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Is David Cameron the most Europhile prime minister since Edward Heath?

Peter Oborne. Number 619. Douglas Carswell rephrases the question here:
The most Euro integrationist government since Ted Heath’s?
The fruitcake count is high. All those Europhobe Tories who described Tony Blair as the most dangerous man in Britain because he wanted the euro to succeed, and expected Britain to join it, now condemn the most Eurosceptic prime minister since [...]

By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators - | Sunday, 5 June 2011 at 9:34 pm

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Is this a secret space station on Mars?

The Daily Mail storybot generated this automatic headline on the website’s front page (copied, right, because it will presumably be taken off the front page soon), but put a straight headline on the story itself. Still, a worthy number 617 for my series of Questions to Which the Answer is No.
Thanks to Paul McConville.
And here [...]

By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators - | Sunday, 5 June 2011 at 3:35 pm

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Were the Smurfs Nazis?

Number 616 in my series of Questions to Which the Answer is No is asked by Tim Karan at Newser.
The Smurfs were socialists and “the embodiment of a totalitarian utopia, steeped in Stalinism and Nazism,” says Antoine Buéno, a French sociologist, in a new book, Le Petit Livre Bleu.
Thanks to Andrew Scheuber.
And number 615 was [...]

By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators - | Saturday, 4 June 2011 at 10:16 am

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Is this a squadron of UFOs flying over California?

They have done it again. Left the autostorybot on overnight. And this is the sort of gibberish it produces. Oh well. Number 614 in my series of Questions to Which the Answer is No.
And once again, first spotted by Oliver Kamm. He’s good at this, you know.

By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators - | Tuesday, 31 May 2011 at 5:39 pm

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Will Kissinger, Bush & Blair Be Brought Before the International Court?

Mark Seddon, former editor of Tribune, re-asks number 180 in my series of Questions to Which the Answer is No. It is a common enough way of saying “I didn’t agree with the Iraq war” but each time the questioner manages to add another layer of insult.
With Philippe Sands it was to compare Tony Blair’s [...]

By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators - | Monday, 30 May 2011 at 5:41 pm

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Is this Bigfoot caught on video?

I do not know what number this is in my series of Questions to Which the Answer is No, because I cannot find the first time I asked (and answered) it.
But the Daily Mail is now asking it again, and quoting a woman who insists that it really is Bigfoot this time.
Update: I’ve found it. [...]

By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators - | Saturday, 28 May 2011 at 5:34 pm

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Is This Cat a Great Photographer?

Fine contribution  to my series of Questions to Which the Answer is No from Huffington Post: number 613.
The sample (right) proves my point.
Meanwhile, my attention has been drawn to this letter to The Daily Telegraph on Saturday:

SIR – I am reminded of an after-dinner game in which guests score points for coming up with a question to [...]

By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators - | Tuesday, 24 May 2011 at 9:46 am

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Will this wind be so mighty as to lay low the mountains of the earth?

Here is a classic, but topical, Question to Which the Answer is No from 1962.
Thanks to James.

By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators - | Friday, 20 May 2011 at 9:42 pm

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Can taking Viagra make you go deaf?

Number 612 in my series of Questions to Which the Answer is No is asked by the newspaper that the Prime Minister Dared to Contradict. (I told you it would be cross. Cameron’s ill-advised outburst of common sense in the matter of David Kelly yesterday has “led to anger“. Frankly, its report today should have [...]

By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators - | Thursday, 19 May 2011 at 9:31 am

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Did a gluten-free diet make Novak Djokovic the best tennis player in the world?

I do not normally do sport, apart from American football. I have a particular aversion to tennis, until they abolish the babyish second-service rule. And I have never heard of Novak Djokovic. But this, asked by Irish website The Score, is good enough to be number 611 in my series of Questions to Which the Answer is [...]

By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators - | Wednesday, 18 May 2011 at 4:06 pm