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labour | election | party | gordon brown | wendy alexander What now for Brown?
Paul Linford

Martin Kettle thinks Labour MPs should tell him: "In the name of God, go." The Observer, slightly more charitably, thinks he should now focus on trying to devote himself to one or two core policy areas, in the hope that, should he lose in 2010, he...

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hillary clinton | indiana | north carolina | barack obama | democratic Obama-Edwards: A winning ...
Eric Lee

It's the morning after the Indiana and North Carolina primaries. It now seems pretty clear to everyone that Barack Obama is going to be the Democratic nominee for President. The question now is -- what can we do to ensure that he defeats John McCa...

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may 2008 | 8th may | rochester south | lab 819 | con 1847 Letter to the Vietnamese ...
Eric Avebury

From Lord Avebury May 6, 2008Excellencies,On 13-17 May 2008, your government will host the 5th United Nations’ Day of the Vesak in Hanoi. This should be a happy occasion, a day to remember Buddha’s message of tolerance and peace, and to in...

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cyclone nargis | protect' | burmese | allow aid | burma cyclone How to help the people of...
normblog

The email below was circulated by Mary Callahan, a Burma specialist at the University of Washington, and has reached me via a friend:A number of friends and colleagues have asked how to help the people of Burma in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis. Th...

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premier league | teams | precincts follow | missing precincts | indiana too Should the Premiership Ha...
EPL Talk

There are those out there who believe the answer to the question is a resounding “no”; in fact, the vast majority of people I talk to are firmly against the concept of playoffs in the Premiership. I hear the same arguments all the time:...

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bank holiday | hilton hotel | holiday weekend | commemorating labor | monday Trying to get away for th...
Foreign Perspectives

One of the regular nightmares that seems to get worse every year is the business of getting away for the bank holiday weekends. We all know that the roads will be full, the airports chaotic and the ferry queue backed up yet for just about every bank...

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post office | post offices | regulator postcomm | saturdays | deliveries MING VOWS TO FIGHT AGAINS...
Sir Menzies Campbell MP

North East Fife’s Liberal Democrat Parliamentarians Sir Menzies Campbell MP and Iain Smith MSP have vowed to fight against any Post Office closures in North East Fife. Liberal Democrat MP’s including Menzies Campbell campaigned to stop the governmen...

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tv addicts | drinking reality | england | nation overweight | binge A Guide to Briton
Disillusioned Discordian

Drawing deeply on the well of inspiration that is the featured items on Yahoo’s homepage… actually my sense of the world is becoming strangely affected by this site. Yahooification if you will. Well some bright spark has come up with a guide to desc...

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israel's history | 60th anniversary | state israel | israel's 60 | israeli Fighting ‘anti-semi...
Pickled Politics

Johann Hari, to his immense credit, has come out fighting. A few weeks ago he wrote this piece for the Independent criticising Israel’s record of behaving towards Palestinians on its 60th anniversary. And why not? There has been plenty of posi...

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utter fiasco | billions pounds | cctv footage | police | truck hitting Big Brother's Utter Fiasc...
An Englishman's Castle

Britain's multi-billion-pound CCTV network 'an utter fiasco which has failed to cut crime' - Scotsman.com News BRITAIN'S network of CCTV cameras has been branded "an utter fiasco" for failing to cut crime, despite billions of pounds being spent on ...

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dismissal register | staff dismissal | national staff | aabc | business crime RickB
Ten Percent

BBC Jon Kelly- Workers accused of theft or damage could soon find themselves blacklisted on a register to be shared among employers. It will be good for profits but campaigners say innocent people could find it impossible to get another job. An onli...

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don't think | world premiere | slate's explainer | explainer answers | uklsq tv Countdown to Carrie
Stilettos at dawn

Roll on May 28 and the opening of the Sex And The City movie. I'm don't think I've been this excited about seeing a film since Titanic came out. Seriously! The girls and I are going to make a night of it, starting with cocktails at our current favou...

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gordon ramsay | gordon ramsay's | seasonal gordon | ramsay's office | ramsay does A recipe for disaster
EU Referendum

Whether it is Bono, or that self-important idiot Bob Geldof, celebs in their own way have done more damage to the developing world, and the reduction of third world poverty, than enough.Now, to add to the long line of brain-dead celebs out to do dam...

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vaccine opt | routine vaccinations | refuse routine | mmr | tough sanctions Call for vaccine opt-out ...
Christian quoter

BBC reports. "Tough sanctions are being proposed for parents who refuse routine vaccinations, such as MMR.In an article for the Fabian Society, leading public health expert Sir Sandy Macara called for child benefit to be linked with vaccination upt...

