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TobamorisRevenge knows.

This is from a month ago (i.e. before a lot of the Crimea nonsense) but still a decent background/overview/primer: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/mar/20/fascism-russia-and-ukraine/

Yes Gemmill. http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/newcastle-cocktail-bar-popolo-closes-6854097

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Day_of_Happiness

It only took them four years, but the Lib Dems have actually managed something!

Oh christ.

http://longtermplan.org.uk/

Dusty agrees

That's Putin it mildly.

Blimey, I never thought it'd be possible to have a "Spot the androgynous one in Suede" competition with numerous runners.

Yee-hawtje

That's one component of it, but a reasonably minor one.

"PardsBoys"

It's nee Scooch like.

That's what I was saying during the last bubble too, but it's in every politician's interest to keep the thing inflated.

They're not supposed to be, but...

Christ. "Red Ed" indeed.

But enough about Ali G.

Miliband: "While I didn't always agree with everything he said..." (probably) Proper politician. RIP.

Not yet, it all kicks off in early May in Copenhagen... but two weeks in Malmö last year were more than enough in that part of the world (since it's basically the same place, just the other end of the bridge) so a bunch of us hardened Euro veterans are off to Gran Canaria to observe proceedings from a distance instead.

Moldova keeping things understated at Eurovision:

I didn't, but you absolutely could and probably should. Cream improves most things in life.