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Monthly Archives: August 2015
SHEDNOTES 150: Pollution in the data streams
Every newspaper has corners which fill up by some mysterious process which almost everyone has forgotten the details of – grain and fatstock prices; pool league rankings; surf reports; church service programmes; proceedings of the Royal and Antediluvian Order of … Continue reading
Posted in notes from the shed
Tagged benfield’s blog, chris elliott, guardian weather, liz mccabe
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SHEDNOTES 149: How Tonga Grows Em Bigga Fasta
By emptying all jars and pockets, The Shed has bought a small stake in the Rugby World Cup in the form of tickets for Tonga v. Namibia at Exeter. The Shed’s reporting team therefore noted Daniel Schofield’s profile of the … Continue reading
SHEDNOTES 146: Going Wild For A Swim
One of The Shed’s old hacks has offered the following for the West Dartmoor Notes section of this blog … Thirty-odd years ago, maybe 40, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents scored a few headlines one summer with … Continue reading
SHEDNOTES 145: Labour’s losers keep on missing the point
An episode of Pointless reminded The Shed of a great Johnny Cash song, Twenty Five Minutes To Go, about a condemned man waiting on the hangman’s trap, which would make a good soundtrack for the countdown to the Labour leadership … Continue reading
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Tagged andy burnham, bullingdon boys, calais, Fabian Society, immigration policy, James Frith, james morris, Jessica Asato, Labour candidates open letter, labour leadership, Never Again, Patrick Wintour, Polly Billington, Rowenna Davis, Sally Keeble, twenty five minutes to go youtube, welfare policy, Will Straw
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SHEDNOTES 148: A good clogging for Andy from up north
The Shed enjoyed Michael Deacon taking the mickey out of Andy Burnham’s campaign for the Labour leadership in Teleg 29.8.15. Deacon started with Burnham’s claim to be “not a Westminster politician” and riffed off that … Just who is this … Continue reading →