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Fun Online Polls: What's the worst kind of monger and how you choose petrol 27 Aug 2013 | 02:23 am
The responses to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: What's the worst kind of monger? Fish - 6% Iron - 3% Rumour - 13% War - 37% I think we know the answer to that one - 41% The poll refer...
Now, who could they be talking about... 25 Aug 2013 | 01:10 pm
From Mises "To argue that Africa Great Britain will be transformed into a manufacturing hub, one would need to argue that the average African’s Britains time preference will decline in order to relea...
Friday night gear change 23 Aug 2013 | 09:45 pm
From the regular playlist at my wife's favourite radio station when she's doing housework. Up a full tone at 2 mins 9 secs:
"Income tax hits 'ordinary workers in south-east'" 23 Aug 2013 | 01:21 pm
Ben Weenen on top form at The Institute of Directors: The tax needs armies of bureaucrats to administer and destabilises the job market, says IoD Director General Simon Walker. The so-called income ...
Reader's Letter Of The Day 23 Aug 2013 | 12:52 pm
From yesterday's FT: Sir, Might it not ameliorate the antagonism towards fracking if the government were to agree that part of the proceeds would go to setting up a new sovereign wealth fund? Michae...
"Shocking moment angry bull runs at cars on busy Spanish motorway" 23 Aug 2013 | 12:51 pm
From The Daily Mail: During celebrations in the Spanish town of Iriépal in Guadalajara, a bull escaped from its cage and bolted down the motorway. Frightened drivers climbed out of their cars when t...
While you were sleeping with the enemy 22 Aug 2013 | 02:08 am
From Wiki and Wiki: Lucy Moderatz (Sandra Bullock) is a lonely token collector on the Chicago Transit Authority who lives in a beautiful home by the beach on Cape Cod with her husband, a handsome com...
Bush, Blair: Sorry, did we say "Iraq"? We meant "Syria". 21 Aug 2013 | 10:41 pm
From the BBC: Former US President George W Bush has spoken out to justify his 2003 invasion of Iraq, admitting that his poor grasp of written Arabic in intelligence reports led him to confuse the two...
Indian Bicycle Marketing 21 Aug 2013 | 10:32 pm
From yesterday's Evening Standard: Shadow housing minister Jack Dromey warned: "Unless the Government invests in building the homes our capital city badly needs,(1) rapidly rising property prices wil...
"UK mulls ban on car key fobs which resemble mobile phones" 21 Aug 2013 | 10:30 pm
From the BBC: UK officials are considering banning the sale of large car key fobs designed to resemble small mobile phones. A government spokesman told the BBC that it was discussing the issue with ...
