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Just what tickled my fancy in the last few days…

• Nuclear Reaction: Nuclear comedy update – Does anyone know how to pitch a sitcom?
• Belltoons – The Steve Bell Cartoons Website – Steve Bell has his own website. Hooray!
• Terry Callier – I’m a Drifter – Sit down for nine minutes, eh?
• Blood & Treasure: “he keeps his curtains closed…it may mean nothing” – But why not report him anyway?
• London Olympics: police powers to force spectators to remove non-sponsor items, enter houses, take posters – 'The Olympics are coming to London, so our civil liberties are going out the window…'
• GCHQ staff lost 35 laptop computers, report says – 'Pay attention, 007. Your new standard-issue laptop has a built in rocket launcher and condom dispenser. Now, where did I put it?'
• Samantha Cameron to show human side of her ‘Tory boy’ – As opposed, presumably, to the inhuman side to him we've had so far?
• Telegraph: Chief exorcist says Devil is in Vatican – The washing up didn't get done tonight. Can I just say that the Devil was supposed to do it?
• Unspeak » A miracle – David Aaronovitch thinks that the election in Iraq is a miracle
• BBC News – Gordon Brown labels Afghan visit criticisms ‘unfair’ – The British Prime Minister, ladies and gentleman: The Diary of Gordon Brown Aged 13 3/4.

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[EDIT: More like months, obviously.]

• David Miliband – The War in Afghanistan: How to End It – '…only politics will end the War in Afghanistan'. And to think it only took Miliband eight years and countless dead to think of it. The boy's a genius.
• BBC News – Large Hadron Collider to shut down for a year to address safety concerns – Lazy Hadron Collider more like. If the Large Hadron Collider were a person, the Daily Mail would be screaming for its benefits to be cut. Get up and do some work, scrounger!
• Kevin Maguire & Friends: David Cameron comes unstuck on Sky News as he does his hair in camera lens – Because Kevin Maguire wouldn't be caught dead tidying his hair for a TV appearance, would he? Is this what we're reduced to?
• Beau Bo D’Or: Tony Blair’s memoirs, The Journey – Woo! and Ew!
• Going Deaf For A Living: 6Music – 'After a week of watching Mr Thompson explaining his decision, I’m not sure I’m really any the wiser.'
• Blood & Treasure: Gordon Brown murders lonely pensioner’s only companion – 'Just a bit of clairvoyance about the headlines we’ll be seeing in a few years time if this nonsense ever gets into law.'
• Banditry » Dumbing down – 'If “Michael Gove gets his arse handed to him on a plate” is a tag you like the sound of, you’ll enjoy this clip from Parliament…'
• The Daily Mash – M&S ADVERT OFFENSIVE TO EVERYONE – 'He added: "Here's an idea for an advert – what do you fucking sell and what does it fucking cost?"'
• NME’s top 50 albums of the noughties revealed – I'm working through this list on Spotify. Apart from one or two exceptions, it is a thoroughly depressing exercise. God the noughties were shit.
• Topic Drift: What? – Esther Wilberforce-Packard is back.
• BBC NEWS | Politics | ID cards ‘good for going to bars’ – Once upon a time they were going to save us from terrorism. Now they've been reassigned to the heroic mission of helping babyfaced twenty-somethings get bladdered.
• Bloggerheads (UK) – The return of NAD-LIBS – 'NAD-LIBS work just like Mad-Libs, only they focus on the adventures of everyone's favourite Conservative MP, Nadine Dorries.'
• Between the Hammer and the Anvil: Britain Blogs Its Branez – Going Postal Edition – Good grief. Flying Rodent deserves some kind of prize for wading through all that slurry…
• More Tales of Nuclear Insanity – Nuclear Spaceships, Sarkozy’s Shower and Iraq’s Reactors

