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Was Area 51 a conspiracy between Stalin and Joseph Mengele?

Paul Dacre last week continued the Daily Mail’s odious peddling of the most offensive conspiracy theory, about the death of David Kelly. New readers may want to consult the green-ink archive on this blog, and to recall that David Aaronovitch has an outstanding invitation to debate any of the conspiracy theorists in public.
This has not been [...]

By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators - | Monday, 16 May 2011 at 10:19 pm

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Are Cameron and Clegg cracking up?

The Daily Mail website now seems to be devoted to parodies designed to trick me into adding its headlines to my series of Questions to Which the Answer is No. I have fallen for it again. Here, thanks to my friend Graham (you don’t think I read this stuff myself, do you?), is number 608:
Are Cameron [...]

By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators - | Wednesday, 11 May 2011 at 5:41 pm

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Did Tupperware invent social networking?

Number 606 in my series of Questions to Which the Answer is No,* is asked by the Daily Mail (seems to be website only).
Not sure if this was a different headline on the same story, “Did Tupperware parties change the lives of women?”, asked by the BBC yesterday, which I am not qualified to answer.
Thanks [...]

By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators - | Wednesday, 11 May 2011 at 9:48 am

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Here’s a Question We’re Not Going to Answer

Wonderful blog about “The Four Kinds of New York Times Headlines” by Alex Leo (via Charles Arthur). They are…

By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators - | Friday, 6 May 2011 at 7:35 pm

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Is TV Too Gay?

Number 603 in my series of Questions to Which the Answer is No is asked by Fox TV, concerned about the appearance of two gay high-school couples in the latest instalment of Glee, which I believe to be a popular comedy drama series, although it may also contain elements of the oxymoron “reality show”. (Thanks [...]

By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators - | Thursday, 5 May 2011 at 8:50 pm

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Are al-Qa’ida and the Taliban driven by the desire to help others?

A worthy entry at number 602 in the chart of Questions to Which the Answer is No is supplied by Aditya Chakrabortty at The Guardian.
It is actually an interesting article about research by psychologists and economists into the motivations of suicide bombers. Although it is spoiled by Chakrabortty’s apparent endorsement of the facile conclusions one [...]

By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators - | Tuesday, 3 May 2011 at 10:54 am

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Justice for Bin Laden?

Norman Geras asks a rare and unexpected Question to Which the Answer is Yes But Not in That Way.
The usual moonbats around the internet will conform to Sadie Smith’s Law, which is that [Osama bin Laden's Death][Big News Story] Will Prove Us All Right, by saying that what happened in Abbottabad (which sounds like an English [...]

By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators - | Monday, 2 May 2011 at 7:02 pm

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Does PM Have a Death Wish?

Number 601 in my series of Questions to Which the Answer is No was asked by the indispensable Paul Waugh yesterday of David Cameron’s instant footnote in history, “Calm down, dear.”

By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators - | Thursday, 28 April 2011 at 3:46 pm

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Is Tony Blair Set for Knighthood?

Here is a Question to Which the Answer Was No from the Sunday before last. It doesn’t count, because it is from the Sunday Express, and the series was originally confined to questions in headlines in newspapers, which did not, in my taxonomy, include the Express or the Sunday Express.
However, it is worth recalling in [...]

By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators - | Wednesday, 27 April 2011 at 5:32 pm

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Are we all going to die next Wednesday?

Returning to the internet after the Easter weekend in the real world (Banned List number 76), I discover a cornucopia of Questions to Which the Answer is No.
Number 597, above, was asked by the Daily Mail’s Rentoul-baiting factory on Saturday, so the Wednesday to which it refers is tomorrow.
Today, the factory has a much friendlier [...]

By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators - | Tuesday, 26 April 2011 at 11:31 am

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