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safe labour | labour seat | gemma garrett | miss great | election Exclusive: Sensational ne...
Hunter and Shooter

Red Ken, turfed out by Boris last week, may be seeking greener pastures in Hornsey & Wood Green according to local Labour sources! How come?Well, it's no surprise that Haringey Labour activists are furious with their selected candidate, Karen Je...

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tamsin dunwoody | crewe | election | nantwich | dunwoody dunwoody Cameron's Crewe handicap
Conor's Commentary

An ICM poll in Crewe for the Mail on Sunday suggests that the Tories will win the by-election by a narrow margin on a 10% swing since the general election. But with the sort of poll leads they are scoring nationally, the Tories should be winning a b...

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london boris | mayor london | becomes mayor | 5f9jr5 | winning thursday's Boris Johnson is Mayor of...
Matt Buck's Hack Cartoons

Hack cartoons caricature of Mayor of London Boris Johnson.Well, he made it. Taking the liberty of speaking for my professional colleagues, I think I can say, we are all delighted - a walking caricature does make life easier to draw.UPDATE:There’s a...

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richard holme | lord holme | paddy | liberal | died Sad news
Cllr Fraser Macpherson - ...

Two leading LibDems have recently passed away and both made a huge contribution to our party:RAY MICHIEThe former MP for Argyll and Bute, Ray Michie, has died at the age of 74. The daughter of Lord and Lady Bannerman of Kildonan, she chaired the Sco...

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20 weeks | dear nadine | stages than | consider medical | limit Reminder Lobby Parliament...
Union Futures

Abortion Rights Lobby of Parliament 3-6pm 7th May followed by Meeting 7pm Committee room 10 www.abortionrights.org.uk Defend abortion rights- no attack on the 24 week time limit- for a woman's right to choose 3-6pm lobby of Parliament, ...

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nicolas sarkozy | withdrawn | eu president | backing tony | tony blair We stopped him!
Neil Clark

The BBC reports: Nicolas Sarkozy has withdrawn his backing of Tony Blair to become the first president of the European Union, senior sources have told the BBC. The French president is understood to have changed his mind after meeting German Chancell...

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british energy | nuclear power | utility edf | french utility | french swoop News Values Today
EU Referendum

With its usual unerring sense of what is really important in what is going on in the world, Channel Four News tonight devoted a very short item to the news that EDF, Electricite de France, is confident of buying British Energy. This company not onl...

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seeks surgery | stop hiccups | man seeks | chic collage | million times Man seeks surgery for non...
Nothing To Do With Arbroa...

A singer who estimates that he has hiccupped almost 10 million times in the last 15 months is to undergo an operation to cure him from the condition.Christopher Sands, 24, has tried all manner of remedies - ranging from old wives’ tales like eating ...

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tits cope | great tits | birds | warming great | britain seem Great tits and Jan's cock
Liberal England

Norfolk Blogger has quite rightly awarded Headline of the Week to the BBC for its:Great tits cope well with warmingMalcolm Redfellow's World Service also notes this story and goes on to inform us that the RSPB has banished the word "cock" from its w...

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last week's | weekend's cyclone | burma access | burma's slow | week's results Cheers Paul!
PoliticalHackUK

One nice thing I forgot to mention about last week's shenanigans at the Council House - lots of self-satisfied, smug Tories celebrating and a smattering of dejected Labour campaigners - was that I ran into Paul Dale of the Birmingham Post, who took ...

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does london | lasse does | mashup lasse | video sketch | london lasse green and yellow and blue
the wanderings of the b

I'm travelling from Leeds back to my little home town, London, and now that the broken window has been fixed, I've moved to a coach with air conditioning, and the wifi has started working, this train ride is quite a pleasant experience. I have a gla...

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city salute | princes william | spectacle later | forces' spectacle | attend forces' City Salute to the Armed ...
Aquila Victrix

At last evening's sunset pageant in the City of London, thousands of people came to thank the British Armed Forces and their families for the work they do and the sacrifices they have made on our behalf. Prominent in the crowd were Princes William a...

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testicular cancer | tory councillor | hatfield | it’s odder | headline summarises Complete Bollocks: Tory R...
Chris Paul: Labour of Lov...

This one is rather strange even by Daily Mail/Tory standards. A Walter Mitty Tory name of Darren Gilbert (right) apparently told his bosses at a Tesco depot that he had testicular cancer. He even produced a forged Harley street letter to this effect...

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james whale | talksport | whale sacked | vote | london mayoral Mountjoy
the wilted rose

It is outrageous that Talksport has sacked James Whale for urging voters to back Boris. This would not have happened had he or someone else said ‘vote Ken’, and a lot of broadcasters have basically been suggesting ‘vote LabourR...

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The BBC News website wins the People's Voice prize in the news category at this year's Webby Awards.......

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