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Parliament Invaders 2001 - An online game to get you into election mood; defend Parliament from the other party leaders, but watch out for the mad cow. [Requires Flash]
Euro Trashed - An illustrated, satirical critique of the economic and philosophical foundations of the European Union.
My Little Tony - Pony with Tony Blair's head gives answers (often dumb ones) to your political questions. [Requires Flash]
Splat the MP - Now you can egg your (least) favourite Party Leader, or even risk throwing one at Prescott. [Requires Flash]
DeadBrain - Award-winning daily news satire and humour.
Crouching Tony, Hidden Hague - Tomb Raider-style Flash game where you have a kung-fu fight between Hague and Blair.
Political Anagrams - 'Tony Blair' = 'Tory in Lab' and other anagrams of your favourite (or not) politicians and their parties.
sheepfarming.co.uk - Political views expressed through "objective and rational ranting".
Lord Bonkers' Diary - Comments on current politics and the Liberal Democrats by Lord Bonkers, who was allegedly Liberal MP for Rutland South-West between 1906 and 1910.
The Nigel Havers Alliance - A mock political party.
Steve Boyle writing - Topical comedy based on UK and international stories. Updated regularly.
The National Association of Ted Heath Burners - A campaign to burn Ted Heath (hopefully only in effigy) on November 5th, because he led the country into the European Economic Community.
I Am A Politician - Post pictures of politicians with your own captions.
The British Tractor Alliance - Spoof political party aiming to protect Britain from the "Evil Combine Harvesters of Armageddon".
Spinon - Satirical newsletter with animated cartoons and political games, including Egg Prescott, Political Football, Truth Test and the Ethical Foreign Policy Simulator. [Some games need Flash or Shockwave]
Camp Royalty - A fictional Prince William story.
Comedy Collective (UK) - BBC political sketches, scenes, songs and a complete BBC radio script from professional writers Jasmine Birtles, Kim Morrissey, Robert Priest, John Random, Ivan Shakespeare and Claire Storey.
The Political Cartoon Society - The art and history of the political cartoon, from Gillray to Steve Bell, with reviews, exhibition calendar and discussion board.
Dodgy Dossier - Satirises the dossier the British government used to justify the invasion of Iraq.
Conservatives Or Ormond John Enderbury Elton (COOJEE) - Satiricial right-wing political party who cherish the values of a 1950's Britain.
GibberBrit Party - Satirical site offering an alternative to the drab politics of today. Policies and the development of gibberish.
A Tony Blair Picture Story - Series of pictures of Tony Blair arranged into a fantasy story about him becoming a singer.
Statesman or Skatesman? - Humourous collection of letters and pictures from British peers and MPs. It includes funny photographs of Enoch Powell on a pogo stick, Edward Heath on a Skateboard, and Margaret Thatcher on a sleigh.
"God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) When women go wrong, men go right after them. -- Mae West This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks, in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on the fl The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. -- Salvador Dali The better part of valor is discretion. -- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Humour "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Mark Twain It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. - George Bernard Shaw Humour The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. -- Samuel Johnson "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein Humour "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. -- Lucille S. Harper Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. -- Thomas Jones Humour To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward. -- Margaret Fairless Barber Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. -- Thomas Carlyle Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life. -- Alvin Toffler "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw Humour Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. - Karl Wallenda Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. -- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter really Humour "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. -- Thomas Szasz Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. -- Oliver Herford "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed -- Kate Halverson Humour The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Is there life before death? -- Belfast Graffito Humour If we don't change the direction we are going, We are likely to end up where we are heading. -- Chinese saying It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. -- Rene Descartes "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Humour It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Mark Twain Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. -- Dean Inge "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Humour "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. -- Alfred A. Knopf As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. -- Proverbs 23:7 Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. -- Charles Du Bos Humour Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. -- George Bernard Shaw Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Humour Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty. -- Adair Lara "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true. -- Anon. People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion. -- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Humour Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then." -- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Humour The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society. -- C. Stacey Woods Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. -- Louise Hay The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana Humour Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. -- G. K. Chesterton If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Humour The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. -- Henry David Thoreau The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. -- Albert Einstein Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. -- George Washington When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. -- Buckminster Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. -- Thomas Carlyle Humour Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man. -- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting married And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable. -- Garry Trudeau Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. - Mark Twain Humour "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. -- Walt Disney He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln The first duty of love is to listen. -- Paul Tillich Humour You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. -- W. Somerset Maugham Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. -- Anonymous There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Humour The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. -- G. K. Chesterton I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. -- Noel Coward Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Oscar Wilde The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. -- Peter DeVries Humour One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. -- Sophocles When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Humour
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