Free Assange: China should nominate Wikileaks founder for Nobel Prize

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“FREE JULIAN ASSANGE!” declaims my mate Gauche on Facebook, to which the reply, surely, can only be, “… with every packet of condoms.” “Try our new Assange range. So featherweight, you’ll never know it’s on.” With US politicians calling for Wikileaks whistleblowing founder Julian Assange to be abducted and assassinated and not necessarily in that […]

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China should offer Julian Assange political asylum: Wikileaks dissident persecution

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So the powers that be are circling like whitetip sharks at a Sharm el-Sheikh eat-all-u-can scuba feast, and are about to round up Julian Assange (thought to be hiding out in South East England — my bet’s Brighton) on an extraordinary charge of refusing to wear a condom during consensual sex. There must be many

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China should offer Julian Assange political asylum: Wikileaks dissident persecution

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So the powers that be are circling like whitetip sharks at a Sharm el-Sheikh eat-all-u-can scuba feast, and are about to round up Julian Assange (thought to be hiding out in South East England — my bet’s Brighton) on an extraordinary charge of refusing to wear a condom during consensual sex. There must be many

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Sarah Palin done by John Mendelssohn

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Tee, hee! A brilliant paeon/peony/pain/pee-on of praise for next US president Sarah Palin by my mate John Mendlessohn. “How a long-time political progressive saw the light and came to embrace common-sense conservatism of the sort promulgated by Gov. Sarah Palin.” Madam Miaow says … visit Anna Chen’s website here: Home Anna’s food blog here: http://annacheneats.blogspot.com/

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Ferdinand Mount’s ‘Orwell on the Oligarchs’ lecture: how George would have loved the Tory cuts

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Well, I saw this coming a mile off. I knew that Ferdinand Mount was a novelist, Sunday Times columnist, Thatcher-era Tory grandee and former TLS editor when I heard him deliver his talk on ‘Orwell and the Oligarchs’ last night at the annual George Orwell Memorial Lecture hosted by Birkbeck. However, I had no idea

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