The victory follows hot on the heels of the paper’s ‘Say no to badger baiting,’ and ‘End child chimneysweep scandal now!’ campaigns. ‘This is another triumph for our incredibly-worthy-but-also-slightly-dull style of campaigning’ exclaimed Independent editor Chris Blackhurst.
Posted: May 17th, 2012
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Posted: May 11th, 2012
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The CAPTCHA online security system has scored its first major victory after a man in Surrey realised that he was not, in fact, a human doing some online shopping, but was in fact an irritating spambot hellbent on annoying millions of people with poorly-spelt emails.
Posted: Apr 17th, 2012
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A major new campaign to roll back the so-called ‘nanny state’ has been pulled after only two weeks. The multi-million pound campaign ‘No to Nasty Nanny Oversight!’ (NNNO!) was pulled following extensive market research showing that the ‘proud British public’ had no idea who or what a ‘nanny’ was, or indeed why it was such a bad idea to have them running the country.
Posted: Mar 15th, 2012
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Posted: Mar 11th, 2012
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