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11th September 2013: The world's gone mad and I'm the only one who knows
13th August 2013: Black is white. Fact. End of.
11th August 2013: Electric cars, not as green as they're painted?
18th June 2013: Wrinklies unite, you have nothing to lose but your walking frames!
17th May 2013: Some actual FACTS about climate change (for a change) from actual scientists ...
10th May 2013: An article about that poison gas, carbon dioxide, and other scientific facts (not) ...
10th May 2013: We need to see past the sex and look at the crimes: is justice being served?
8th May 2013: So, who would you trust to treat your haemorrhoids, Theresa May?
8th May 2013: Why should citizens in the 21st Century fear the law so much?
30th April 2013: What the GOS says today, the rest of the world realises tomorrow ...
30th April 2013: You couldn't make it up, could you? Luckily you don't need to ...
29th April 2013: a vote for NONE OF THE ABOVE, because THE ABOVE are crap ...
28th April 2013: what goes around, comes around?
19th April 2013: everyone's a victim these days ...
10th April 2013: Thatcher is dead; long live Thatcher!
8th April 2013: Poor people are such a nuisance. Just give them loads of money and they'll go away ...
26th March 2013: Censorship is alive and well and coming for you ...
25th March 2013: Just do your job properly, is that too much to ask?
25th March 2013: So, what do you think caused your heterosexuality?
20th March 2013: Feminists - puritans, hypocrites or just plain stupid?
18th March 2013: How Nazi Germany paved the way for modern governance?
13th March 2013: Time we all grew up and lived in the real world ...
12th March 2013: Hindenburg crash mystery solved? - don't you believe it!
6th March 2013: Is this the real GOS?
5th March 2013: All that's wrong with taxes
25th February 2013: The self-seeking MP who is trying to bring Britain down ...
24th February 2013: Why can't newspapers just tell the truth?
22nd February 2013: Trial by jury - a radical proposal
13th February 2013: A little verse for two very old people ...
6th February 2013: It's not us after all, it's worms
6th February 2013: Now here's a powerful argument FOR gay marriage ...
4th February 2013: There's no such thing as equality because we're not all the same ...
28th January 2013: Global Warming isn't over - IT'S HIDING!
25th January 2013: Global Warmers: mad, bad and dangerous to know ...
25th January 2013: Bullying ego-trippers, not animal lovers ...
19th January 2013: We STILL haven't got our heads straight about gays ...
16th January 2013: Bullying ego-trippers, not animal lovers ...
11th January 2013: What it's like being English ...
7th January 2013: Bleat, bleat, if it saves the life of just one child ...
7th January 2013: How best to put it? 'Up yours, Argentina'?
7th January 2013: Chucking even more of other people's money around ...
6th January 2013: Chucking other people's money around ...
30th December 2012: The BBC is just crap, basically ...
30th December 2012: We mourn the passing of a genuine Grumpy Old Sod ...
30th December 2012: How an official body sets out to ruin Christmas ...
16th December 2012: Why should we pardon Alan Turing when he did nothing wrong?
15th December 2012: When will social workers face up to their REAL responsibility?
15th December 2012: Unfair trading by a firm in Bognor Regis ...
14th December 2012: Now the company that sells your data is pretending to act as watchdog ...
7th December 2012: There's a war between cars and bikes, apparently, and most of us never noticed!
26th November 2012: The bottom line - social workers are just plain stupid ...
20th November 2012: So, David Eyke was right all along, then?
15th November 2012: MPs don't mind dishing it out, but when it's them in the firing line ...
14th November 2012: The BBC has a policy, it seems, about which truths it wants to tell ...
12th November 2012: Big Brother, coming to a school near you ...
9th November 2012: Yet another celebrity who thinks, like Jimmy Saville, that he can behave just as he likes because he's famous ...
5th November 2012: Whose roads are they, anyway? After all, we paid for them ...
7th May 2012: How politicians could end droughts at a stroke if they chose ...
6th May 2012: The BBC, still determined to keep us in a fog of ignorance ...
2nd May 2012: A sense of proportion lacking?
24th April 2012: Told you so, told you so, told you so ...
15th April 2012: Aah, sweet ickle polar bears in danger, aah ...
15th April 2012: An open letter to Anglian Water ...
30th March 2012: Now they want to cure us if we don't believe their lies ...
28th February 2012: Just how useful is a degree? Not very.
27th February 2012: ... so many ways to die ...
15th February 2012: DO go to Jamaica because you definitely WON'T get murdered with a machete. Ms Fox says so ...
31st January 2012: We don't make anything any more
27th January 2012: There's always a word for it, they say, and if there isn't we'll invent one
26th January 2012: Literary criticism on GOS? How posh!
12th December 2011: Plain speaking by a scientist about the global warming fraud
9th December 2011: Who trusts scientists? Apart from the BBC, of course?
7th December 2011: All in all, not a good week for British justice ...
9th November 2011: Well what d'you know, the law really IS a bit of an ass ...

