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Cameron V. The Conservatives

Not entirely sure if this counts as "news" since the original story dates back as far as September although this article appeared in Today's Guardian:...
15:47 Wed 11th Nov 20156 answers, last by jim360 23:27 Wed 11th Nov 2015
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Listener Crossword No 4371 -- Our Announcer By Ploy

Well I suppose it's possible that I've gone a little wrong somewhere (made a couple of mistakes in counting in the across clues first time round, for instance), although I don't think that the...
19:26 Fri 06th Nov 201520 answers, last by petefoxes 13:12 Wed 11th Nov 2015
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Listener Crossword No 4368 -- The Name Of The Game By Harribobs

The preamble was enough for an early PDM, although I've not actually played the game properly before. Then it was a relatively speedy gridfill before I nervously attempted the endgame, dreading the...
16:28 Fri 16th Oct 201548 answers, last by IainGrace 17:28 Fri 23rd Oct 2015
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Good Morning Early Birds

Well it's possible that 4.30am is a bit early for a GMEB thread although to be fair it's an hour later here. Sat in the departure lounge at Marseille airport, having just finished a particularly...
03:34 Fri 24th Jul 201584 answers, last by jim360 06:51 Fri 24th Jul 2015
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Ev: Sunday Telegraph Enigmatic Variations 1183 -- Reinstate By Wiglaf

Glanced at the preamble, instantly saw what the theme was going to be (lucky guess perhaps?), and thought I'd have a go at the grid fill. Didn't get all the extra letters but fairly sure I can see the...
18:31 Sun 12th Jul 201510 answers, last by DocHH 12:26 Wed 15th Jul 2015
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Idiot Steps Down

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33090022 Good....
08:01 Thu 11th Jun 2015167 answers, last by Peter Pedant 17:57 Fri 12th Jun 2015
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Sepp Blatter

As part of the ongoing protest against the FIFA corruption scandal and Sepp Blatter's incompetent leadership, it emerged today that Scotland are threatening that if the aging leader is elected for a...
09:02 Fri 29th May 20159 answers, last by tonyav 18:00 Fri 29th May 2015
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Not Quite A Retraction

Dennis Skinner pulled out a cracker earlier, apparently. http://tinyurl.com/n9fdeem...
22:01 Tue 19th May 201514 answers, last by Peter Pedant 07:21 Wed 20th May 2015
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David Miliband Turns On His Brother

Well, obviously. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-32697212 I wouldn't want to be at the Miliband's family Christmas this year....
17:33 Mon 11th May 201526 answers, last by Hypognosis 02:26 Wed 13th May 2015
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Iain Duncan Smith Back In The Dwp

Great. Just great. Just what the country needs. Words cannot express my joy at this news. P.S. that was sarcasm....
23:04 Sun 10th May 201516 answers, last by chaptazbru2 14:42 Mon 11th May 2015
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General Election -- 15 Seats To Watch

I thought I'd try my hand at being a political pundit and offer up a few seats whose results I think are particularly important in the overall result, at least based on the predictions from the...
10:20 Thu 07th May 201531 answers, last by Hopkirk 18:46 Fri 08th May 2015
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How To Make 54% = 100%

I suppose, since I've barely stopped talking about this sort of thing for the last couple of months or so, I ought to share the following picture: http://tinyurl.com/mh4a77b While the SNP have made...
14:01 Thu 30th Apr 20154 answers, last by jim360 14:43 Thu 30th Apr 2015
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Don't Know The Answer During An Exam? Ask On Ab...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-32531820...
13:31 Thu 30th Apr 201517 answers, last by jim360 22:04 Thu 30th Apr 2015
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Ev: Sunday Telegraph Enigmatic Variations 1172 -- Time By Augeas

A bit of false advertising on Augeas' part as he suggested this might appeal to me owing to my physics background. Disappointment over, I appreciated the sneaky clue order that once cracked allowed...
13:07 Sun 26th Apr 201511 answers, last by devadolly 08:35 Tue 28th Apr 2015
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Snp Up Against It

A Dire warning today by Lord Ashcroft that the SNP could sweep the board in the election, winning 50+/59 seats -- and even all of them!...
18:50 Sat 18th Apr 20156 answers, last by jim360 14:38 Mon 20th Apr 2015
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Journalism Fail

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/arsenal/11537367/Jurgen-Klopp-quits-Borussia-Dortmund-live.html...
10:50 Thu 16th Apr 20151 answer, last by wolf63 15:30 Thu 16th Apr 2015
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A Variation On The "when Is Cheryl's Birthday?" Problem

I was just given this nasty-sounding variation on the birthday problem that's been bugging the internet for the last few days. It goes like this: Person A chooses a pair of numbers between and...
16:54 Wed 15th Apr 201543 answers, last by Hypognosis 21:37 Mon 20th Apr 2015
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Fao Mikey

Mikey -- about a week back we were having this argument over whether 7 + 7 / 7 + 7 * 7 - 7 was 50 or 56. I've realised that you were right after all, and it's 56. My apologies to you and others....
08:32 Wed 01st Apr 201511 answers, last by Hypognosis 21:42 Sun 24th Apr 2016
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Only Connect

Got Beethoven's and Brahms' violin concerti mixed up! What is the world coming to?! Victoria, how [i]could[i] you?!...
21:04 Mon 16th Mar 201534 answers, last by mikey4444 15:52 Wed 18th Mar 2015
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After Eighteen Months In Edinburgh...

I finally made it up Arthur's Seat.
22:17 Sun 15th Mar 201511 answers, last by Gavmacp 12:43 Mon 16th Mar 2015

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