Ian Burrell asks today in his insightful piece in the Independent, Q: When is a joke not
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Which movie are we in? The final act of The Omen? Or maybe Goodfellas? After heroically stalling the advance of Tony Blair by rejecting the Lisbon Treaty, which would (among other horrors) create the role of President of the United States of Europe, the Irish were told to vote again until the required result was
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