Do you want to pass up the chance to win a book?

Your chance to win! To mark the publication of my book, Questions to Which the Answer is No, next week, my generous publisher, Elliott & Thompson, is giving away 10 signed copies of the book.

There is an extract from the book in The Independent on Sunday, and a sample is available here. It is a collection of headlines in the form of Questions to Which the Answer is No (QTWTAIN). It celebrates the age-old journalistic skill of creating a sensational story out of nothing.

The competition will be a multimedia ongoing social network event. To enter, post on Twitter a question that you have found, with a link and the hashtag #WINQTWTAIN. They do not have to be from newspapers; they do not even have to be headlines; but they do have to be written by someone who implies that the answer is yes when it is not.

Here, to get you going, is number 842 in the world-famous series:

Are UFOs stalking the Mars Rover?

Asked by Ray Villard at Discovery News. Spotted by Jonathan Roberts. Subject to an appeal by Adrian McMenamin, on the grounds that Villard did not imply that the answer was yes. The appeal has been rejected by a subcommittee because the article also includes questions numbers 843 to 845: “Is that an elephant on Mars?” “Will the real ET be little green men or little green bacteria?” (a rare two-in-one) and “Could Terrorist Aliens Cyberattack Us?”

You can do better. Take to Twitter.* Or send me things on Facebook. Or Menshn, or on one of those other things. Or you can enter by sending an old-fashioned email with a link to your QTWTAIN to j.rentoul@independent.co.uk. You could even send a paper letter or postcard to 2 Derry Street London W8 5HF.

*The phrase “took to Twitter”, which is what celebrities do when newspapers report what a journalist has read on the internet, has been put on the Banned List, but “taking to Twitter” is permitted.

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• amazed00again

  But, is there the implication of an expectation of a preliminary ” yes” in your question?

  My, are you a man or a woman? You always seem so b!tchy on the Rentoul threads. Are you repressed or what’s the problem?

• stonedwolf

  Always bitchy, sometimes hysterical, rarely wrong, never equalled?

  John is a Hari. Never gave Hari an inch. Never giving John an inch. You call yourself on the left and ally yourself with the neo-con war machine you don’t a mere enemy of me – you make a nemesis.

• creggancowboy

  If the government (i.e police) are asinine enough to move against Broxted they will find it is unwise. Isn’t it entirely coincidental that when Broxted started work on police corruption he was arrested? Hope the Indy are a bit more careful in future – looks like the “exclusive” on “Joe Poulton” is going to bite them in the BTM. Finally poor Mr Rentoul is not harming you so kindly troll elsewhere Derek.

• amazed00again

  Your ‘whataboutery’ bid doesn’t wash. You were just vicious exposing that poor girl- a victim of rape. As for the Derek thing? Who the hell is Derek? And, I am not trolling ” poor Mr Rentoul” wtf? Can’t you read and comprehend? It’s the subject of this book that bores me and I am at liberty to make this point. What I do not bother with is trolling. Now, you with your pathetic accusation of ‘buyer’s remorse’ of any girl who has been the victim of rape is just stomach churning. That you repeat it on every blog trying to discuss this subject seriously makes you the troll. Pathetically nasty actually. Oh, and then you finish with your pathetically rebarbative : ” Hope I’m not phallocentrically oppressing you”. Man, that’s sick.

• amazed00again

  Well ,what a champion of the anti-war movement that I marched for too. Jeez, risible. So, telling Rentoul that he’s not as witty as Parris is your way of fighting the good fight? Devastating, man.

• creggancowboy

  Dear Stoned Please “do not feed the troll”;)

• creggancowboy

  Should plod be dumb enough to move against Broxted the trial will inevitably turn into a re-trial of the “victim”. I was told by a DS that she was “raped twice” and yet MacDonald was acquitted – so the police know more than the judge or jury! We will get 2 things out of the upcoming farce – the return of anonymity for rape trial defendants and a policy on false accusations. I’d be dying to see that;)

• stonedwolf

  He has shrugged-off the million Muslim deaths associated with the war. He really, truly, does not care one iota about them.

  And besides, there’s nothing wrong with being polyaccusatory. He supported the murder of a million Muslims, I’ve accused him of it before and will accuse him of it again, but I’m not going to singularly bleat about it like a broken Dalek. He’s trying to be witty and interesting, so there’s nothing wrong in drawing his attention to political writers who actually are genuinely witty and interesting.

  And turning the tables on you – criticising a critic of his – yeah man, that’s like, totally devastating too, like, maaaaaaaan.

• stonedwolf

  I feel the trawls – I feed them knuckle-duster pies.