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• Perils bog down troops on Afghan frontline » Kuwait Times Website – This is by a friend of who's embedded with US Marines in Afghanistan
• Trident: Brown’s no peacenik (Dave’s Part) – 'This is a cost-free cheap stunt dressed up as a grab for the unilateralist moral highground that Labour vacated at least two decades ago.'
• Thomas Friedman on nuclear energy: wrong again – "It’s an odd kind of debating tactic to be sure, this juvenile machismo. Was anyone ever won over in an argument by being called a ‘wimp’?"
• The enemies of reason: The anti-immigration pissing competition – 'It's become an anti-immigration pissing competition in the middle-market papers to see who can muster the most outrage and fear, and today's effort in the Express is pretty typical…'
• British paratroopers re-enact Battle of Arnhem – Shouldn't these lot have been *enacting* the Battle of Helmand?
• John Pilger: For Britons, the party game is over – 'This is largely why the game of parliamentary politics is over for so many Britons, especially the young…'
• The design of Tony Blair’s potential new office – Seems very apt: a stonking great bollock…
• Giant farm dog saves baby pig’s bacon by adopting it as one of its own – Insert media/Tory Party metaphor here
• Warren Ellis: Thunderbirds will grow a generation of mad engineers – 'Put Thunderbirds back on, you bastards, and help grow a new generation of mad and frightening engineers.'
• The Yorkshire Ranter: ‘I have some problems with "10:10"’ – 'Nobody is saying: Let's do BETTER this time. Let's build something BIGGER and SHINY and DRAMATIC and FANTASTIC and OUTRAGEOUS that doesn't just meet a 10% target but SMASHES it.'
• Operation Motorman: the full story revealed – Getting the press we deserve…
• The Appendix – not so useless in the developing world | UN Dispatch – Why appendicitis rates are lower in the developing world
• BBC NEWS | Politics | We’re the progressives – Osborne – If only saying you were something made it so… I am GRAVARX, immortal ruler of the galaxy. See? No joy.
• High Court shields database state from blame • The Register – Wrong details on a government database ruin your life? Tony Blair's brother says tough shit…
• Greenpeace BlackPixel – What if you turned off a little square on your monitor?

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• Jacqui Smith: I’d never run a thing before the Home Office – Dear Jacqui, maybe you should have mentioned this *before* you took the job? Just saying. Lots of love, Just xxx
• Model schoolgirl and family ‘terrified’ as MPs fail to halt deportation to Nigeria where her father was murdered | Mail Online – When the bastards like the Daily Mail are highlighting the abuse of refugees you know something has gone badly wrong with our asylum system…
• Ministers renege on Dungavel child pledge – Another dispatch from the frontline of New Labour's fairness agenda
• Beau Bo D’Or » MPs’ Expenses Revisited – BBDO redoes the ending of his masterpiece, 'Financial Gain Plotting'.
• London mayor Boris Johnson dismisses £250,000 second salary as ‘chicken feed’ – Boris feels your pain.
• Energy white paper is set to shake up green industry – Memo to Ed Miliband: The West Wing is not real, dickhead.
• Blood & Treasure: call the cops – Making Afghanistan safe… for paedophile rapists
• Inject some sense into immunisation – Labourlist joins the counter-Enlightenment and goes anti-science.
• BBC NEWS | Ex-Pentagon chief McNamara dies – I own the documentary about him – 'Fog of War' – on DVD. Had it for years. It's still in the cellophane. There's a metaphor in there somewhere. Probably.
• Clubland bouncers given power to issue on-spot fines – What could possibly go wrong?
• Phone hacking allegations are irresponsible, says Wade – Irresponsible? Ooh, get her! She works for Rupert Murdoch, for pity's sake. I bet she thinks morality is Sherlock Holmes' arch enemy.
• Between the Hammer and the Anvil: In Which The Author Drinks Seven Beers Then Makes Strategic Proposals For Concluding The War In Afghanistan – 'Anybody else notice how the word Vietnam stopped cropping up in the press since President Obama got elected?'
• Surprise guest at the G8 – What the hell is Gordon Brown doing meeting with Mickey Rourke?
• Empire: Movie News – David Tennant Joins St Trinians II – Wow, that's the way to follow being Doctor Who. Way to go, David.
• BBC NEWS | Politics | Blair’s black eye at awards event – It wasn't me. Alas.

