January 2012
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No, this isn't from The Daily Mash or The Onion
Ed Miliband has attacked David Cameron for failing to stop the sale of cut-price Chocolate Oranges - something the PM complained about in opposition. In 2006, Mr Cameron criticised WH Smith for discounting chocolate rather than fruit despite the UK’s obesity crisis. But the Labour leader told The House magazine the situation had not changed. “If he can’t sort out the...
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“I want to denounce in the strongest possible manner the entire process that led...”
– Kader Arif on ACTA
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“Denis Thatcher’s ghost is her only real match, and occasionally he plays a...”
– An excerpt from the review of The Iron Lady by The Quietus
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“Given the Tories’ policies are actually killing people right now, and...”
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“In 1990, tens of thousands of people were happily getting off their boxes to...”
– Ditto. In my defence I was also a big fan of the KLF at the time… and 8, not 13.
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“Tickets are most frequently issued by school police for “disruption of...”
– I would never have survived school like this
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“Londoners have been quick to embrace Boris Bikes. Informally named after the...”
– Boris No Longer Mayor, According To Lonely Planet
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“Whichever way one looks at it, privatisation is a giant asset-stripping process....”
– Gwyneth Dunwoody, Labour MP, on rail privatisation in February 1995
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December 2011
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“…The entire side of the cat, the side with the lump just fucking RUPTURES,...”
– This is why you don’t declaw cats Don’t worry, the cat was ok in the end.
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“As an anarchist, I believe that power should be given to the people whose lives...”
–  Alan Moore attacks Frank Miller in comic book war of words Moore condemns Miller’s work as misogynistic, homophobic and misguided after Sin City creator’s attack on Occupy movement
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November 2011
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“I think I haven’t understood properly what “trolling” on the internet meant…...”
– A colleague, in an e-mail addressed to me, just now
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