May 5, 2014

From the wrong club website: The action kicks off on Thursday June 5 at the Select Security Stadium where the Sky Sports cameras will be on hand to capture a repeat of the 1937 Challenge Cup final, Widnes Vikings v Keighley Cougars (8.00pm). It is, too; somehow I’d completely missed that it’s a repeat of…

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Someone tweeted Ernest Shackleton’s legendary ad for Antarctic explorers. Manliest thing in the history of manly manliness. Also the Britishest. pic.twitter.com/dtyrEEWCAN — Lucy Wainwright (@Whoozley) May 4, 2014 Cool. Not to say chilly. But it immediately made me want to post the same text to a variety of different job sites. Monster. Taskrabbit. Craigslist. You…

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Bizarre question in a Labour Party survey: we’d like to know how you feel about our values as a nation. Please complete this sentence: “Above all, I believe Britain should be…” The options were: Compassionate Diverse Fair Pioneering Respectful What are they up to? Presumably “Respectful” is meant to identify Hazel Blears fans, the sort…

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Tony Blair: He called on leaders to consider the “absurdity” of spending billions of dollars on security against an ideology which is being “advocated” in the schools and institutions of “countries with whom we have intimate security and defence relationships”. “Some of those countries of course wish to escape from the grip of this ideology,…

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