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• David Cameron in trouble for fake German accent Video – Yahoo! News UK – What a cock.
• BBC NEWS | Wales | Tories to end free prescriptions – Doesn't sound like a vote-winner to me.
• Alastair Campbell: not in my name! « Harpymarx – 'Again, when it comes to mental health, not in my my name Alastair Campbell!'
• ‘I feel sick with myself when he touches me’ – Guardian Weekly – Who needs the BNP? part 35,353…
• Spielberg "Cracks Story" For Indiana Jones 5 – Den of Geek – Haven't we had enough bad news this week?
• Questions for the BNP: part four | Pickled Politics – Social and legal impact of a BNP government (cont…)
• The Curmudgeon: The English Progressive Tradition – 'We mustn't change the voting – FPTP is such fun, And causes such hilarity concerning how we're run…'
• Carol Ann Duffy leaps into expenses row with first official poem as laureate – Finally a poet I could get into. I haven't enjoyed a poem since 'Why Patriots Are a Bit Nuts In the Head'.
• How 10p-a-minute government helplines cripple those most in need – New Labour: helping the most vulnerable once again. Did I tell you the Kinnocks have six state pensions between them?

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• Primeval dropped by ITV – At last, some good news.
• Stephen Grey on how the MoD is restricting access to conflict zones such as Afghanistan – "We have been lied to and we have been censored."
• Blogoir: Britblog Roundup 226: UK and Europe Edition – Chunky bloggy goodness…
• I’m a Labour sycophantic cock sucker – Don't take my word for it…
• Profile: Nick Griffin – All you need to know about Nick Griffin: he owns two rottweilers named Anne and Frank.
• Beau Bo D’Or » Hazel Blears pleads to keep seat – 'Back to images for a while. And back with a Manchester cliché too…'
• Between the Hammer and the Anvil: You’ll just have to trust me on this… – Farewell to the Encyclopedia Of Decency whose job is done. I think there should be a print version for posterity.
• UK Indymedia – Radioactive Tritium with your Tea? Yes, More Please say Sellafield Ltd – The radioactive Lake District as Alfred Wainwright might have seen it…
• D-squared Digest: Political campaign endorsement – DD names his favourite for Speaker of the House of Commons
• BNP Deputy Simon Darby suspended from City Hall | Tory Troll – What the BNP get up to when given a sniff of power…

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• Liberal Conspiracy » It’s not the immigrants’ fault that BNP voters are badly educated – 'Which schools in the UK do worst? No, it’s not the ones in areas crammed with ethnic minority kids.'
• Blears: My regrets – Manchester Evening News – Watch Hazel Blears beg. It's ace.
• The Stunning Work of Chris McVeigh – Amazing pictures
• Petition to: stop leading tributes to pointless celebrities and to spend more time running the country – We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to stop leading tributes to pointless celebrities and to spend more time running the country.
• BBC NEWS | Politics | Brown pays tribute to Ronaldo – Sod a bloody dog. SHUT UP AND GET ON WITH YOUR JOB YOU UTTERLY SHAMELESS OLD FRAUD…
• BBC NEWS | Politics | Harman pay gap data ‘misleading’ – Well done Harriet Harman. The issue of pay equality is now obscured by the fact that you're a bloody idiot…
• The water through which we swim (The Quiet Road) – 'Griffin should not be arrested for stating his views. But each time he does so in public, he should be challenged. And each public utterance of racism should be drowned out by a thousand voices in opposition.'
• Matt Wardman: Is the BNP Racist? – What do you reckon?
• Dying of cancer – but Home Office expels her parents – Big hearted New Labour strike again. Who needs the BNP?
• Hazel Blears – Communities and Local Government – 'It may be that it has moved location or has expired and been removed.' Sounds about right.
• Take CCTV out of the classroom – 'On a recent visit to a secondary school in Greater Manchester, I was informed that I would have to have my fingerprints taken if I wanted to buy a sandwich in the school canteen.'

