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Listed below are comments made by antiquary between Friday, 13th June 2008 and Tuesday, 23rd June 2009.

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The Speaker Week winner: 4:54pm on 23 Jun 2009 Sigh, why is it that some people can only think that there is 'Daily Mail' and 'not Daily Mail'? Just stop reading the Daily Mail and the Guardian.

I didn't vote for Tim Collins, not because I thought he was just full of soundbites, he wasn't - but the listeners have voted for a real outsider, which neither Greg Dyke nor Lord Carey could claim to be, and that seems sensible given the real vote for the speaker.

As for the editor's brief 'to find people who make you want to turn the radio up when they start speaking', well done, except for A.L. Kennedy who really is the opposite.
It's Speaker Week on PM. Read Greg Dyke's ideas here. 5:59pm on 19 Jun 2009 Why mess around with the system? It's people that misbehaved. What doesn't help is the culture of not apportioning responsibility in the first place, which is leading to hysterical finger-pointing and witch-hunts.

David Mitchell summed it up brilliantly on Have I Got News For You: So essentially they are saying This swimming pool is full of piss, therefore swimming pools are a bad idea. Not, Weve been pissing in the swimming pool."
A divisive Davis? 11:18am on 13 Jun 2008 The point is that you should also be giving us 10 reasons why this all might be a dream for the Conservative party.

Try to apply your cynical analysis of politicians to yourself and see how wrong-footed and desperate this listing makes you appear.

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