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  • Unctuous and oily, mackerel are also high in omega-3 fatty acids.

    Miso Broiled Mackerel with Potatoes & Spinach 2010

  • I realized long ago that he was a particularly Unctuous Little Squirt.

    Archive 2007-10-14 2007

  • If the latter wins the next election, there will still be no place for him in government and if Labour succumb, then he plainly has no taste for a possibly lengthy stretch on the Opposition Benches sucking up to The Unctuous Little Squirt Milliband or whoever inherits the mantle.

    Archive 2007-09-09 2007

  • They started to make plans, or at least an Unctuous Little Squirt called David Miliband did, for the next ten years in government.

    Archive 2007-10-07 2007

  • As they have been planning, according to David Miliband, the next ten years of Labour Government (a remark that the Unctuous Little Squirt may yet come greatly to rue) and playing their mind games, the interests of the nation have been studiously ignored.

    A Deep Yellow Streak? 2007

  • Right in the middle of any election campaign Brown and the Unctuous Little Squirt Milliband will have to go off to Lisbon there to sign away UK independence once more or do a stunning U-Turn and announce that we can have our say after all (with all the damage to his standing that implies).

    Archive 2007-09-23 2007

  • Unctuous, oleaginous, smarmy -- why does he get reelected?

    Top Lieberman Campaign Official: We Begged Obama For Help In 2006 -- And He Came Through 2009

  • I realized long ago that he was a particularly Unctuous Little Squirt.

    Some Euro Gobbets 2007

  • They started to make plans, or at least an Unctuous Little Squirt called David Miliband did, for the next ten years in government.

    Volcano Erupts & Mocking Birds Sing 2007

  • Right in the middle of any election campaign Brown and the Unctuous Little Squirt Milliband will have to go off to Lisbon there to sign away UK independence once more or do a stunning U-Turn and announce that we can have our say after all (with all the damage to his standing that implies).

    A Damaging Non-Election 2007

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