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Prescription drug or Tolkien elf? Take the quiz! (What, you mean there isn’t a prescription tinnitus remedy called ‘Tinfang Warble’…?)

The American fake hate crimes epidemic.

The Game of Thrones theme played by a (very good) jazz band.

Millions of Americans are _not_ living on $2 a day.

Wrexham's new central defender has the best footballer name ever.

The Worldbuilding forums on Stack Exchange are a nice way for GMs to pass the time. (Thanks eledonecirrhosa.)

H.P. Lovecraft Lego.

This is how I imagine that beer tastes like.

The only way an independent Scotland could meet the EU's entry requirements would be to implement massive public expenditure cuts and / or tax rises. That might be fun to watch.

Who would have guessed that two men who campaigned for the right to bugger small boys would turn out to be paedophiles...? (This is the same organisation that had links with former Labour ministers Patricia Hewitt and Harriet Harman.)

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Why bad ideas refuse to die.

Whatever happened to William 'The Refrigerator' Perry?

No, the British did not "frantically" google what the E.U. is hours after voting to leave it.

New Robin of Sherwood audio drama with original cast. (We’re working our way through the boxed set in preparation!)

Gordon Murray has died. No, not the bloke who designed the car in the userpic, the guy who did Trumpton, Camberwick Green and Chigley.

How the **** did a television journalist as bad at her job as this one get a flipping CBE? This is a total car crash and she comes across as (at best) incompetent and at worst borderline deranged.

Mapping the growth of cities over the last 6,000 years.

An interview with Matthew 'Pandemic' Leacock.

Five steps universities could take to revive free speech on campus.

NASA's mission in the 1960s: Get America to the Moon. NASA's mission in the 2010s: Reach out to the muslim world. (Wait, what?)

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The Class of '92's Lost Genius

"Actually it was *Advanced* Dungeons and Dragons that I played”, clarifies Gove.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the President of Uganda.

14 tips for aspiring humanities academics.

To a leftard, "all lives matter" is racist.

Some idiot left the floodlights on all night before the Euro2016 final. Moth-based hilarity ensued. (By half-time, the moth that landed on Cristiana Ronaldo’s face had fifty different accounts on Twitter.)

Former Swansea and Liverpool manager Brendan Rogers is the new manager of Celtic. His first match in charge was arguably their worst ever result since they were founded in 1887. Well done Brendan.

What did Neanderthals sound like?

Of all the people leaving British public life in the last few weeks, will any be missed quite as much as Barry Scott?

Now why might the son of a famous fascist, himself famous for NAZI-themed orgies, want to bribe [make a generous campaign donation to] a politician who campaigns against freedom of the press...?

Big Chinese statue.

Is it just me, or is the new Cabinet very...blonde?

Every review of the new(ish) Ghostbusters film you will read this week.

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Philip May might be no SamCam, but he's more stylish than Dennis. (Except for those turn-ups.)