The Iron Lady’s Downfall

Margaret Thatcher faces the final curtain.
Some notes for those who may be unsure of some of the references. On Margaret Thatcher’s thriftiness and the similarity between gonks and Michael Hesseltine.
Tuesday, Feb 7th 2012

Margaret Thatcher faces the final curtain.
Some notes for those who may be unsure of some of the references. On Margaret Thatcher’s thriftiness and the similarity between gonks and Michael Hesseltine.

Preliminary Report for the European Initiative on the Standardization of Emotional Response Measurement(EUI #32549/P)
In an effort to further facilitate administrative alignment among the various members of the European Union, the Bureau of European Policy Advisers has initiated a process of defining and determining the full range of emotional and psychic attitudes exhibited by citizens of [...]

British prime minister David Cameron recently received a lot of unjustified and unnecessary criticism from malevolent commentators in the media for inviting representatives from a number of arms manufacturers and dealers to accompany him on his tour of Middle Eastern countries. This criticism was the result of biased, selective and partial coverage of the prime [...]

Genealogy is brilliant. Some people think that it is not brilliant, but they are wrong. It is.
What genealogy is, is finding out who your real parents are. And then who their real parents are, or were, if they are dead now, and then who your real parents’ real parents’ [...]

Bring on the Empty Forces
The British government recently announced that its latest aircraft carrier would not be carrying any aircraft, a decision that we here at Modern Pacifist magazine applaud as a courageous act that defies the global forces of death and destruction. We should now like to see the government take [...]

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An extract from The Sceptics Bible. Part 518 of 666.
IN the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the word was God.
2 Even though Wittgenstein has proved the impossibility of a private language.
3 All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made.

Just because the economy is on its death bed doesn’t mean you have to forgo any part of your beauty routine. After all, when you look good, you feel good, and now more than ever the whole world is looking for reasons to feel good. And what’s more, scientists have proven [...]

FIFA, the international governing body of association football, today released its bi-annual update detailing changes to the nicknames officially assigned to the national football teams of its member states. While for the great majority of countries there was no need to introduce new sobriquets, for a significant majority it was felt that there was sufficient [...]

In rather feeble attempts to demonstrate their erudition and unsuccessfully prove that they have a sense of humour, members of the medical profession have in recent years been generating articles for publication in which they diagnose the purported symptoms exhibited by the protagonists of well-known works of fiction. Thus, in the American Journal of Diseases [...]