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The column which thinks Christmas should be not seen and not heard READER: I will ignore that shallow humbuggery, I’m looking forward to it. Are you having Christmas dinner at home this year? MYSELF: Christmas dinner in? Are you mad?…
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SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WORKHOUSE AND PENSIONS Has our cling-on MP Amber Rudd no sense of shame? This Dickensian government appears determined to inflict its Oliver Twist values on a society already reeling from the sucker punch of austerity, but…
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The column which avoids metaphor because when you are trying to sell someone a rudderless ship, it’s best not to mention the leaky lifeboats READER: Black Friday! I’m so excited! MYSELF: I imagine you are. What kind of bargain are…
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POSH & BREX We recently attended a meeting of the Eurosceptic Institute for Mumbo Jumbo, Baloney & Contemptible Bunkum, where we asked chief mannikin Jacob Rees-Mogg, what possible reason there might be for a man of his social position to…
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The column that maintains that any resemblance between it and real life is purely coincidental READER: Isn’t it great that the new Doctor Who is a woman? MYSELF: Yes, in the same way I think it is great that Popeye’s…
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Opinionated jabs for the pointy-fingered By Lobbytroll PEER PRESSURE On our letters page you can read, if you have the time, a long impassioned plea to “talk up the pier” from Lord (sic) Brett McLean. In it he implores us…
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By Bird Guano The column which frequently looks at gift horses, but not necessarily in the mouth MYSELF: Have you ever had PPI? READER: As a matter of fact I have. A particularly bad strain as it happens, which tends…
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FARAGE BALLOON Speaking for those he promised to represent by regularly attending the European Parliament, Nigel Farage, privately educated banker, absentee UkIP MEP for South East England and mouthpiece of the working man, has made a surprise appearance in Brussels…
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MONEY DON’T TALK IT SCREAMS The family run enterprise of Saudi Arabia, super-wealthy patron of unscrupulous and sociopathic arms dealers, worldwide exporter of black gold and Wahhabi terrorism, has finally succumbed to the mother of all hubris. As the petrol-driven…
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The column whose terms apply but not its conditions MYSELF: My first is in peanuts but not in custard… READER: Oh I love these brain teasers. MYSELF: I know. My second isin Spain but not in READER: Not in algebra?…