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Quiet please
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December 22, 2025 at 2:23 PM
This crossword is exceptional www.theguardian.com/crosswords/2...
Hard but very much worth the effort.
Genius crossword No 269
Deadline for entries is 23:59 GMT on Saturday 29 November. You need to register once and then sign in to theguardian.com to enter our online competition for a £100 monthly prize
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Why did the palindrome cross the road?

To get a map a mate got.

#palindrome
September 5, 2025 at 6:22 AM
I dig this
July 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
What I did with my day off ( @olihawkins.com )
July 9, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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The greatest bonus panel of my career is here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/crystals

#smbc
July 8, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Apparently a Conservative from Valletta fearful of flooding, stopped investing in a high-rise garage and instead built a ship for his koi collection.

It was a

wait for it

Maltese Tory carp ark.

Enjoy your weekend.
June 28, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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She Had a Dream about the King of Sweden - Van Arno, 2005
October 12, 2023 at 2:31 PM
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This is absolutely superb. Proper, numerate, data-aware research into a complex and controversial issue.
NEW on Wonkhe: Why do proportionally more young people from ethnic minorities go to university, but proportionally less of them get first class degrees? Paul Martin has done the research. buff.ly/eST9Mnr
June 18, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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“A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport”

By Ruben Bolling

Genius. Click in.
June 5, 2025 at 6:18 AM
RIP George Wendt.
Top Norm.
May 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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A huge, quiet success: violence has fallen 75% in a generation:
May 17, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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THE YETI SPEAKS (whose two halves use the same letters, in the same order):
November 29, 2024 at 9:14 AM
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NEW on Wonkhe: The headlines are well known, but the full HESA release adds a lot of detail to a generally bleak picture. David Kernohan has the charts buff.ly/x3m7xS5
May 9, 2025 at 6:10 AM
This is good. I feel much better informed having read it.
May 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Saw this today on another site: the 2017 Green Day concert where they were playing recorded music beforehand and everyone in the 65,000 person crowd spontaneously sang along with "Bohemian Rhapsody." I love this video.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZnB...
Green Day Crowd Singing Bohemian Rhapsody [Live in Hyde Park 2017]
YouTube video by Green Day
www.youtube.com
April 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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March 20, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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My latest puzzle is in the Independent today.

You can play for free here.

puzzles.independent.co.uk/games/crypti...

Featuring:
Do good, good dog (7)

📷 by me
Modelling by Clyde.

#cryptic #crossword #puzzle #dog
January 29, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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LOITERATURE - the book, article or whatever else you may read while you’re waiting. #neologism
January 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
The thinking-man's conspiricist reveals once again the hidden connections driving the course of history
January 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I don't celebrate dry January and so I found this useful today
You’re welcome! 😊🍻 HNY!
January 12, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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NEW

How the lore of New Year defeated the law of New Year

How the English state gave up on insisting the new year started on 25 March

By me

Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/how-the-lo...

Personal blog:
davidallengreen.com/2025/01/how-...
How the lore of New Year defeated the law of New Year
How the English state gave up on insisting the new year started on 25 March
emptycity.substack.com
January 1, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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In October, I had a very long chat with Alan Moore. On magick, sci-fi, the perils of ecological doomerism, the joy of occultist pranks, the psychogeography of Stoke Newington, the invention of the taser - and much more!

As a Christmas treat here it is IN FULL.

seamas.medium.com/its-a-rabbit...
It’s a rabbit out of a hat: On magick, fantasy and pretty much everything else, with Alan Moore
In October of this year, I spent a balmy evening talking with Alan Moore on the week that he had two — count ’em!— new books on the…
seamas.medium.com
December 23, 2024 at 1:14 PM
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To mark Macca’s big Christmas gigs, have just shown this to the kid for the first time and ruined / improved Christmas immeasurably.

youtu.be/cW1ou7SH3is?...
Ringo Remembers Christmas 1979
YouTube video by Peter Serafinowicz
youtu.be
December 19, 2024 at 9:56 PM