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Well, what do you talk then? You talk coffees?

Tilly

Simply planning, or engaging in, a protest is not, and should never be, a reason for arrest.

The Independent

And so to the Urals, where medics are reported to have removed a tiny fir tree from a man’s lung, after he complained of chest pains. Before doctors opened him up, they were convinced he had lung cancer. Now, they’re convinced he inhaled a seed, which sprouted inside him.

Ian Sample

It was all in my head - my father would play the piano and I would have a mental party in the hole in the ground.

How dare you presume to tell me a story, and then not tell me the best possible story?

David Simon

Reviled for its ugliness and feared because of its unstoppable invasion of the Australian landscape, the cane toad consistently rates as the most despised exotic pest, rivalled only by the feral cat.

Toni O’Loughlin

We often see animals appearing to move in unison, such as bison or fish. However, what looks like a team effort is in fact each animal jostling to get to the middle of the group to evade predators.
By contrast, an ant nest or a beehive can behave as a united organism in its own right. In a beehive, the workers are happy to help the community, even to die, because the queen carries and passes on their genes. However, superorganisms are quite rare, and only exist when the internal conflict within a social group is suppressed - so we cannot use this term, for example, to describe human societies.

Blair used Fatboy Slim’s “Praise You” as his walk-on song for the 1999 Labour Party conference. For some commentators, its lyric “I have to praise you like I should” represented Blair’s increasingly presidential style: a superstar theme for a superstar prime minister. The Independent’s Anne McElvoy was appalled. “It was pure führermusik,” she said.

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