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• Liberal Conspiracy » Trying to blame the left for racism – Go read.
• LENIN’S TOMB: Nick Griffin’s near ‘Kilroy’ moment – Look at his stupid fat Nazi face.
• Mark Steel: So this is New Labour’s legacy… – 'What a pathetic "rebellion". The Labour Party is in its worst state for a century and all it took for their leader to save himself was a sentence about finding a vision, and a promise he would "learn to listen". So after 10 years as Chancellor and two asPM he's going to start seeing and hearing. Next time he's challenged he'll promise to learn to crawl and eat solids.'
• Welcome To The North » A whole lot of nothing – Doncaster mayoral protest vote backfires spectacularly…
• Liberal Conspiracy » Cheers Tim, but we already know what Fascists are – 'This entire BNP/Far-Left meme is intended to serve two very distinct propaganda purposes, both of which we should be mindful of and oppose.'
• BNP poll win brings cash and staff – and legal challenges over racism – We should start a legal fund for 'non-indigenous' applicants…
• Simon Hoggart’s sketch: standing space only in room 14 – 'In the chamber, a solitary Labour backbencher was attending the debate on the health bill…'
• BBC NEWS: Brown prepares for crunch meeting – 'The only voices we hear are those laughing sycophantically at the leader's jokes.'
• LabourList.org: Labour must lead the new ‘coalition of the willing’ and take on the BNP – Because that's what New Labour needs right now – Iraq war metaphors
• The Curmudgeon: The Hand of History – 'It is no small achievement to have deported children and cancer patients, to have broken down doors at three in the morning, to have regarded ludicrous contortions about "Britishness" as a matter for national policy, and still to be so ineffectual, crooked and cowardly as to make the BNP seem the better option.'

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Just what tickled my fancy in the last few days…

• Stumbling and Mumbling: Burnham misses the point – 'If Burnham really wants to “understand” voters, he’d be better off trying to understand why six times as many people abstained as voted Labour. But this is to ask too much.'
• OH FOR CHRIST’S SAKE JUST DO IT, BRITAIN TELLS LABOUR – The Daily Mash – 'LABOUR was today told to just get on with it so we can all have a peaceful weekend without having to watch Nick Robinson jumping up and down like a child that's bursting for a piss.'
• The Curmudgeon: Nice New Chums – 'Daveybloke has just spent a cosy weekend in Warsaw with denizens of the Law and Justice Party, whose Polish initials form the gratifying acronym PiS.'
• ??????????? ???????? – Now wash your hands, Mr President. Vigorously.
• David Turner’s Procrastination Station: One For the Drunks Amongst You – Genius.
• RATS DESERT SHIT GOVERNMENT – The Daily Mash – On what was arguably one of Gordon Brown's better days as prime minister…
• U.S. Releases Secret List of Nuclear Sites Accidentally – NYTimes.com – They should have mailed it to the Marx Brothers…

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Just what tickled my fancy in the last few days…

• Backini: Twenty Five – Your groove of the day…
• BBC NEWS | Politics | Hewitt to step down at election – The former Health Secretary is leaving to spend more time with her corporate lobbying.
• Bloggerheads (UK) – Steve Uncles of the English Democrats is a cowardly scoundrel – …and unworthy of your vote
• The Daily Mash: BROWN TO APPOINT SUSAN BOYLE TSAR – A Downing Street spokesman said: "Do you think my CV should be justified or aligned left?…'
• Beau Bo D’Or » Nadine Dorries, The Parliament’s Princess, gives an exclusive interview – 'Please make allowances for our allowances'
• Though Cowards Flinch: Fuck you, New Labour – Seconded.

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Just what tickled my fancy in the last few days…

• Dust On The Stylus: Lunar Funk – Mr Penguin Pt.1 mp3 – Your groove for today…
• Blood & Treasure: an elegant offence – 'We actually have an MP who bought a book on expenses'
• The Daily Mash: SUSAN BOYLE GOING ACCORDING TO PLAN, SAYS COWELL – 'Experts insist that, if she does not go completely insane, Boyle could earn up to £5 million over the next three years for Simon Cowell.'
• The enemies of reason: Alastair Campbell gives mental health issues a bad name – An open letter to Mind…
• Liberal Conspiracy » Evening Standard’s shocking new ad – Meet the new Evening Standard – the same old scum
• Bloggerheads (UK) – Nadine Dorries censors Nadine Dorries – Save Nadine Dorries from Nadine Dorries… or next time, it might be you!
• #misogynysnotfunnymkthxbai « Too Much To Say For Myself – Hands up if you think these are funny…
• The Curmudgeon: The People’s Bloke – The People's Bloke is shallow blue…
• Iain Dale’s Diary: Hundreds Apply to be Conservative Candidates – The Tory Party: dickhead magnet
• Craig Murray – Andrew Dismore MP A Karimov Stooge – Andrew Dismore is the Chair of the Parliamentary Joint Commission on Human Rights. What's his connection with Uzbekistan?
• Bob Piper : A sound judge of character – Iain Fale in hypocrisy shock.

