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Perhaps the only thing the Government can do to stabilise fuel prices is to speed up the demise of the Islamic Republic and fire a few missiles of our own?
The Lost Art of Getting Frustrated
The real engine of progress must be a population that spends its days grappling with imperfect machines and frustrating activities. That is where the ideas are born, and ideas are the only way to solve any problem.
The Ayatollah Try-Outs
I feel the mullahs of Tehran were a mite hasty in going with one of their own. There are other just as worthy candidates far beyond their shores.
If Not America, Then What?
America may be a flawed hegemon but it’s easily better than all the alternatives.
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‘I think it’s my time, I’ve given a lot here, and when you give a lot here it takes away from other spaces’ – Henare
The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… prototype (noun) - 1: an original model on which something is patterned : archetype 2: an individual that exhibits the essential features of a later type 3: a standard or typical example 4: a first full-scale and usually functional form of a new type or design