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Bryan Jackson: Hearts’ Euro strife nothing to admin horror

Edit Scotsman 23 Jul 2016
To a section of the support on the outside, Neilson should now be defenestrated through presiding over an unforgivable 2-1 defeat at Tynecastle the other night – a reverse that allowed their opponents to reach a third qualifying round in Europe for the first time in 19 attempts. Hearts crashed out to Birkirkara in the Europa League. Pic. SNS. All of a sudden the Gorgie club are experiencing real summer strife ... People like Budge, indeed ... ....

David Cameron Leaves Office With the U.K. Unstable and Uncertain

Edit Time Magazine 12 Jul 2016
On Tuesday morning David Cameron was “banged in” to his 215th and final cabinet meeting. On Wednesday, he will answer questions as Prime Minister for the last time. Then he will travel from the House of Commons to Buckingham Palace and formally hand Queen Elizabeth his letter of resignation ... Ever since the Iron Lady’s defenestration in 1990, the Tory party has been divided on the European question ... If the E.U ... countries....

Game Of Thrones: the best moments so far

Edit Empire 11 Jul 2016
Today marked the first week for a while where we didn't have an episode of Game Of Thrones to wake up to. So, as we beign the long waid until the show returns next year, Empire looks back, in no particular order, at some of our favourite moments so far. Spoilers obviously follow!. Bran gets defenestrated. Arguably the first really surprising moment. both in the TV series and the novels ... The golden crown ... Ned Stark loses his head ... People....

Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale: ‘I don’t want to choose between two unions’

Edit The Guardian 11 Jul 2016
@StephenMossGdn ... Scotland used to be a Labour fiefdom; now the party is fighting for its life ... The premise is a good one ... Related. Dugdale ... I chose to step up ... members of Momentum attend the meeting and make their points (to loud applause) in the Q&A session that follows Dugdale’s speech, and afterwards she chats happily to them, welcoming one new member who says she has joined to protect Corbyn from those seeking to defenestrate him ... ....

Brussels briefing: Brexit treachery

Edit Financial Times 01 Jul 2016
... a “cuckoo nest plot” – this is a political assassination that will go into Conservative party lore alongside the defenestration of Margaret Thatcher....

Newspapers draw on Shakespeare to report Gove's knifing of Johnson

Edit The Guardian 01 Jul 2016
Roy Greenslade. The play’s the thing for editors trying to describe the act of betrayal that killed off Boris’s hopes of becoming Conservative party leader and prime minister. Contact author. @GreensladeR. Et tu, Michael? Et tu, Gove? Et tu, Brute? One of Shakespeare’s most famous lines was favoured by several journalists, on TV and radio as well as in newspapers, to describe the defenestration of Boris Johnson ... “Justice!” ... Ah yes ... ....

After Being Electrocuted and Defenestrated, Mace Windu Apparently Got Better

Edit Gizmodo 30 Jun 2016
Samuel L. Jackson is refusing to accept that his Star Wars character may well be dead ... ....

Revolution cancelled

Edit The Economist 30 Jun 2016
THE idea of re-running a vote when the first result is unsatisfactory has been getting a bad press recently ... The election’s big surprise was that Podemos, a new far-left party dedicated to reversing austerity and defenestrating the traditional political class, stalled ... But it felt like a victory for Pedro... ....

Star Wars fan theory: was Mace Windu secretly in The Force Awakens?

Edit Digital Spy 30 Jun 2016
Samuel L Jackson's vociferous insistence that his Star Wars character, Mace Windu, is still alive has got us thinking ... Contains wild speculation on Star Wars Episode 8 and beyond.) No, we don't mean that he is Rey's father ... The corruption of Ben Solo and persecution of Luke and Leia could be explained as revenge for Anakin Skywalker's betrayal and the whole unfortunate dismemberment/defenestration thing ... ....

Post-Vote Eurocrats Want to Rush Brits Out the Door

Edit The American Spectator 28 Jun 2016
The European Union’s leaders said they wanted the United Kingdom to remain in the EU. But Brussels offered only minimal concessions to British Prime Minister David Cameron, undercutting his effort to sell the benefits of continued EU membership ... London should refuse to play their game ... And if no agreement is reached within two years the country is unceremoniously defenestrated without any special access to the European market ... The U.S ... ....

'Game of Thrones' just fulfilled a prophecy teased back in season 5

Edit Business Insider 27 Jun 2016
HBO. Warning. Major spoilers ahead for "Game of Thrones" season six. Sticking to its brutal reputation, "Game of Thrones" just delivered a bloody (or should we say charred?) finale episode ... Tommen committed self-defenestration shortly thereafter, flinging himself from his bedroom window in the Red Keep while Cersei was busy having Septa Unella tortured. HBO ... Cersei's two other children were murdered, and she was beside herself over it ... HBO....

That brutal scene on Sunday's 'Game of Thrones' was adapted perfectly from the books

Edit Business Insider 27 Jun 2016
HBO. WARNING. Spoilers ahead for "Game of Thrones" season six. The season finale of "Game of Thrones" felt like one shocking death after the next. Whether it was Septa Unella's violent demise at the hands of the Mountain or Tommen's self-defenestration death that fulfilled a prophecy from the series, there was a lot for both book and show fans to squeal over ... HBO ... "Your little birds now your Grace," Qyburn corrects her to Cersei's delight....

Italy 2-0 Spain: Classy Azzurri herald end of an era

Edit Scotsman 27 Jun 2016
Perhaps Spain’s reign really is over. Their time as European champions is most certainly terminated after this deserved defeat to classy Italy, who now face another heavyweight in Germany in the last eight. But it truly could be the end of an era where Spain have re-shaped football's landscape ... He intends to speak first with Angel Maria Villar, the Spanish football federation president ... Rather this felt like a defenestration ... ITALY....
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