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Blog 201409

Day: September 19, 2014

Long live the prickly pear!

Death to the cochineal beetle and doom to the ecologists!

If the Guardian really cared about the North and manufacturing, it would never have left Manchester

You want constitutional reform for the UK? Kalebeul has something for everyone, except mad thieving bastards.

Have you climbed London’s 33 summits?

Nice, and the take-aways are better than in the Himalayas. An alternative list.

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