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7 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Oct 2015

Brexit may not mean Brexit at all: UK.gov loses Article 50 lawsuit

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"And this was advice. Therefore the advice is that only 37.5% of people want to leave."

37.5% want to leave indeed.

But only 34.7 want to stay.

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Botnet-powered ballot stuffing suspected in 2nd referendum petition

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Re: Referendum - stupid idea

"It takes people with experience, knowledge and good judgement to analyse issues."

Unfortunately, we have politicians instead, as most of the people who fit your description are working in the (rather more lucrative) private sector.

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Flying Spaghetti Monster is not God, rules mortal judge

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In the soup for sure.

The judge may laugh now, but once he shuffles off this mortal coil he will surely be sentenced to spend all eternity in gumbo.

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Enraged Brits demand Donald Trump UK ban

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Meh

Straw democracy.

The petition is pointless. At least until after the election.

There is no way that Mr Cameron is going to bar the doors of this country to a man whose backside he may soon have to bury his nose in (in the eventuality of Trump managing somehow tro win the election).

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Donald Trump wants Bill Gates to 'close the Internet', Jeff Bezos to pay tax

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Trollface

Impressive.

Godwin's Law achieved in three. not bad, even for this site.

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Cops use terror powers to lift BBC man's laptop after ISIS interview

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Big Brother

Give me liberty or...

How does that popular misquotation go?

Those who are willing to sacrifice a little freedom for a little security will deserve neither and lose both.

As much as I hate journalists in general, or at least those who think that half of the trash that appears in the tabloids somehow qualifies as news, I am grudgingly forced to recognise that a free press is indeed necessary in any country that aspires to call itself free and democratic.

If journalists are incriminated for not ratting out their sources then all that will happen is that nobody with anything worth saying will talk to the press, and what we'll get served to us is whatever the Ministry of Truth decides is a true and accurate account of world events.

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