 

 
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It's offensive and probably illegal. 13th February 09: This is how Captain Grumpy spends his weekends ... 9th February 09: If cars were as up-to-date as computers ... 7th February 09: Thank you for purchasing a McDonnell-Douglas military aircraft ... 7th February 09: words of wisdom from the US military - now there's a first! 25th January 09: ... is citizenship a right or a privilege? 15th January 09: ... and on the first day, man invented God ... 22nd December 08: A Merry Christmas to All Our Readers ... 7th December 08: It's nice to get a bit of feedback occasionally ... 7th December 08: You just don't know which lying bastard to believe, do you? 6th December 08: A mistake is not a crime, however serious the consequences ... 28th February 09: Another great scientific leap forward ... 11th March 09: But sometimes the sun does shine ... 11th March 09: The spy who COULDN'T love me. Or walk, even ... 11th March 09: Why we won't be watching or giving on Friday night. 13th March 09: Why more equal societies almost always do better 25th March 09: The mathematics of success ... 31st March 09: It's not just us, then ... 2nd June 09: Poor Susan Boyle, they didn't let her win. How unfair. 30th April 09: 'Girl, 13, already has cough' 29th April 09: Us oldies could rule the world, if we only realised it ... 15th April 09: Please note: this story is NOT funny, all right? 14th April 09: The NHS: if a cowboy builder gave this level of service he'd be on Watchdog ... 14th August 09: You know that conspiracy theory that the moon landings were a fake? 25th July 09: Swine Flu: scarier than we thought? 12th July 09: Confucious he say ... 18th June 09: A brilliant book, essential reading for everyone with half a brain ... 11th June 09: Plus ça change, plus c'est pareil 5th June 09: Bloody background bloody music too bloody loud! 9th April 10: I've made up my own language so you'd better respect me ... 19th March 10: Not everything has to be someone's fault. Shit happens. 16th March 10: Better to travel hopefully? Fat chance! 16th March 10: Norman Tebbit, still grumpy after all these years ... 5th March 10: Perhaps Captain Grumpy isn't as clever as he thought ... 29th January 10: Jumping on the racial bandwagon ... 24th January 10: Good to think positively for a change ... 8th January 10: What are weather forecasters FOR, exactly? 3rd January 10: George Moonbat has finally lost his mind. Shame. 23rd December 09: You know that feeling that they're all out to get you? 12th December 09: The BBC is not impartial or neutral - Andrew Marr 1st December 09: Not like those soft Southern bastards, then ... 1st December 09: Quis custodiet ipsos custodies? 25th November 09: Ombudsmen - whose side are they on, exactly? 19th November 09: The spies looking over your shoulder - RIGHT NOW! 9th November 09: Shock! Horror! Is the GOS a gay-basher? 31st October 09: Whose side are they on? Bloody good question! 23rd October 09: A sad day for democracy and free speech 9th September 09: You mark my words, no good'll come of it. Far too sensible ... 9th September 09: GOS - a bit slow on the uptake, to be honest ... 9th September 09: Not a lot of people know this ... 30th September 09: Pandas - useless, boring and suicidal ... 13th September 09: How nice to know there are experts tirelessly looking out for us ... 23rd November 10: Insulting your enemies properly is just as important as anything you do to your friends 19th November 10: Now Al Qaida are recruiting kids. OUR kids ... 16th November 10: If airports are so vulnerable, why aren't the Israelis bothered? 12th November 10: Can't hear you, la la la, got my fingers in my ears ... 1st November 10: I'm in deep trouble; I just broke a nail ... 30th July 10: How to sort out the problem of our prisons ... 26th July 10: All I wanted was a tin of red paint ...! 26th July 10: Essential reading, we think ... 23rd May 10: I used to love him, but now I hate him ... 7th March 2011: We're sorry, all right? We didn't do it, but we're terribly, terribly sorry ... 13th March 2011: What to do with that census form ... 3rd May 2011: Pippa's bum wasn't the only remarkable thing ... 25th May 2011: No no, you fool, not Polish people ... 26th May 2011: Library management as a form of paedophilia, apparently ... 6th June 2011: You can't just get it on with anyone you like, you know ... there are RULES these days ... 29th June 2011: The entire history of mankind versus one little volcano? No contest! 13th July 2011: Phone hacking? What's all the fuss about? 11th July 2011: It's not a train station, you muppet, it's a RAILWAY station 8th August 2011: Australia 3, Rest of the World 0 9th August 2011: Now here's a wild idea - FREE PARKING! 30th August 2011: Of course it couldn't happen here ... could it? 18th October 2011: We all love Downton Abbey, but it isn't working any more ... 12th February 2012: The silly things people say ... 23rd December 2011: A Merry Christmas to both our readers 21st December 2011: Some quotes about sex from famous people ...
 

 
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