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The Rant Mistress: January 2015
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Zero tolerance of idiocy starts here. Wednesday, 28 January 2015. King Abdullah is dead, satire is on life support. I had to check and double-check and check again. The world is currently such a ridiculous place that sometimes even the sharpest among us can accidentally fall for a spoof article. So when I found out a US Army General was sponsoring an essay competition in honour of the recently departed King Abdullah, I did a double take. To people trying to live peacefully in your country. But the sad fa...
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The Rant Mistress: What would happen if Jeremy Corbyn becomes Labour leader?
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Zero tolerance of idiocy starts here. Wednesday, 22 July 2015. What would happen if Jeremy Corbyn becomes Labour leader? The Honourable Member for Islington North, Jeremy Corbyn, could end up as the leader of the Labour Party in September. If this happens, delight and horror will ring out around the country, possibly in equal measure. Do they go ahead and vote for a bill with a few tweaks or vote the whole thing down if they can't get all the amendments passed? The fragmentation of Labour and the resulti...
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The Rant Mistress: The hypocrisy of the royal paparazzi outrage
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Zero tolerance of idiocy starts here. Monday, 17 August 2015. The hypocrisy of the royal paparazzi outrage. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have done the very British equivalent of hanging their heads out the window and yelling at the top of their lungs: "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore! They wrote a strongly worded letter. And pay tax like the rest of us. It was nice of the Mail. A quick click on the Mail. They were all paparazzi shots. None of them were pictures the celebrity...
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The Rant Mistress: Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, a buffoon for each side of the pond
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Zero tolerance of idiocy starts here. Monday, 10 August 2015. Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, a buffoon for each side of the pond. Could Donald Trump and Boris Johnson be the same person? Evil clown twins separated at birth perhaps? Whatever the case, they are two sides of the same awful coin and if we end up with President Trump and Prime Minister Johnson in five years time, two nations will be ruled by two spiteful, fiscally irresponsible men who are not nearly as funny as they want you to believe. Aborti...
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The Rant Mistress: December 2014
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Zero tolerance of idiocy starts here. Monday, 15 December 2014. The gunman is dead. Two hostages are dead. The idiocy started up within minutes of the story breaking. It was horrible to watch it unfold from my sofa in London, the unthinkable happening in the city where I spent almost a decade misspending my twenties, the city where my father grew up, and where we spent school holidays with much-loved grandparents. Was the gunman a member of IS? Had he planted a bomb? Had he threatened to behead anyone?
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The Rant Mistress: June 2015
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Zero tolerance of idiocy starts here. Monday, 15 June 2015. I'd never heard of Ella Whelan before last week and I am quite sure she doesn't much care about my existence either. But, Christ on a cracker, has she missed the point of Plan UK's #JustATampon campaign. Or, what is probably more likely, is that she understands Plan UK's campaign perfectly well but she fancied being the voice of contrived contrarian lefty-bashing feminism that The Spectator. Clearly needs among its bloggers. And lack of menstrua...
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The Rant Mistress: The Queen is probably not a Nazi but I am still a republican...
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Zero tolerance of idiocy starts here. Sunday, 19 July 2015. The Queen is probably not a Nazi but I am still a republican. It was mission accomplished. Step 1: Stoke up outrage over photographs and a film from 1933 featuring the Queen Mother and Uncle Edward apparently teaching the Queen and Princess Margaret how to do a Nazi salute. Put said photo on the front page with a Nazi-pun headline. Step 3: Weather the storm of criticism about The Sun. Firstly, the Queen probably isn't a Nazi. She probably is...
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The Rant Mistress: August 2015
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Zero tolerance of idiocy starts here. Tuesday, 25 August 2015. The myth of strike-busting driverless tubes. As soon as #tubestrike starts trending on Twitter, the calls for the London Underground network to switch to driverless trains reach fever pitch. People carry on as if the network can switch to driverless trains in a matter of moments and that it will instantly end tube strikes. Every month, my bank account takes a direct hit thanks to Boris' love of raising public transport fares, but not even he ...
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The Rant Mistress: March 2015
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Zero tolerance of idiocy starts here. Monday, 30 March 2015. Lufthansa, Germanwings and the reality that the world can never be 100% safe. The world can never be 100% safe. This is not a thought many of us want to dwell on when we are trying to go to sleep and it is cold comfort to anyone who lost a loved one in last week's Germanwings plane crash. But it is the truth. The world can never be 100% safe. Of course, an investigation into the crash is important and prevention mechanisms will be put in place&...