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NonOxCol

Cheers Raf, say what you really think. Aren't you supposed to be a 'leftie' or something ? https://twitter.com/helenlewis/status/562976278740213760" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; I've really been trying to avoid his output because of that sort of comment. Where on earth do...

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Good afternoon.

Snap PMQs Verdict: A brave try from Miliband, who raised a good issue, but he was effectively monstered by Cameron.

I honestly don't know why any of you give AS the benefit of the doubt any more.

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Great thread everyone! Only just found it. I did this for another site in 2012 and just dug up the results. Don't think I'd change anything, though (as with everyone) there are an awful lot of honourable mentions. In particular I would say that 'Parade', 'Lovesexy' and 'Sign O The Times' would all b...

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Only just discovered this, very interesting. I'm going to do this on a strict 'one film per director or trilogy' basis. Warning: I was born in 1972. I am absolute hardcore Spielberg/Lucas generation. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial : Other people can say what they like, I simply cannot be objective about...

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StephenDolan wrote:Harman still pushing this. Good.

Tory peer's anti-Labour tweets have 'cast a stain' on Ofcom, says Harriet Harman

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Good grief. All the things I'm depressed about already, and there are even more I wasn't aware of.

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This Newsnight is gobsmackingly biased shite. Absolutely crap - and providing nothing more to the slanging match. No good information - no good analysis. Woodcock not good for Labour ... O'Brien constantly interrupting him ... Wollaston saying same old stuff. O'Brien has gone right down in my estim...

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This Newsnight is gobsmackingly biased shite. Absolutely crap - and providing nothing more to the slanging match. No good information - no good analysis. Woodcock not good for Labour ... O'Brien constantly interrupting him ... Wollaston saying same old stuff. O'Brien has gone right down in my estim...

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Tubby Isaacs wrote:
NonOxCol wrote:This Newsnight is gobsmackingly biased shite.
You mean Ian Katz isn't a hard leftist who would give his Tory bosses the run around?

The Stratton package was truly shocking, but this Woodcock guy really shouldn't be out in public. Whose idea was it to put him on TV?

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Duplicate post.

I blame Beta.

NonOxCol

We now have, er, the chair of Progress up against Sarah Wollaston.

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This Newsnight is gobsmackingly biased shite.

NonOxCol

Jesus Christ. BBC UKIP http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/the-bbc-appears-to-have-made-a-channel-just-for-ukip-voters--gJPqj3t9og It’s worse than BBC Ukip - it’s what a Guardian reading BBC exec thinks people in Ukip want.. It’s essentially the Top Gear channel. That is a spoof, yes? I mean we h...

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Sorry to hear that NonOxCol. The Graun really has abandoned its roots, its readers and its purpose. Rubbisher has destroyed an institution. Right on cue: https://twitter.com/cantlin/status/560731158116577280" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; This is one of the patronising sta...

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Sorry to hear that NonOxCol. The Graun really has abandoned its roots, its readers and its purpose. Rubbisher has destroyed an institution. Right on cue: https://twitter.com/cantlin/status/560731158116577280" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; This is one of the patronising sta...

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Morning. Said I wouldn't mention this again, but... I'm joining RobertSnozers in his boycott of that site. Spent half an hour this morning looking at the feedback thread. In just the last two pages, there are at least three more totally new joiners, all web developers , saying how great the new site...

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Last word on this (promise), as there is a serious point behind it all, and Peter Griffin has done a better job than most of nailing it: http://www.theguardian.com/help/insideguardian/2015/jan/28/welcome-to-the-new-guardian-website#comment-46782222" onclick="window.open(this.href);return f...

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Three "Guardian Picks" on the feedback thread:

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Two staffers and a crawler. 7 recommends between them.

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I don't know what, if anything, this says about Britain in 2015. But there's a dreadful woman on the telly repeatedly using "left-wing" as an insult and she's the bookies' favourite to win Celebrity B** B******. Katie Hopkins? From what I've read, she's come across as one of the more 'bal...

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I don't know what, if anything, this says about Britain in 2015. But there's a dreadful woman on the telly repeatedly using "left-wing" as an insult and she's the bookies' favourite to win Celebrity B** B******.

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Hi all Been absent a few days - got fed up of what passes for political discussion in the UK at the moment (apart from here of course!) https://uk.isidewith.com/political-quiz" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; I got 81% Labour and 7% Tory - very glad about that. Managed to ge...

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And because I love you all and would hate for you to miss it:

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Rumours that the OED are redefining "chutzpah", "gall" and "hypocrite" as yet unconfirmed.

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Did anyone see tonight's Party Political Broadcast by the Liberal Democrats?

Unfunniest comedy on TV since The Royal Bodyguard.

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Appreciate that not many of us will have either the time or the inclination for this, but seeing as AK mentioned it on page 1: http://www.theguardian.com/help/insideguardian/2015/jan/28/welcome-to-the-new-guardian-website" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; This is the full beta...

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FULL BETA HAS ARRIVED - and this time round looks like it is here to stay :cry: :toss: :sick: I love the way the headings on the home page can find room for both "sport" and "football" but not "politics". It is a masterpiece of web functionality that can only have been...

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Here's the full interview with Mike Buchanan:

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This guy - is he a stunt to make Farage sound enlightened?

