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The Very Fluffy Diary of Millennium Dome, Elephant: Day 2130: DOCTOR WHO: Sarah Jane Smith
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The Very Fluffy Diary of Millennium Dome, Elephant. A blog by Richard Flowers. Tuesday, November 14, 2006. Day 2130: DOCTOR WHO: Sarah Jane Smith. These are a series of adventure stories on shiny disc from the awfully nice BIG FISH people about Dr Who's one time Best Friend Sarah. On the other fluffy foot, being six months late is a good excuse for oodles of SPOILERS! In the five CD run being the EXCITING REVEAL at the end of that story of the season BIG BAD villain. Well, several months later for Sarah ...
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The Very Fluffy Diary of Millennium Dome, Elephant: Day 3229: Dave the Cave – Mr Balloon versus Lisbon and the Truth
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The Very Fluffy Diary of Millennium Dome, Elephant. A blog by Richard Flowers. Thursday, November 05, 2009. Day 3229: Dave the Cave – Mr Balloon versus Lisbon and the Truth. The Conservatories have made a GREAT DEAL of political capital out of their FALSE claim that the other parties promised a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty and then reneged. Let's be quite clear: in 2005, NOBODY promised a vote on the Lisbon Treaty, because in 2005 the Lisbon Treaty DID NOT EXIST! But DID Mr Balloon admit it? Remember,...
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The Very Fluffy Diary of Millennium Dome, Elephant: Day 5289: Fluffy footnote: what IS this DEFICIT thingie, again?
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The Very Fluffy Diary of Millennium Dome, Elephant. A blog by Richard Flowers. Friday, June 26, 2015. Day 5289: Fluffy footnote: what IS this DEFICIT thingie, again? I cannot emphasise the following enough: The Deficit is NOT the National Debt. The deficit ADDS TO our National Debt. I'm sure that Tim Lord Tim ( @timfarron. And Mr Norman Conquest ( @normanlamb. Get this. But too many politicians clearly DON'T. So: Economics for Elephants 101…. The Government raises about seven hundred billion quid in taxes.
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The Very Fluffy Diary of Millennium Dome, Elephant: February 2015
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The Very Fluffy Diary of Millennium Dome, Elephant. A blog by Richard Flowers. Tuesday, February 24, 2015. Day 5168: An Elephant's Eye on the Election. You may not have noticed that there's an election coming. They've been keeping rather quiet about it. A number of people have said that this year's election is "too close to call" or "too complicated" but I think that, even this far out, the results are pretty obvious. The reasons for this are, of course, complicated, but come down to the weakness of Mr M...
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The Very Fluffy Diary of Millennium Dome, Elephant: Day 5326: My Fair Ladies (and Lords)
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The Very Fluffy Diary of Millennium Dome, Elephant. A blog by Richard Flowers. Tuesday, August 04, 2015. Day 5326: My Fair Ladies (and Lords). The Conservatories seem to have discovered a previously-buried passion for democratic "fairness". They say something like this:. The Lib Dems only got 8 MPs, but they have 101 Lords, that's so. And of course they are RIGHT. I look forward to Mr Balloon firing 29 of his more egregiously stupid followers so they can achieve the "fairness" that they say they want.
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The Very Fluffy Diary of Millennium Dome, Elephant: Day 5241: The Balloon Goes Up
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The Very Fluffy Diary of Millennium Dome, Elephant. A blog by Richard Flowers. Tuesday, May 12, 2015. Day 5241: The Balloon Goes Up. Well, as Sir Bedivere might have said surveying the field of Camlann and the ruin of the flower of England, that could have gone better. Not that the Liberal Democrats' campaign was innocent of blame in this. Fear won the day because we didn't give hope a chance. Sometimes only chocolate can help. It would be easy to blame Cap'n Clegg. Some already have, though the swif...
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The Very Fluffy Diary of Millennium Dome, Elephant: September 2014
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The Very Fluffy Diary of Millennium Dome, Elephant. A blog by Richard Flowers. Monday, September 22, 2014. Day 5004: DOCTOR WHO: Nothing at the End of the Plot. Listen" certainly seems to have pushed the right buttons for most fans of the show, garnering near universal praise from the online communities: an acting tour de force, an intricate character study, and the rest. So I know I'm in a minority on this one. Why has evolution not come up with perfect hiding? This is the episode's biggest cheat: the "...
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The Very Fluffy Diary of Millennium Dome, Elephant: December 2014
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The Very Fluffy Diary of Millennium Dome, Elephant. A blog by Richard Flowers. Sunday, December 28, 2014. Day 5060: DOCTOR WHO: Remembrance (Day) of the Cybermen*. There’s one central idea here done superbly well: the Master is just doing all this to get her friend back. Alex once wrote a piece – one I fully endorse – titled “The Time Lords are Gits and Always Have Been”, chronicling their use and abuse of arbitrary power from “The War Games” on. And suddenly, watching this, I realised that it’s. It̵...
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The Very Fluffy Diary of Millennium Dome, Elephant: May 2015
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The Very Fluffy Diary of Millennium Dome, Elephant. A blog by Richard Flowers. Wednesday, May 27, 2015. Day 5259: Is George Osborne Planning a Sneaky VAT Rise in the Emergency Budget? So Mr Balloon has promised that he'd make it the LAW that he won't let Gideon put up Income Tax, National Insurance or VAT. They'll change the law to stop them changing the law. And then Master Gideon announces an "emergency" budget. IFS November 2014, pdf. Announcing that he's "found the money" for the NHS would make it EX...
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