Last Monday the International Panel on Planet-Threatening Demi-Gods presented the most peer-reviewed scientific paper in all human history, giving unarguable evidence that Earth will be destroyed by a malevolent super-being called Malignos at teatime (GMT) next Tuesday. I was on tour, sitting in Belfast airport departure lounge, when I read about it in the Guardian.…
George Osborne chewed his pencil nervously. It tasted funny. He worried where it had been. But his fellow Bullingdon boy Nat Rothschild had assured him he had burned all those pencils. Maybe this one had escaped the inferno. It was Wednesday evening. Our conscience-stricken chancellor required sustenance. Lashed by the twin madames of ethics and…
During Margaret Thatcher’s funeral on Wednesday, the Right Reverend Richard Chartres, the bishop of London, boasted to all and sundry of how the late prime minister had once physically restrained him when he lunged at some pulverised ducks’ breasts. He had intended to cram into his mouth. Fatty duck pâté, it transpired, was a forbidden…
Caroline Raphael, BBC Radio 4’s commissioning editor for comedy, recently confessed to difficulty in finding unashamedly right-wing comedians to balance the left-wingers on her shows. I know about stand-up only, not about comedy in general, but in my experience there aren’t really any right-wing stand-up comedians who would fit Raphael’s brief. You can’t programme something…
Baroness Margaret Thatcher died on Monday. Or so they say. Whenever an important figure passes away, the usual marijuana-muddled conspiracy quacks are quick to suggest they faked their own death. But the demise of Baroness Margaret Thatcher has been accepted without question, even by friends of mine who love Nordic jazz fusion, live on houseboats,…
Over the Easter weekend, I myself was deservedly one of a party of important contemporary artists invited by Danny Boyle to a research project buried beneath the Chipping Norton triangle. Our task was to use our visionary gifts to respond creatively to a government-initiated search not for the “God particle”, but for God himself. Donning…
Esme Folley, Actress, cellist, Twitter
Esme Folley, Actress, cellist, Twitter
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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Lents, redandwhitekop.com
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Robert Gavin, Twitter
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Peter Fears, Twitter
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Guest, Dontstartmeoff.com
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Lenny Darksphere, Twitter
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Lancethrustworthy, Youtube
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Nicetime, Guardian.co.uk
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General Lurko 36, Guardian.co.uk
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Cyberbloke, Twitter
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Contrapuntal, Twitter
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Z-factor, Twitter.
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Deepbass, Guardian.co.uk
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Pudabaya, Twitter
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Maninabananasuit, Guardian.co.uk
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Jamespearse, Twitter
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Wharto15, Twitter
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Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
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Karen Laidlaw, Edfringe. com.
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Horatio Melvin, Twitter
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Cabluigi, Guardian.co.uk
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Anonymous, don'tstartmeoff.com
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Emilyistrendy, Youtube
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Joycey, readytogo.net
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Spanner, dontstartmeoff.com
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Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
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Pudabaya, beexcellenttoeachother.com
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Tweeterkiryakou, Twitter
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Carla, St Albans, Dailymail.co.uk
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Tres Ryan, Twitter
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Syhr, breakbeat.co.uk
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Neva2busy, dontstartmeoff.com
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Aaron, comedy.co.uk
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Gmanthedemon, bbc.co.uk
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Al Murray, Comedian
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Chez, Chortle.com
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Shane, Beverley, Dailymail.co.uk
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Len Firewood, Twitter
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Dave Wilson, Chortle.com
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Microcuts 22, Twitter
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Sweeping Curves, Twitter
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Mpf1947, Youtube
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Lucinda Locketts, Twitter
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Joskins, Leeds Music Forum
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Jackmumf, Twitter
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Pirate Crocodile, Twitter
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A D Ward, Twitter
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Rudeness, Youtube
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Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
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Stokeylitfest, Twitter
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FBC, finalgear.com
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Alex Quarmby, Edfringe.com
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Birmingham Sunday Mercury
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Kozzy06, Youtube
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Mearecate, Youtube
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Richard Herring, Comedian
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Zombie Hamster, Twitter
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Dahoum, Guardian.co.uk
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Gwaites, Digitalspy
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Gabrielle, Chortle.com
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Idrie, Youtube
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Pnethor, pne-online.com
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Henry Howard Fun, Twitter
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Mini-x2, readytogo.net
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Slothy Matt, Twitter
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Peter Ould, Youtube
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Borathigh5, Youtube
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Visualiser1, Twitter
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Danazawa, Youtube
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Aiden Hearn, Twitter
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Yukio Mishima, dontstartmeoff.com
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Stuart, Chortle
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Whoiscuriousgeorge, Youtube
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Alwyn, Digiguide.tv
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Someoneyoudon'tknow, Chortle.com
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Foxfoxton, Youtube
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Anonymous, The Northfield Patriot
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Iain, eatenbymissionaries
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Peter Ould, Twitter
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Anamatronix, Youtube
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Funday’schild, youtube.
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Meanstreetelite, Peoplesrepublicofcork
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98rosjon, Twitter
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Guest1001, Youtube
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Ishamayura Byrd, Twitter
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Joe, Independent.co.uk
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Carcrazychica, Youtube
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Rubyshoes, Twitter
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Brendon, Vauxhallownersnetwork.co.uk
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Liam Travitt, Twitter
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Fairy Pingu, Twitter
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Tweeter Kyriakou, Twitter
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Secretdeveloper, Youtube
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Keilloh, Twitter
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Anon, westhamonline.com
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Cojones2, Guardian.co.uk
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Frankie Boyle, Comedian
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Mrdavisn01, Twitter
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12dgdgdgdgdgdg, Youtube
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Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph
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Neolab, Guardian.co.uk
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Genghis McKahn, Guardian.co.uk
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NevW47479, UKTV.co.uk
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Shit Crit, Twitter
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Bosco239, youtube
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Hiewy, Youtube
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DVDhth's grandparents, Twitter
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Etienne, Chortle.com
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Clampdown59, Twitter.
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Leach Juice, Twitter
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Fowkes81, Twitter
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Rowing Rob, Guardian.co.uk
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Anon, dontstartmeoff.com
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GRTak, finalgear.com
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Dick Socrates, Twitter
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Bobby Bhoy, Twitter
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Brighton Argus
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Coxy, Dontstartmeoff.com
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Sidsings000, Youtube
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Meninblack, Twitter
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Johnny Kitkat, dontstartmeoff.com
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World Without End, Twitter
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John Robins, Comedian
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Tin Frog, Twitter
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Tokyofist, Youtube
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Sam Rooney, Youtube