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The Custodian: Shop-o-Mart to expose the nation’s chocolists

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Shop-o-Mart to expose the nation’s chocolists. Shop-o-Mart has announced a major new initiative to help identify and ‘support’ the nation’s hidden chocoholics. 8221; whenever laxatives were purchased, along with the usual standard questions (is the medicine for yourself, have you used it before, are you taking other medication, are you planning to kill yourself, etc). If a customer answered yes, or appeared not to know, or looked confused or baffled, the pharmacist would simply direct them to the Bus...

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The Custodian: The shame of a closet collectivist

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The shame of a closet collectivist. Private schools prevent social mixing" — £125,000-a-year headmaster. Private school headmasters who stir up resentment and promote left wing ideology should resign, the headmaster of Wallingford College has said. Dr Selby Anson, recipient of a £125,000-a-year remuneration package, claimed that people like him were fuelling left wing ideology by putting out propaganda which undermined other private schools. We need to develop the social and spiritual side of our pupils&...

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The Custodian: Disaster socialism

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Left-wing politicians have appealed to voters by promising them more, or better, public services. Some electors realise — though many do not — that increased government spending comes at the cost of higher taxes even if this fact isn't advertised. As a result, Western democracies have experienced fairly regular oscillations between governments of the left, and governments with some free-market sympathies. Minor shifts or moderate improvements — these are forms of appeasement, designed to satisfy pe...

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The Custodian: Mediocracy is bad for our mental health

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Mediocracy is bad for our mental health. The growth in mediocracy over the past 20 years is taking a heavy toll on our wellbeing. By far the most significant consequence of 'mediocracy' (state interventionism, dumbing down, aggressification, ideological brainwashing, etc.) has been a startling increase in the incidence of so-called 'mental illness' in both children and adults since the 1970s. It is notable that citizens of countries severely. High levels of misery are probably necessary to mediocracy, be...

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The Custodian: Fightin' evil lenders, to the max

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Fightin' evil lenders, to the max. The Reverend Dr. Ash Walliams, leader of the Church of Sociology, was kind enough to grant an interview to The Custodian. Your Grace, you’re concerned about young people getting into debt they can't afford. We are, like totally getting into this culture where bitchin levels of borrowing are the norm. That would be awesome. Do you think this is needed particularly at the moment? This credit crunch is, like, totally gross. What about the firms who sell credit to people?

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The Custodian: A teacher for every school

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A teacher for every school. POSSEs need educational support. Secondary schools run by local police constabularies should have learning support officers stationed permanently on site to give pupils elementary lessons in reading and writing, ministers said yesterday. Schools minister Lord Apollo said policemasters who already have teachers in their schools as part of a pilot scheme are 'warmly supportive' of the move. He told the annual conference of the teaching union Aphasia yesterday that ministers ...

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The Custodian: Reid in terror attack on liberties

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Reid in terror attack on liberties. The economist and philosopher Damian Tomaso, author of two books on libertarian issues, made clear today he is prepared to declare a "state of philosophical emergency" to suspend intellectual support for the legitimacy of the UK government, if the Law Lords overturn — as Home Secretary Dr John Reid has demanded — a series of judgments that have. Weakened the anti-terrorist control order regime. Partially reaffirmed British civil liberties. Dr Reid is threatening to "op...

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RISE LIKE LIONS: RUBBISH REPORT

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A political and cultural blog covering the North East of England. Wednesday, 11 July 2007. The BBC’s news website has highlighted two London Borough’s which have the worst recycling rates, these being Tower Hamlets and Newham. Naturally, South Tyneside’s position was of interest, as were other local Councils, and a quick check of the stats revealed the following for 2005/2006, the most upto date figures I could find;. FIGURES OUT OF 393 AUTHORITIES. NORTHUMBERLAND – 125 –. DURHAM COUNTY – 188 -. If this ...

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Cartoons | Tim Marshall - The What and The Why

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Hamish De Bretton Gordon. Mosul: The End Of The Beginning. Trump / Clinton: WTF? Things We Lost In The Mire – 51. The Battle For Mosul And Chemical Warfare. Talking Point: Is Anti-Russian Policy Hypocritical? Beyond the ‘Model T’ Web. As well as providing cartoon for. The What and The Why. Also blogs at The Spine. And you can follow him on Twitter @TheSpine. Hamish De Bretton Gordon.