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• Scumbag millionaires
• Triplets at 17
• Outrage at cops' gay writes comp
• Revenge of the whistleblower
• Armed police and helicopter raid Wild West party
• Do you know the way to San Jose?
• Now eggs are good for you
• Healthy teenager killed by poisons after minor scratch
• Salma's milk of human kindness
• Church of England votes to ban clergy from joining BNP
• First fall in number of graduate jobs for six years

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P.S. I'm working tomorrow morning, so feel free to take over and post the talking points and headlines for yourselves.

Diplomatic row after Jacqui Smith bans from Britain Dutch MP who planned to show anti-Islam film at House of Lords

Is the UK wrong to ban Geert Wilders from entering, or should we let him in like we let rapists and other extremists in? Is it a case of you can be Islamist and extreme, but can't be extreme anti-Islamist?

Bankers' bonus 'is their human right' - The Sun, 2009 02 10
Referenced from this post.
I think someone should remind the bankers that the only human rights everyone has, and can claim, are the right to continue breathing, and the right to be able to enjoy one's life without getting mugged or otherwise attacked. The only necessities we all need are food in our bellies, clean water and sanitation, sturdy clothing for modesty and to protect against the weather and a bit of shelter, possibly a place to raise children in and give them a good memory.

Everything else - all the rampant greed and capitalism - is just surplusage and excrecence; and in a time of crisis, massive inequality and intransigent social immobility where the poorest, who already live in grinding austerity, have to cut back to the very quick, the extravagance of a handful of people who have got more than two pennies to rub together cannot go unexamined, or indeed unchallenged.

I could summarise my response to the bankers' whingeing in two short words, but both words are unsuitable for a family audience.

It takes 11 years to find true love

THE average woman goes on 39 dates with 15 fellas over 11 years trying to find Mr Right, a survey claims.

She will spend £3,630 in total, as each date costs an average of £61.47 plus £31.62 on an outfit, make-up and their hair.

Of the 4,000 Brits quizzed by onepoll.com, a lucky 16 per cent said their first love was their ideal man.

A onepoll spokesman said: "True love's a tricky business."

So how much do you spend on finding true love? Have you found it yet, or are you still looking?

As chosen by the panel, which this week includes Stephen K. Amos and Lowri Turner.

• Bankers' bonus 'is their human right'


• Head of drug advisory body apologises for comparing taking Ecstasy with horse riding


• Britain has produced unteachable 'uber-chavs'


• Parents cry out for their lost children: As fire death toll hits 200, a nation in the grip of grief


• After the freeze, the floods: A month's rain in one night leave roads flooded as winter storms sweep across Britain


• Head 'forced out' over ban on Muslim assemblies


• Head 'forced out' over ban on Muslim assemblies


• My daughter starved to death after doctors took eight teeth out


• Toddler amazes doctors by making a full recovery after spending EIGHTEEN minutes under water


• Nurseries better than grandparents, research shows


• Take children off full-fat milk after the age of two, say experts


• Blue Peter at 50-year low after being sidelined by The Weakest Link

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Is seeing the underbelly of society representing the working classes unfair, or does TV portray an accurate picture of today's working class? Should we be seeing more 'normal' families on TV, or would that just bore the socks off us all?

Outrage over 'slaughter' of thousands of grey squirrels in plan to save red from brink of extinction

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What're your views on this? Should we be bludgeoning these illegal immigrants to death, or should we leave them to eat our British nuts, and wipe out our very own red squirrels?

Tina Malone, who plays Mimi Maguire in the BAFTA award-winning British comedy drama television series Shameless was today's special guest.

Welcome to the community celebrating the joy that is Matthew Wright's The Wright Stuff, currently showing on Five - created for discussion of the talking points raised on the show, and not =just= for the worship of Mr Wright himself. ;)

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