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• Lammy Dodgers

  From the Daily Mail Critics round on MP David Lammy as Comic Relief suffers £8MILLION drop in Red Nose Day donations amid fears public was put off by his... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2019 DEBATE

• Highway Code Question(s)

  

  If you are turning left, you indicate left. If you are pulling in from a slip road, you indicate right. Q1. Where is the tipping point between them - how small... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2019 DEBATE

• Strange Thought - Maybe Jeremy Corbyn Was Right All Along (on This Particular...

  I've pretty much ignored Labour's wafflings about Brexit because they are woefully unclear and contradictory, all they do is trot out some gibberish and repeat... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2019 DEBATE

• Nobody Move Or the Estate Agents Get Hurt!

  From the BBC: Some 77% of members asked by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) said that the Brexit impasse was holding back activity. Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2019 DEBATE

• Nobody Move Or Lower Ranked NHS Managers Will Throw More Sickies!

  From The Daily Mirror: Almost 11,000 doctors, nurses and support staff were off work daily with stress, anxiety and ­depression, the latest NHS Digital... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2019 DEBATE

• France Not Entirely Daft - Shock

  from Ecommerce News Europe: The French Minister of Finance told newspaper Le Parisien that the proposed tax is aimed at companies with worldwide digital... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2019 DEBATE

• Cattle News - Sign the Petition

  Via @AmbushPredator, from The Daily Mail: For decades, a farming family’s herd of long-horned highland cattle have been a Peak District tourist attraction. Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2019 DEBATE

• Nobody Move, Or the Expat Pensioners Get Hurt!

  Spotted by Physiocrat on gov.uk: Will UK nationals continue to get their State Pension uprated under no deal? The UK leaving the EU will not affect entitlement... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2019 DEBATE

• Nobody Move Or the Global Economy Gets Hurt!

  From City AM: Global growth predictions were slashed today as a major economic body warned that a no-deal Brexit would see Britain return to recession... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2019 DEBATE

• Nobody Move Or the Cancer Patients Get Hurt!

  From the BBC: Hospitals are likely to experience delays to cancer testing and treatment regardless of the result of next week's Brexit vote, BBC Newsnight has... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2019 DEBATE

• Film Review: How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

  One of the problems with Dreamworks animated movies is how inconsistent they've been on quality, which is why I missed the first How To Train Your Dragon (HTTYD... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2019 DEBATE

• "List of Sovereign States in Europe by GDP (nominal) Per Capita 2017"

  From Wiki. 1. Luxembourg 2. Switzerland 3. Norway 4. Ireland 5. Iceland 6. Denmark 7. Sweden 8. Netherlands 9. Austria 10. Finland Can you spot the ones which... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2019 DEBATE

• The Funny Things That the Warmenists Say...

  From The Royal Meteorological Society (in 2011): If Earth’s atmosphere contained no GHGs, all the IR radiation would be propagated directly to space and would b... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2019 DEBATE

• Or, They Could Just Buy "male" Razors...

  From the BBC: A Lib Dem MP wants to stop items such as razors or deodorants from being priced differently based on whether they are marketed at men or women. Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2019 DEBATE

• Daily Mail on Top Form

  From The Daily Mail: Yousef Makki, 17, was stabbed to death on Saturday night in Greater Manchester... Yousef is thought to have received a scholarship to atten... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2019 DEBATE

• Because Northeners Can't Do Maths?

  From the BBC: A £1.6bn government fund has been launched to boost less well-off towns in England after Brexit. The pot is split into £1bn, divided in... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2019 DEBATE

• More Exquisite Remainer Logic.

  From The Independent: The English are blindly driving Northern Ireland to conflict – the fear is that they are too stupid to care. Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2019 DEBATE

• "Norway and Switzerland Have to Accept EU Laws..."

  I voted Leave and was vaguely hoping that the UK government would do the obvious thing and just rejoin EFTA (and stay in the EEA), which would give us most of... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2019 DEBATE

• David Lammy is Absolutely Spot on (for Once)

  David Lammy is usually a source of lightweight PC-buffoonery, but this time he's absolutely spot on. From the BBC: Stacey Dooley has challenged MP David Lammy... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2019 DEBATE

• Trump and L'il Kim Show How It's Done.

  From the BBC: A summit between Donald Trump and the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ended without agreement after the US refused North Korean demands for... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2019 DEBATE