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peter mandelson | sarah palin | sir ian | cabinet | gordon brown
Cameron: Tax Cuts Anyone?
KERRON CROSS - The Voice ...
Did you see Cameron's speech today? Let's look at the content in greater depth for a moment.Before Cameron came to the stage the Tories first rolled out a few PPCs to say, well, very little to the audience. Of course, they weren't actually their to ...
KERRON CROSS - The Voice ...
Did you see Cameron's speech today? Let's look at the content in greater depth for a moment.Before Cameron came to the stage the Tories first rolled out a few PPCs to say, well, very little to the audience. Of course, they weren't actually their to ...
nintendo dsi | ds lite | gadgets | popular handheld | touch screen
Latest Super Kid 4-Port U...
GadgetLite - Latest gadge...
What better way is there to teach your five-year old (geek to be) about what USB is than to use the Super Kid 4-Port USB Hub which looks much like a toy kid but just with flexible USB limbs! Ok, maybe not such a great idea, but the Super Kid 4-Port ...
GadgetLite - Latest gadge...
What better way is there to teach your five-year old (geek to be) about what USB is than to use the Super Kid 4-Port USB Hub which looks much like a toy kid but just with flexible USB limbs! Ok, maybe not such a great idea, but the Super Kid 4-Port ...
general election | david jack | jack selected | trent north | next general
Watch out Bournemouth Wes...
Anders Hanson
I supposed he was going to get selected eventually for somewhere, and finally it has happened. Conor Burns, the Conservative candidate vanquished by Chris Huhne at the last General Election in Eastleigh, has finally found himself another constituen...
Anders Hanson
I supposed he was going to get selected eventually for somewhere, and finally it has happened. Conor Burns, the Conservative candidate vanquished by Chris Huhne at the last General Election in Eastleigh, has finally found himself another constituen...
speed rail | heathrow | high speed | third runway | tories
Tories Runaway from Runwa...
Transport Crucible . com
Ardent rail fan Christian Wolmar is perhaps an unlikely critic of the Tory plan to build a High-Speed rail link, HS2, between London and Leeds – instead of a third runway between London Heathrow Airport and the rest of the world. But Christian says ...
Transport Crucible . com
Ardent rail fan Christian Wolmar is perhaps an unlikely critic of the Tory plan to build a High-Speed rail link, HS2, between London and Leeds – instead of a third runway between London Heathrow Airport and the rest of the world. But Christian says ...
retired gurkhas | gurkhas win | high court | test case | group retired
Gurkhas win right to stay...
Colin Ross News Stories
A group of retired Gurkhas fighting for the right to settle in Britain have won their immigration test case at London's High Court. They were challenging immigration rules which said that those who retired from the British Army before 1997 did not h...
Colin Ross News Stories
A group of retired Gurkhas fighting for the right to settle in Britain have won their immigration test case at London's High Court. They were challenging immigration rules which said that those who retired from the British Army before 1997 did not h...
government reshuffle | sion simon | quentin davies | skills minister | new minister
In the small print of the...
Little's Log
With all the fuss about the return of the Prince of Darkness (isn't that one of the Harry Potter books? Maybe JK had more influence for her million than we thought) a few stories about life in the middle and junior ranks of the government have been ...
Little's Log
With all the fuss about the return of the Prince of Darkness (isn't that one of the Harry Potter books? Maybe JK had more influence for her million than we thought) a few stories about life in the middle and junior ranks of the government have been ...
wall street | channel 4 | 700billion dollar | 4 news | women wall
Priceless
Ten Percent
And now a news report with added comments from Archbishop Olly Garrke of the Church of the Free Market for your reading pleasure- Fears are mounting that many Wall Street banks and financial firms will refuse to participate in the US government̵...
Ten Percent
And now a news report with added comments from Archbishop Olly Garrke of the Church of the Free Market for your reading pleasure- Fears are mounting that many Wall Street banks and financial firms will refuse to participate in the US government̵...
zenit st | win | st petersburg | champions league | football
Back In Black
Hail Gunners - "It's Gunn...
