Next time someone tells you they are conservative, in favour of a small state, of personal freedom, of liberty, ask them their views on Dale Farm

Two columns of riot police, shields in position, carrying ladders and armed with tasers, cresting a hill under cover of darkness. A single, stark, sandblasted house in the background; the inhabitants, one imagines, peering out of the windows in confusion and fear.

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It Gets Better, Now in Book Form! Plus David Cameron says 'It Gets Better,' too. On tape.

So now, if that bigoted, hateful relative of yours was too hateful to figure out how to open a YouTube, you can cram your message of positivity down his throat in easy to digest, old-timey printed format.

Some notable hobbies of British Prime Ministers, as stated on the Number 10 website

People With Least Significant Job in City Surprisingly Willing to Have Picture in Paper

Marvel at the seriousness with which nightclub door-pickers take themselves and their meaningless jobs.

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