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simonsketch

  1. My new austerity site for people announcing their resignation in 140 characters: Quitter.com. 3:51 AM May 26th via OpenBeak
  2. War with Iran is ever more likely not for the normal reasons - but because war is in the interests of all our leaders. 1:36 AM May 22nd via OpenBeak
  3. Non cogito ergo nescio utrum sim necne. 12:13 AM May 9th via OpenBeak
  4. The street crime in my part of Oxford! Thugs have blacked out the apostophe in St Margaret's Rd. They know to upset a whole community. 1:52 AM May 7th via OpenBeak
  5. My depressing May day observation: summer hasn't started and next month, the days start getting shorter again. 4:11 AM May 2nd via OpenBeak
  6. The Thames in Oxfordshire is within a foot of defying the hosepipe ban - is that water all really running into the sea? 8:24 AM May 1st via OpenBeak
  7. The party that takes this one-word strategy to its heart will win the next election. The one word is: PLUMBERS. 3:50 PM Apr 30th via OpenBeak
  8. Surely the Daily Mail has found someone being prosecuted for using their hosepipe during a flood? 11:02 AM Apr 29th via OpenBeak
  9. Brian Paddick has a £64,000 police pension. He is 53. 5:30 AM Apr 6th via OpenBeak
  10. Quote to repoint an 80-foot wall and re-lay the two top courses of bricks: £6,000. I could get a lawyer to do it for that. 3:25 AM Mar 19th via OpenBeak
  11. Progenitor 1 and Progenitor 2 is an gross affront to the equalities agenda - a virtually fascistically hierarchical gender structure. 10:58 AM Mar 17th via OpenBeak
  12. Slumdog shacks in Mumbai selling for £100,000. That's more than the average house price in North East England. 3:56 AM Mar 4th via OpenBeak
  13. The horse is dead. Stop flogging it. 11:40 PM Mar 2nd via OpenBeak
  14. David Cameron's way of saying "properly" is catching on. Lord Leveson and Mr Jay used it y'day - and Nicola Blackwood just now. "Proply". 6:37 AM Feb 28th via OpenBeak
  15. Is catastrophic global warming, like the Millenium Bug an example of "science in the service of politics"? Indy blogs. 2:35 PM Feb 22nd via OpenBeak
  16. Prof Lindzen in Commons today: "The whole idea of climate being one number driven by another number is nutty." More filed in Indy blogs. 2:34 PM Feb 22nd via OpenBeak
  17. Lindzen (climate dissident) in the Commons today: 2:33 PM Feb 22nd via OpenBeak
  18. Just downloaded the paperwork to add a signatory to a Barclays bank account. It's twenty eight A4 pages. 4:21 AM Feb 20th via OpenBeak
  19. We're recalling our ambassador from Syria. Oh yes. We mean it to sting. 2:06 PM Feb 6th via OpenBeak
  20. Mail editor in front of the Press Regulation Inquiry on Monday. The big question is: Will Paul Dacre call Lord Leveson a "cunt"? 2:26 AM Feb 3rd via OpenBeak
  • Name Simon Carr
  • Bio The Independent's parliamentary sketch writer and columnist since 2000
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