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• The Guardian: Bruising experience – Ladies and gentlemen, meet the Mind Champion of the Year. The Mind fucking boggles, frankly…
• Harry Hutton on Twitter – The mighty Hutton is twittering…
• David Turner’s Procrastination Station: #theBNParetwats – The Gift That Keeps on Giving – Dave Turner's fantastic BNP origami…
• The enemies of reason: Mail fail roundup: Dale fail and sexism fail – 'Just a quick update on recent Mail fails. I always like to keep up to date with how many thousands of pounds gets splurged on legal fees and payouts to people who've had rubbish written about them…'
• Harry’s Place » A trip down memory lane – Who once said 'The tales of Waffen SS courage and sacrifices are almost limitless'?
• Uponnothing » The Daily Mail dictionary gets into The Guardian – If you haven't seen the the Daily Mail dictionary go and treat yourself
• Bloggerheads (UK) – Nad-Libs are here!!! – Play the new and exciting game NAD-LIBS at home or at work
• Liberal Conspiracy » Preference voting is the way out of this expenses mess | creating a new liberal-left alliance – Great post from Donald Strachan
• ID cards: 10 things you might not know | 22 May 2009 | ComputerWeekly.com – '10 things from the document, "Identity Cards Act Secondary Legislation – An Impact Assessment", which might not be generally known'
• rhetorically speaking..: limited sympathy – Nadine Dorries' critique of a rapacious media too eager to print baseless accusations would also be slightly more convincing if she hadn't made full and happy use of that same tendency to push lies and misinformation during and after last year's abortion debate.

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Just what tickled my fancy in the last few days…

• Two main parties ‘collude’ to have bigger donations kept secret – Times Online – Good to see the political parties learning the lessons of the last few weeks…
• The Yorkshire Ranter: For constituency work – 'Constituency work is great, for a whole range of reasons. For a start, it is very hard to be secretly working for the Sun or the Saudis in chasing down Mrs Miggins's housing benefit claim.'
• bristling badger: vote against the bnp – 'Nick Griffin's march needs to end here.'
• Ben Bradshaw’s Transparency Smokescreen: Political Bollocks of the Day | The Wardman Wire – 'Unfortunately for Ben Bradshaw, this is no longer the age of “make a summary statement and move on in the hope that everyone will accept it and move on with you”.'
• Between the Hammer and the Anvil: A Buffet Of Bastards – I Can’t Believe I Hate The Whole Thing! – 'I'd be delighted, for instance, if MPs spent all of their time fiddling a few hundred for their duck ponds and none at all planning £6.5bn clusterfuck invasions of foreign countries.'

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Just what tickled my fancy in the last few days…

• Pickled Politics » Warmongers about? – Are there warmongers in your neighbourhood?
• Hagley Road To Ladywood: Don’t speak – 'I was trying to watch Polly Toybee's interview with Harriet Harman and within a minute I felt as if I'd downed a whole bottle of JD. Utterly impossible to follow.'
• Your groove for today… – …Bloodnok's Rock 'N' Roll Call
• The enemies of reason: This is what happens when you treat the BNP with kid gloves – Read it all please.
• Beau Bo D’Or » Hazel Blears – Greed is good – I have Gordon Brown’s full support – Exclusive footage of Blears' mea culpa
• The Curmudgeon: I Will Send Wild Beasts Among You – The Catholic Church: a whole different kind of scum

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• BNP leader Nick Griffin to attend Queen’s summer garden party – She's German and Prince Philip is Greek. What could possibly go wrong?
• Where’s Scully when you need her? (The Quiet Road) – 'One of the newest energy lobbyists claims he has the answer to climate change: spaceships.'
• Pickled Politics » Is Newsquest lying about taking BNP money? – 'A representative from Newsquest either lied to me or didn’t know the rules.'
• Barack Obama: From anti-war law professor to warmonger in 100 days – 'American liberalism has been swift to flex its imperial muscle and whistle up the Marines…'
• Amol Rajan – The Cameroons’ ignorance of how the poor live – Does Cameron understand poverty? Er… no.
• Sellafield robots stealing nuclear waste. Is this the end for humanity? – Is this a prelude to a robot uprising and a humans vs the machines war?

