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James Gordon Brown Speaks

Gordon Brown, compared memorably by Quentin Letts to Herbert Lom, and to Richard Nixon by sundry bloggers, has been on the interweb. He says that he often asks young people what they want to do when they grow up as he travels around the country, presumably secretly. I think that he should ask the Foreign Secretary, and that privileged, inexperienced yet strangely leathery child he is trying to impose on Erith and Thamesmead.

Here are some videos. Spot the difference in stature and application, some better, some worse. This continent has become the theatre of the absurd. Look at this story. It's about a scientist who got money to see if fish could get seasick. He proved it with an aeroplane, having already used a two stage rocket associated with the German Space Agency. It makes more sense than all the 'green' spending and taxing the Chancellor is going to do tomorrow. His rocket, incidentally, broke a tradition by failing to fall on London.





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berenike said…
You would barely know adult stem cells exist (THE)

This girl, on whose blog I read the above article, often has interesting finds.
7:24 am
Martin Meenagh said…
Thanks for the links, berenike. I suspect that you meant this comment for the post above, so I'll put the links up there too.
7:30 am
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