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..and wrt Stuart Broad, I've always wanted to like him (Old boy at Oakham School, along with Lewis Moody (RU World Cup winner)) but he makes it really difficult - excusing the tweet by saying 'I was just trying to say I couldn't believe how BIG the world is' - he's nearly 30 years old FFS...and he ...

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Good afternoon. You may or may not know that, since late 2013, most of my online activity has centred on cricket rather than politics. This hasn't exactly been a positive move. But today, it allows me to share with you this quite special tweet: https://twitter.com/StuartBroad8/status/560049120308502...

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Guardian Chilcot piece. ' Although Ed Miliband was not in parliament at the time of the invasion, and has said he would have opposed the war, Labour probably has least to gain from the reopening of the debate about the basis of the invasion and its continuing consequences, including the rise of Isl...

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Pregnant and sanctioned just in time for christmas… Sanctioned and frozen to death….The latest news from Ashton Under Lyne Jobcentre. http://thepoorsideoflife.wordpress.com/2014/12/11/pregnant-and-sanctioned-just-in-time-for-christmas-sanctioned-and-frozen-to-death-the-latest-news-from-ashton-under...

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Morning. Apologies in advance for linking the work of this man, who is without doubt the least entertaining writer I have come across in nearly 20 years as a Guardian reader. But can anyone tell me the point of the reference to "Ed Militant" in the middle? Anyone? Anyone at all? Especially...

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Haven't seen it myself, but it seems people are comparing David Dimbleby's chairmanship of Question Time to this:

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BBC Question Time has, for one night only, been renamed "The Egos Have Landed" to reflect the presence of Messrs Farage (again) and Brand (again) on the panel. Can I recommend, for the preservation of your own sanities, that people here give it the swerve; BBC 4 have the second part of th...

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I also thought TLHOCJ was superb, and look forward to tomorrow's conclusion.

Wasn't the best argument for self-regulation of the press (and police) I've ever seen.

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US Navy pushing the limits of political correctness. http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/10/us-navy-test-laser-weapon-persian-gulf?commentpage=1 So the US Navy have a warship called USS Ponce. Presumably at every formal occasion where the crews of the USS Ponce and any RN ship meet is full ...

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Good afternoon.

Trivial I know, but the Guardian have just introduced Beta across the entire Sport site. And of course there's one of those lovely "fait accompli/try it on a different browser/put a bag on your head and do a handstand" feedback threads.

Bucket of cold sick, again.

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Morning. My entry for Simon Mayo's "Three Word Thursday" on Radio 2: Fucking Alan Titchmarsh. Who is, and what with? Apologies ladies and gentlemen, I had no wish to poison your minds with such images. I should have said: Alan Fucking Titchmarsh and shown you this: http://www.mirror.co.uk...

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Morning.
My entry for Simon Mayo's "Three Word Thursday" on Radio 2:
Fucking Alan Titchmarsh.

NonOxCol

Good afternoon. Yesterday night at around 10pm I caught Tom Bradby's report on Cameron's immigration speech. Bradby twice used the following phrase: "Those who prefer evidence-based analysis". The second time he used it as a counterpoint to "the responses on the street suggest that em...

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Just logged in to say that today is probably not going to provide the best evidence for believing the UK population can resist capitalist propaganda.

Black Friday: of all the things we've taken from the US, this has to be the stinking rotten nadir in every conceivable way.

NonOxCol

Morning all. I'd just like to gently, because it's Sunday and still before noon, challenge that 2009 reference. I'd date it to well before that, perhaps 2005. It seems to have been a continuum from at least the beginning of GBs time as PM. it would also have taken longer for the Tories to have put ...

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I've not yet read the article but a lot of what you say about it makes perfect sense. I've felt since 2010 that we were being 'shock doctrined' (and I think Naomi Klein's book should be required reading for anyone who wants to know why the world is how it is today). This notion only backs that up. ...

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There is no question in my mind now that these people are fascists. They have all the characteristics. I was watching a film last night called Bunker in which Anthony Hopkins played Hitler in his last days - although it's not accurate, I was struck anew by the way an entire nation was bamboozled in...

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Morning. Possibly the most depressed I've been since the Health and Social Care Act was passed. The Thornberry business just looks from here like Roy Scheider throwing some chum out of the boat. The shark isn't remotely satisfied and you're still more likely to get eaten than not. Are Labour still h...

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I understand the front page of today's Times was inserted on last night's thread.

Well, here's what's inside...

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@ NonOxCol Hello, there! I've always meant to mention this - when other posters abbreviate your name (NOC) it always throws me momentarily as I process it as "No Overall Control". Right. That's that dealt with. As you were . . . Hope all's well with you. Edited to remove both extraneous e...

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For the sake of your blood pressure, I hope no-one's watching Pointless Celebrities.

Kelvin MacKenzie, Nick Ferrari, Stanley Johnson and Julia Hartley-Brewer. On a tea time family quiz show.

The BBC in 2014.

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Goodness me that Guardian editorial on the Lib Dems really is a frightful, contemptible pile of absolute steaming horseshit. I hadn't read a Guardian editorial for several months before today. Have they really been this bad? Any future cultural historians who want to understand how Britain's media b...

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Hello and good day to you all. It's the same person with an abbreviated username, not an imposter. Can I just say I've always really loathed this pop star, and now I have an excuse: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/ed-sheeran-dedicates-song-to-david-cameron-9766575.html&quo...

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