Arsene Wenger had demanded an ardent response from his team following the shock 2-1 defeat at the hands of Hull, and they delivered in irresistible fashion. Whatever was said on the training ground prior to the match by Le Boss appeared to work as A...
Hail Gunners - "It's Gunn...
Arsene Wenger had demanded an ardent response from his team following the shock 2-1 defeat at the hands of Hull, and they delivered in irresistible fashion. Whatever was said on the training ground prior to the match by Le Boss appeared to work as A...
child poverty | end child | brink poverty | government | million children
Keep The Promise, London,...
ecomonkey
From: Save The Children"What's blue and white but makes a noise like thunder? It's the sound of thousands of thunder sticks banging together at the UK's biggest ever event to end child poverty.We need you to help us make a noise so loud the governme...
ecomonkey
From: Save The Children"What's blue and white but makes a noise like thunder? It's the sound of thousands of thunder sticks banging together at the UK's biggest ever event to end child poverty.We need you to help us make a noise so loud the governme...
school meals | free school | english opinion | snp | scottish government
Something for nothing
Ideas of Civilisation
Well that was simple then. All Scottish school children will receive free school meals from now on, because the Scottish Government have said they can.The only downside is the minor problem of councils not having the money to pay for this, and the S...
Ideas of Civilisation
Well that was simple then. All Scottish school children will receive free school meals from now on, because the Scottish Government have said they can.The only downside is the minor problem of councils not having the money to pay for this, and the S...
october 2008 | 4th october | 3 october | springfield park | fair usage
Students will move into f...
A blog for Finsbury Park
[from Islington Tribune] Islington Tribune - by TOM FOOT Published: 3 October 2008 Students will move into former factory A FORMER tonic wine factory in Finsbury Park is to be turned into a 56-bed student home. Councillors on east area pla...
A blog for Finsbury Park
[from Islington Tribune] Islington Tribune - by TOM FOOT Published: 3 October 2008 Students will move into former factory A FORMER tonic wine factory in Finsbury Park is to be turned into a 56-bed student home. Councillors on east area pla...
jim murphy | reshuffle | scottish secretary | department food | new secretary
Mandelson´s Return
Conor's Commentary
Mendoza, Argentina - Peter Mandelson´s return to the cabinet was on the front of the excellent English language Buenos Aires Herald this morning (though it was being ignored as is usual with UK politics on BBC World News) where we started a fortnigh...
Conor's Commentary
Mendoza, Argentina - Peter Mandelson´s return to the cabinet was on the front of the excellent English language Buenos Aires Herald this morning (though it was being ignored as is usual with UK politics on BBC World News) where we started a fortnigh...
yelland | bnp badge | greater manchester | mi5 computer | sun editor
Guido Fawkes: Wrong About...
Chris Paul: Labour of Lov...
Guido Fawkes ran an apparently spoof Sky story about "David Yelland* to Number 10" more than four hours ago. Corrected by Adam Boulton within a few minutes. But not be Guido. * Former Sun editor.Still, there are some interesting comments there, incl...
Chris Paul: Labour of Lov...
Guido Fawkes ran an apparently spoof Sky story about "David Yelland* to Number 10" more than four hours ago. Corrected by Adam Boulton within a few minutes. But not be Guido. * Former Sun editor.Still, there are some interesting comments there, incl...
snp activists | john prescott | john prescott's | former deputy | prescott's message
UK Politics Gets Back To ...
KERRON CROSS - The Voice ...
You wait two and a bit months for an MP to arrive in Westminster and then 650 turn up at once.And so it was today, if you don't count the swarms of MPs dashing around Glenrothes ahead of the by-election, as the Honourable Members tore themselves aw...
KERRON CROSS - The Voice ...
