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Congratulations to President Trump 84

Posted on July 24, 2016 by

On his certain victory.

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In interesting times 71

Posted on July 17, 2016 by

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The wages of sin 155

Posted on July 06, 2016 by

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The Chilcot Report in full 207

Posted on July 06, 2016 by

The short version is “Everything Tony Blair said was a lie”. The full report can be read in 58 sections at the inquiry’s website here, but in the quite likely event that it gets swamped today we’ve uploaded the entire thing as a single convenient RAR file here.

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[EDIT: individual sections now compiled into the print version’s 12 volumes.]

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The rest of your life as a champion 126

Posted on June 04, 2016 by

Today we’re a boxing site, and that’s all there is to it.

First off the mark 186

Posted on March 22, 2016 by

Brussels terror atrocity = SNP BAD.

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Chris Deerin, Iain Martin, Alan Cochrane and Ian Smart will be hopping mad.

Better Together 1776 139

Posted on March 10, 2016 by

It turns out Scotland isn’t the first country to be too wee, too poor and too stupid for independence from the mighty and benificent United Kingdom.

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(Source.)

Future Shocks 88

Posted on February 27, 2016 by

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Order “Welcome To Cairnstoon”, Chris’ compilation of Wings cartoons and more, here.

Some brief thoughts on Donald Trump 285

Posted on February 25, 2016 by

Put your hands on your hearts, readers, and tell us that in the event of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin leading the USA and Russia a year or so from now, you can’t see this actually literally happening. [EDIT: The fight, not nuclear apocalypse. Obviously.]

Look us straight in the eye and tell us there’s a 0% chance.

You can’t, can you?

We live in interesting times.

A kind of goldrush 202

Posted on February 01, 2016 by

An alert reader directed us to an article on finance site Bloomberg today:

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It’s interesting to see a business and bankers’ perspective on something that we’ve already pointed out a number of times on Wings, namely that the lower oil price has at least as many upsides as downsides.

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One of us 67

Posted on January 23, 2016 by

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Old soak dribbles 131

Posted on December 15, 2015 by

I know he’s a figure of comedy and pity, but this is something else.

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Someone glue the cork in the bottle, eh? For his own good.

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