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Just what tickled my fancy in the last few days…

• Empire: Movie News – Sherlock Holmes Trailer Online – Holy crap. Western civilisation slips another notch…
• Nadine Dorries: ‘Trident is not a Weapon of Mass Destruction’ – Forward to 4.30 for the full idiocy.
• Liberal Conspiracy » Nadine Dorries: an enemy of science? – 'Dorries’ paranoia is understandable: I’m sure it must feel very unfair when even the evidence itself is biased against you.'
• Snowblog – ‘This is Gordon Brown. Now, about my expenses…’ – Gordon gets his priorities straight…
• Snowblog – Why were Tony Blair’s expenses shredded? – War criminal covers his tracks…
• Newsquest take advertising money from the BNP – Taking the fascist shilling…
• Daughter of Blair guru loses her bid for safe seat – Some good news at last. Local Labour party says decisive no to hereditary system of government. Up yours, Alastair Campbell.

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Just what tickled my fancy in the last few days…

• Blood & Treasure: it’s a cultural scandal too – 'MPs have claimed for Christmas decorations and bath plugs and their husbands have claimed for pornography, but no-one has put in a claim for a good book, or, for that matter, a bad one.'
• Beau Bo D’Or » MPs Expenses – MakePovertyHistory.gov.uk – You have to see this.
• ‘British pensioners’ on BNP election leaflet are actually Italian models – Telegraph – 'But far from depicting proud BNP supporters, the images are actually stock photos from online picture libraries that have been used by dozens of websites to promote everything from painkillers to caravans'
• House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 13 May 2009: Housing Benefit: Fraud – No Members of Parliament were harmed in the collation of these figures
• Pet Dog Costume Princess Leia Slave – Star Wars – This is wrong on so many levels.
• Robert Sharp » Lobby the UN for Aung San Suu Kyi – 'The Burma Campaign have a handy form that allows you to quickly lobby the UN Secretary General, asking him to send an envoy.'

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• QUESTION TIME AUDIENCE MARCHES ON LONDON – The Daily Mash – 'Sir Menzies Campbell, has been stripped naked and is being transported to London in a tiny cage made from bamboo.'
• ‘The Wrath of Khan’ as an opera « Why, That’s Delightful! – It's strangely moving…
• Warren Ellis » Bryan Talbot’s GRANDVILLE – This looks a bit good.
• Daniel Davies: A bonus scheme for MPs – 'The benefit of this scheme is that the only way for MPs to boost their income is to do well by doing good – by giving the public the kind of politics that they want.'
• Mike Power’s Website: Your prints are ready – Some of the images Obama doesn't want us to see. Dear God.
• Craig Murray – Grand Day Out – Hogg Fever – 'Who is up for a Grand Day Out at the Hogg estate in Lincolnshire? Let's launch toy yachts on the moat, swim in the pool, picnic on the lawns and look round the house.'
• Bloggerheads (UK) – BNP stealing images, short of photogenic supporters – 'Are the BNP really so short of genuine supporters that they have to use stock images?'
• Blood & Treasure: shall we put it crudely – Hazel has in her hand a piece of paper: 'I’m only surprised that it wasn’t one of those giant sized cardboard telethon cheques made out to ‘The Taxpayer’ in fluorescent marker pen.'
• Cynical Dragon: The BNP vs. The Gurkhas – In a spectacular grasp of the current public mood, Nick Griffin declares he doesn't like the Gurkhas. Or Rio Ferdinand, Theo Walcott and David James.
• How stupid are they/do they think we are? | Sim-O – You know, I really can't disagree with a single word of this

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Just what tickled my fancy today…

