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“Has President Obama Travelled to Mars?”
Pay no attention to Tony Blair’s interview on Sky News this morning (still the master of the Vacuo-Olympian sound bite: “It’s really important to distinguish between a coalition that is a marriage of conviction and a coalition that is a marriage of convenience”).
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Sunday, 22 July 2012 at 4:11 pm
Does Manhattan Need a Subterranean Park?
Fine Question to Which the Answer is No asked by Time magazine: number 827 in my cult series, soon to be published in book form.
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Thursday, 12 July 2012 at 4:56 pm
What do we want? A referendum. When do we want it? “In due course”
A snippet from Matthew d’Ancona’s column in the Evening Standard today:
Most (though by no means all) of Cameron’s strategists believe that a plebiscite on any aspect of Britain’s relationship with the European Union would tear the Coalition to pieces. Better, the thinking goes, to wait for a fully Tory government, draw up a checklist of [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Thursday, 28 June 2012 at 9:22 pm
Could Ecuador be the most radical and exciting place on Earth?
And now, the Julian Assange Commemorative Edition of Questions to Which the Answer is No. This is number 826 in the long-running series, asked by Guess Which Newspaper.
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Monday, 25 June 2012 at 9:45 pm
Bo: Political liability?
Number 823 in my series of Questions to Which the Answer is No is asked, of the Presidential Dog (pictured), by Politico. Apparently someone has done a serious study of political pets.
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Friday, 15 June 2012 at 2:13 pm
Baghdad Spa Offers Fish Pedicures: Are Luxury Treatments The Newest Sign Of Progress?
Number 820 in my series of Questions to Which the Answer is No is asked by Huffington Post.
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Sunday, 10 June 2012 at 10:07 pm
Will the euro survive until 5 July?
This headline may look like a cheap way of bulking out my own series of Questions to Which the Answer is No, but I ask it in a genuine spirit of inquiry. I am puzzled by the absence of any serious economic commentator who suggests that the euro will survive for longer than a few years [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Wednesday, 6 June 2012 at 9:48 pm
Does the Pentagon have the right weapons to fight off an alien invasion?
Outstanding number 817 in my series of Questions to Which the Answer is No. Asked by Foreign Policy. Thanks to Ian Leslie, author of the outstanding Marbury blog and the outstanding Born Liars book.
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Wednesday, 6 June 2012 at 12:10 pm
Did Life On Earth Originate From Zombie Microbes?
Those are microbes that rise from underground singing “Thriller” in falsetto voices, presumably. Number 813 in the long-running series of Questions to Which the Answer is No, coming shortly to bookshops near you. This one is asked by NPR, National Public Radio in the US, for whom “zombie” seems to mean “extra-terrestrial”.
Thanks to Roger.
Number 814 [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Monday, 4 June 2012 at 10:34 am
Did Jesus Foresee the US Constitution?
Andrew Sullivan in The Daily Beast asks number 811 in my series of Questions to Which the Answer is No, in the headline on an article about Mormonism. Possibly not a genuine QTWTAIN (I don’t think Sullivan believes the US Constitution was foretold in 1st-century Judaea), unless it is rephrased to ask, “Does Mitt Romney [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Wednesday, 30 May 2012 at 2:23 pm
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