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February | 2016 | 500 Word World
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Snappy posts on random subjects. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Monthly Archives: February 2016. Trust the odds: why Brexit won’t happen. Bet 100 on the United Kingdom voting to stay in the EU and you’d stand to profit by 40 based on the odds offered by Paddy Power today (2/5). Wager the same on a Brexit vote and you could make 175, based on today’s odds (7/4) which prices in the Boris effect. The odds on both EU referendum outcomes have shortened slightly since yesterday. Crucially,...
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Conservative Party Reptile: January 2006
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I have often been called a Nazi, and, although it is unfair, I don't let it bother me. I don't let it bother me for one simple reason. No one has ever had a sexual fantasy about being tied to a bed and ravished by a liberal." PJ O'Rourke, Give War a Chance. Tuesday, January 31, 2006. Has an interesting post up on new polling figures that suggest that this advantage, lost by Major and Hague and only mildly recovered by Howard, may have been reversed by Cameron. Posted by Tim J at 5:33 pm.