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Match Of The Day

Match of the Duds 

Match of the Day (MOTD), that weekly festival of English Premiership football proceeded this weekend without its anker man (‘w’ omitted by our sensitivity reader) Gary Lineker, and he was joined in his absence by two of the Linekerati: Alan Shearer and Ian Wright. Unsurprisingly the viewing figures have skyrocketed, and the BBC might get

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Roald Dahl

The Desecration of Dahl

Like most children of the 1980s, I was introduced to the pleasure of reading primarily by Roald Dahl. That books authored by him have sold 300 million copies worldwide and been translated into 63 languages is a testament to the man’s genius: his wit, his creativity, and perhaps most of all, his profound understanding of

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The Koran

Backdoor Sharia Law

England has not boasted blasphemy laws since their abolition in 2008. The closest I’ve ever come to encountering them was way back in the 1990’s as a public school sprog, when a classmate decided to adorn his Bible with swastikas in R.E. class, ‘because he was bored’. He received a double-detention for his trouble –

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