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Could a group of citizens running for election for one term only bring about change?
Andreas Whittam Smith, founder of The Independent, is a secular archbishop and a particular hero of mine. But he has some daft ideas, and this is one of them. At the Our Kingdom website he asks number 744 in my series of Questions to Which the Answer is No:
Could a group of like-minded citizens running [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Wednesday, 14 December 2011 at 5:46 pm
Is Christopher Hitchens about to convert?
My series of Questions to Which the Answer is No has been falling behind recently, owing to British history being made with the veto that Nick Clegg seemed to accept until he realised that actually he was furious about it.
Anyway, the above, from The Daily Caller on Thursday, is number 743. Thanks to Anthony Cox.
But [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Monday, 12 December 2011 at 10:10 pm
Is this an alien spacecraft parked next to Mercury?
The Daily Mail, still trying to attract my attention. All right. Questions to Which the Answer is No, number 741.
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Thursday, 8 December 2011 at 1:31 pm
Will Labour say, “Profit is good”?
Labour’s Business, a collection of essays on how the party can convince voters that it is not hostile to wealth-creation, was published yesterday. Alex Smith and Luke Bozier, who edited it, invited me to the launch to help stretch the spectrum and to encourage the other speakers to be right-wing and still look moderate.
Kitty Ussher, [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Thursday, 1 December 2011 at 9:55 pm
“Did the US Co-opt OWS in Order to Legitimize Egypt’s Flawed Elections?”
I marvel at how he finds them, but Oliver Kamm draws my attention to the above headline, referring to Occupy Wall Street, in which Jacob Levich asks number 739 in my series of Questions to Which the Answer is No.
Oliver also came up with number 738, asked by Kashmir Watch:
Does the demise of Steve Jobs [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 26 November 2011 at 12:57 pm
Were Adam and Eve ruling hybrids?
Were Adam and Eve ruling hybrids cloned by Manipulative Extraterrestrials to “rule” over our human ancestors that had previously existed billions of years, in the aftermath of an Extraterrestrial War?
What do you think?
Oliver Kamm, a sceptical friend, thinks that this question, the opening sentence of an article “special to The Canadian“, belongs in an internet [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Tuesday, 22 November 2011 at 5:20 pm
Is this an alien skull?
Number 735 in my series of Questions to Which the Answer is No is asked by the Daily Mail today.
The report also features one of the finest picture captions of recent years:
Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull featured a conical alien skull similar to the one found in Peru.
Thanks to Oliver Kamm.
Yesterday’s [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 19 November 2011 at 1:30 pm
Did the Romans leave London because of the miserable British weather?
I am told by a Classicist, to whom thanks, that this question, asked by Guess-Which-Newspaper, is number 733 in my series of Questions to Which the Answer is No. (Thirteenth-century wall built on Roman wall at London Wall, right.)
We have recently had number 732, asked by the BBC:
Can a bit of the Bee Gees help [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 5 November 2011 at 9:06 pm
Is this creature pictured in the Amazon jungle a visitor from outer space?
Number 730 in my series of Questions to Which the Answer is No (QTWTAIN) is a formulaic Friday offering by the Daily Mail, spotted by Emily Knight.
This one, also from the Daily Mail, has been disqualified by Oliver Kamm, possibly on the grounds that the Mail itself does not seriously imply that the answer might [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Friday, 21 October 2011 at 3:27 pm
Could Cain Be the Second Coming of Reagan?
I have the foggiest idea who Herman Cain is, but not much more. This headline, as well as being number 728 in my series of Questions to Which the Answer is No, ought also to win some award for mixed biblical references.
Thanks to David Skelton.
Meanwhile, my personal cult has acquired a German chapter, “Questions, the [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Tuesday, 18 October 2011 at 7:13 pm
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