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Banks: Heads They Win, Tails We Lose, As Usual

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Throwing good after bad…
I wrote a draft of this post at the start of the year but eventually shelved it because I thought it mightn't hold much interest for the Plain People of Ireland. But now here we are, coming to terms with the horror of impending financial disasters as they spread across the Eurozone–and [...]

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And now, over to our special news correspondent

Monday, April 14, 2008

Early days for Stephen Colbert
Fake news has probably been around as long as the real thing. Since the time of Mark Twain, who in his younger years posted many hoaxes in newspapers, almost as many writers have satirised the news as have reported on it.
In the 1960's the United States was enjoying light relief [...]

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