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Own goal / Football doesn’t need a regulator
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Sour Krauts / Tomorrow belongs to the AfD
Staggering stupidity / Well done to the Channel 4 halfwits
Generation Bland / The inevitable rise of 'Palentine's Day'
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Sour Krauts / Tomorrow belongs to the AfD
Staggering stupidity / Well done to the Channel 4 halfwits
Generation Bland / The inevitable rise of 'Palentine's Day'
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All too often, the Prime Minister recently lamented, Britain’s public servants are happy languishing in the ‘tepid bath of managed decline’. There is, however, one area in which Britain’s public servants are dynamic, innovative and world–leading: at spaffing gazillions of pounds of taxpayers’ money on wasteful projects which are variously inane, insane and indefensible. The
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All too often, the Prime Minister recently lamented, Britain’s public servants are happy languishing in the ‘tepid bath of managed decline’. There is, however, one area in which Britain’s public servants are dynamic, innovative and world–leading: at spaffing gazillions of pounds of taxpayers’ money on wasteful projects which are variously inane, insane and indefensible. The
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‘‘Oh, that’s by Ed Miliband.’’
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‘‘Oh, just sitting back and letting algorithms do all the stock trading.’’
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‘‘It appeared in our account the minute the school started charging VAT on fees.’’
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