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Who wants to read about teh worst book ever?
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Oh, you do?
WELL, here we go.
The book is the fantastically titled The Corpse Now Arriving by Margaret Hinxman. The front cover features an obviously bleached plastic laboratory skellington clutching a British Rail ticket from [xXx] to London Victori[…]

Reasons to vote Official Monster Raving Loony
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Reasons to vote Official Monster Raving Loony
Knigel Knapp (Knight of the Unknown) is standing in Hackney North. If elected he will:
Ban the bendy bus (they’re too big and too bendy)
Install Stocks instead of Asbos
The rest of it is silly, but […]

Pollwatch – 2.40pm
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Danny Baker has voted, along with his daughter and, I presume, his partner.
An old woman wanted to check that her vote would be valid as she’d put a tick, not a cross. I assured her that as long as it was clear who she’d voted for, it&#82[…]

Fats the years are past
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Also known as The Edukators. A German film about youthful political activism which skirts many of its issues without ever really grasping them. Beyond a anti-capitalist rhetoric it is difficult to work out the ideology of the leads, and their situati[…]

Lying To Pollsters
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The first thing some people say when I tell them I am in market research is “Oh, opinion polls?”. Well, no, the bulk of MR has nothing to do with them, but it doesn’t stop the wider industry getting the collective jitters when an el[…]

as others see us
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“Despite living there for the better part of four years, there are many things I can?t explain about Britain: the instinct to queue, the bad plumbing, and how a culture with such bland native food can love curry so much. What I can explain are […]

wow!
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there are six polls being tracked by the bbc website: Communicate, ICM, MORI, NOP, Populus and YouGov
as of lunchtime, all but Communicate have updated to TODAY as final day of polling (data gathered last three days). YouGov, which polls interweb us[…]

stick with the beasts we got plz #6: monster raving loony
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i passed a comical young fellow, all hat and badges and incipient bumfluff not-yet-a-moustache, standing in angel on the way to work – he looked quite stressed and lonely, so i guess the polls look bad for his party this year
yes yes the rich […]

Attention Floating Voters!
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OK tonight is the second ever POPTIMISM and here’s what you need to know (some of this you already know)
– It’s at the Polar Bear on Lisle Street Soho between 7 and 2 tonight. Cheap drinks all night.
– It’s an election s[…]

WHEN THE DEMANDS OF GENRE MARKETING SHOW ON THE PAGE:
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When you have a remarkably bogstandard piece of adventure fantasy (Mothership agane) where the whole thing seems neatly wrapped up in time for the last twenty pages. And then, all of a sudden, there is a revelation, a character goes missing and the q[…]

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