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Multi-Doctor special for Doctor Who's 50th anniversary next year? (And both Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy have terrible taste in footwear…)

Was the Venus transit too cloudy (or just too early) for you? View this NASA high-res video instead.

Newspaper editors: don't include a massive supplement telling your readers how great a country is on the same day you run a story highlighting the same country's torture of its own citizens.

The Isles of Scilly. Population c.2,100. By far the smallest unitary council in England. Remuneration of council chief executive: £110,000.

The UK joined the EEC at around the same time that the Commonwealth was becoming more important economically and Western Europe less important. Was this bad timing, or do we just have a bad effect on our neighbours?

True story: Boring, Oregon to twin with Dull, Perthshire.

Bob Welch is dead. That's the second Fleetwood Mac guitarist this year!

Irish fans's banner at Euro 2012: "Angela Merkel thinks we're at work!"

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The Relian Robin Half-Track, complete with .50 calibre heavy machine gun.

The Ministry of Defence has more accountants than the British Army has officers.

More on Bob Welch (with video). (Nice guitar solo from the late Bob Weston at 4m24s)

Items to cut from central government expenditure number 4,389: lending money to hostile countries who aren't likely to pay it back.

The Guardian. Not even remotely anti-semitic. Oh no.

The real UK citizenship test. I scored 10 out of 10.

We are far more likely to encounter an ancient alien race than one with similar levels of technology to our own.

What if Dr Seuss had done a Star Wars book?

The biggest solar flare ever observed by modern instruments was in March this year.

The proposed General Anti-Abuse / Anti-Avoidance Rule (GAAR) will just make things less certain for taxpayers and will make the UK a less attractive place to do business.

nVidia's new top of the range gaming graphics card costs £880.

Comparing Orwell's dystopian vision to Huxley's. Seems to me Huxley was closer to being correct.

London Olympics "to come in £476m under budget". This is that strange parallel universe known as public sector accounting, where something that was originally budgeted to cost £2.4billion but which will actually cost £8.8billion is “under budget”…

You think Louise Mensch has it bad? At least she only got trolled by one Saruman-lookalike left-wing nutjob.

Very funny spoof review of Game of Thrones.