• Jarvis Cocker – Further Complications – The Guardian are streaming Jarvis' new album for a week before it's released. And it's really bloody good.
• House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 11 May 2009: Social Security Benefits: Fraud – No Members of Parliament were harmed during the collation of these figures.
• rhetorically speaking..: two for one – Nadine Dorries demonstrates that it's possible to play the victim and issue a nasty smear at the same time…
• Larry Elliot: It's not bankers Labour is watching, it's you – 'Once the party curbed the market to benefit the people – now the opposite is true'
• The Daily Mail Dictionary – Keep it with you at all times…
• Mr Eugenides: Quote of the Day – If you didn't already think Jesse 'sexual tyrannosaurus' Ventura was awesome, watch this…

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Just what tickled my fancy in the last few days…

• Stumbling and Mumbling: Expenses and rule fetishism – 'Several of you have expressed dissatisfaction with MPs’ argument that their expenses claims were “within the rules.” What’s not sufficiently appreciated is just how deeply inadequate this defence is.'
• Home Office mole 'dumped' by Tories after being sacked – If you sleep with the devil, you'll get screwed…
• In praise of benefit fraud (Dave's Part) – 'That is what makes the current DWP poster campaign – ‘Benefit cheats, we’re closing in’ – quite so stomach-turning. Now we find out that the slick Blairite politician running the show himself perpetrates behaviour absolutely analogous to benefit fraud in all respects save the provenance of the handout. Hypocrisy doesn’t even begin to describe it.'
• Daily Show presenter Jon Stewart tries to understand Jacqui Smith's logic for banning Michael Savage – 'But why Prince Harry wasn't banned for his "public inebriation" and "poor taste in costuming"? Stewart wondered.'
• G20 police 'used undercover men to incite crowds' – 'Liberal Democrat Tom Brake says he saw what he believed to be two plain-clothes police officers go through a police cordon after presenting their ID cards.'
• “Go Forward Not Back…Yes, That’s You I’m Talking To, Lerner…” « Back Towards The Locus – 'It’s an absurd world where a former Secretary of State has to be protected from a fourth grader.'
• Matthew Norman: How we'll all miss Jacqui Smith – Ouch.
• MessageSpace: the unprofessional network – As long as the money keeps rolling in, they'll let their 'clients' print any kind of lies and libel about you. Don't expect a right of reply either.

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Just what tickled my fancy in the last few days…

• BREAKING NEWS: Finland’s under-construction OL3 reactor ‘without a proper design that meets the basic principles of nuclear safety’ – In which we discover that after four years of construction on the world's biggest nuclear reactor, the designs for the safety systems have yet to be seen.
• AC Grayling: Precious liberty – 'As civil liberties come under ever greater pressure, it's time we exposed the old lie that says the innocent have nothing to fear'
• Warren Ellis: 'I plan to invest in anti-carnivorous robot security' – 'I’m not putting my dadpaste dispenser anywhere near a set of robot arms that might be neurally connected to some mangy chimp who’s become unhinged by the failure of his food-dispenser button and fancies going all Roddy McDowall in protest.'
• Ministers dropped Vioxx protest after lobbying from US drug firm – God bless the servants of the people…
• A GUIDE TO THE PEOPLE YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT IN LABOUR'S CIVIL WAR – The Daily Mash – 'If it looks like a junior salesman and sounds like a junior salesman, you call it what it is.'
• FactCheck: Brown's Gurkha boast – Channel 4 News – More from the Ministry of Making Shit Up…
• Blood & Treasure: if you gaze hard enough into your navel you can see your younger self looking back – 'Note to the 52 year old Stephen Fry: oh, stop it man.'
• Corporate Anti Hero – The lady doth protest too much? – 'Condoleezza Rice got asked some decent questions by a law student and didn't aquit herself well.'
• The Curmudgeon: Almost A Fairly Proud Day For Democracy – '…a sense of pleasant surprise that a narrow majority got it right this time is probably in order.'

