you kidding me?
The real question is not whether there is intelligent life beyond earth, but whether there is such a thing on earth itself*. We can strike off Britain from the list of probables now. Via Tacitus contributor Macallan.

On Tuesday, Blunkett will fight in the Royal Courts of Justice in London for the right to charge victims of miscarriages of justice more than £3000 for every year they spent in jail while wrongly convicted. The logic is that the innocent man shouldn’t have been in prison eating free porridge and sleeping for nothing under regulation grey blankets.

*This is not an original quote, read something similar somewhere, not sure by who though.
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