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Just what tickled my fancy in the last few days…

• And Another Thing: Cleverness is overrated – 'What's even more worrying is that the clever people in government purporting to be able to get us out of it by a little quantitative easing here and the postponement of a few spending projects there know even less about how the real world works. I think they're all about to be found out.'
• The enemies of reason: Cough in my face Pedro – 'Twitter is supposedly the agent of misinformation about swine flu…Whereas the press, well they've been completely responsible, haven't they?'
• Blood & Treasure: chubby cheeks – Jamie interviews the mighty Steve Bell
• Blood & Treasure: relative timing – 'Hazel, meanwhile, makes herself scarce.'
• Mr Eugenides: Just fancy that! – Meet David Blunkett, astroturfer.
• Can the police and the media trust each other? – 'Why did it take six days and citizen journalism to shed light on Ian Tomlinson's death? Nick Davies examines the role of the Independent Police Complaints Commission and asks who the media can trust'
• UK agent leaves secret drugs info on bus – 'Scatterbrained' spook's error costs £100m • The Register – Whoops!
• The Curmudgeon: Saint George, Thou Shouldst Be Living At This Hour – 'Gordon also reiterated tactfully that "three-quarters of Islamic terror threats originate in the border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan"; in other words, between a country of which Britain is co-occupier in the name of democracy and universal human values, and a country to which Britain sells weapons in the name of regional peace and ethical profiteering.'
• FactCheck: 100,000 more Gurkhas? – Channel 4 News – What a surprise, the egregious Phil Woolas making shit up.
• Iraq Plunder « Ten Percent – Mission accomplished.

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Just what tickled my fancy today…

• Nuclear Reaction: We’d like to ask the Florida Power & Light Company a few questions – Where I catch another nuclear industry sockpuppet
• Liberal Conspiracy » Police: several levels of ‘culpability’ – 'The last week I’ve been pulling apart the Climate Camp Legal Team report and collating the data into a structured analysis over on my blog. As of today, this is what we know: the rioting police forces were systematically hiding their identities to avoid accountability. There was a coherent policy of abusing the statute book as if it were a catalogue of ways to harass specific individuals and groups. The TSG paramilitaries were directed to use the assault on Climate Camp as an opportunity to punish dissenters. And there was a comprehensive and systematic effort to suppress and destroy evidence of criminal activity by officers of the law.'
• Newsweek: Good Cop/Bad Cop Goes Green – 'On the environment, Greenpeace isn't always combative.'
• Revealed: The filthy rental home vacated by James Purnell… and the £1,600 cleaning bill paid by taxpayers – The filthy little bugger. Genuinely revolting.
• MoD guilty of repeated nuclear safety breaches – New Labour in miniature: 'a radioactive waste plant manager was replaced. It emerged he had no qualifications in radioactive waste management.'
• Marina Hyde: Nobody does money like New Labour, expense fiddling while Rome burns – '…it's the smallness of these people that you can't get away from – the knowledge that Darling will be much more comfortable next week defending his use of second-home allowances than he will his budget.'
• Blood & Treasure: frit – 'I’m becoming increasingly convinced that the Tories, at least those around Cameron, don’t actually want power any more. It scares them.'

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Just what tickled my fancy in the last few days…

• rhetorically speaking..: paul dacre: the daily mail was never against the MMR vaccine – 'To illustrate the scale of Dacre's distortion, here's a small selection of the stories which the Daily Mail saw fit to print on the subject of MMR…'
• YouTube – Rep. John Shimkus: God decides when the "earth will end" – It's all going to be ok. It says so in Genesis.
• Return of class war. Not. (Dave's Part) – 'How quickly the political right forgets that even during the hey-day of High Thatcherism, the top rate of income tax was 63%'
• Mark Thomas: Jack Straw held up his hands and police ripped up my fingerprints – 'Yesterday I had my fingerprints destroyed and Jack Straw told me the expanded DNA database was all his fault'
• Auto-Tune The News makes bad news feel so good « Why, That’s Delightful! – It's nicer when you sing the news…
• Back Towards The Locus: The Sideshow Bob Theory Of Political Corruption… – 'Now, finally, the politician is exposed. They are doomed, doomed to forever bring rake handles driving, smacking into their fleshy pink faces.'
• Nosemonkey’s EUtopia: St George’s Day – 'St George is, after all, one of the ultimate symbols of Britain’s pan-European ties.'
• Inspired Bicycles – Danny MacAskill – Prepare to be amazed.
• Hagley Road To Ladywood: The Crisis: forgotten victims – 'Millions of people are gagging to know: which political group is ready to offer immediate and factual help to the forgotten victims of the crisis?'

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