You wait two and a bit months for an MP to arrive in Westminster and then 650 turn up at once.And so it was today, if you don't count the swarms of MPs dashing around Glenrothes ahead of the by-election, as the Honourable Members tore themselves aw...
nuclear attack | bbc | 1970s | wartime broadcasting | stay
Those Were The Days
Ten Percent
BBC TRANSCIPT TO BE USED IN WAKE OF NUCLEAR ATTACK This is the Wartime Broadcasting Service. This country has been attacked with nuclear weapons. Communications have been severely disrupted, and the number of casualties and the extent of the dam...
Ten Percent
BBC TRANSCIPT TO BE USED IN WAKE OF NUCLEAR ATTACK This is the Wartime Broadcasting Service. This country has been attacked with nuclear weapons. Communications have been severely disrupted, and the number of casualties and the extent of the dam...
royalty board | copyright royalty | itunes store | apple threatens | shut
Apple threatens to shut d...
Latest news, sport, busin...
While we're on the subject of music royalty rates… Apple says it might pull the plug on its uber-popular iTunes store if the Copyright Royalty Board jacks up the amount it owes per track that it sells. Yep, the company made the "don't come near me o...
Latest news, sport, busin...
While we're on the subject of music royalty rates… Apple says it might pull the plug on its uber-popular iTunes store if the Copyright Royalty Board jacks up the amount it owes per track that it sells. Yep, the company made the "don't come near me o...
working class | locallife wolverhampton | class wolverhampton | class area | fourth most
Why getting back our core...
New Direction
I'm not a fan of being told that I'm lurching, and certianly not a fan of being told that I'm retreating; particularly when this moniker applies because the label chucker in question lacks the fortitude or confidence in the election to suggest measu...
New Direction
I'm not a fan of being told that I'm lurching, and certianly not a fan of being told that I'm retreating; particularly when this moniker applies because the label chucker in question lacks the fortitude or confidence in the election to suggest measu...
newcastle united | mike ashley | club | press conference | african consortium
Newcastle United: Joe Kin...
Anorak News
ANORAK used to attend many football press conferences. The following is an edited transcript of Newcastle interim manager Joe Kinnear’s first official press conference yesterday, as provided by the Guardian: JK Which one is Simon Bird [Daily ...
Anorak News
ANORAK used to attend many football press conferences. The following is an edited transcript of Newcastle interim manager Joe Kinnear’s first official press conference yesterday, as provided by the Guardian: JK Which one is Simon Bird [Daily ...
gas emissions | greenhouse gas | cut | climate change | meat
"Now what the fuck...
The Devil's Kitchen
... is this shit?" is a phrase that I seem increasingly prone to using because nothing else will do.So, via The Longrider, seriously, what the fuck is this shit?Consumers will have to satisfy themselves with four small portions of meat and one litre...
The Devil's Kitchen
... is this shit?" is a phrase that I seem increasingly prone to using because nothing else will do.So, via The Longrider, seriously, what the fuck is this shit?Consumers will have to satisfy themselves with four small portions of meat and one litre...
brideshead revisited | coronation street | revisited emma | photo hunter | masters giving
Boris Johnson, David Came...
Liberal England
Prompted by the new film version, Peter Bradshaw writes about the effect of the 1980s television adaptation of Brideshead Revisited on a generation of young Tories:A whole generation of appalling 80s Oxbridge hoorays, culminating in the Bullingdon C...
Liberal England
Prompted by the new film version, Peter Bradshaw writes about the effect of the 1980s television adaptation of Brideshead Revisited on a generation of young Tories:A whole generation of appalling 80s Oxbridge hoorays, culminating in the Bullingdon C...
global warming | climate | below 2°c | biden's comment | warming below
Time to come to our sense...
An Englishman's Castle
Global warming: why cut one 3,000th of a degree? | Bjørn Lomborg - Times Online Britain's efforts to reduce the speed of global warming will cost huge sums of money and have a pitifully tiny effect ....The British Government estimates the cumulati...
An Englishman's Castle
Global warming: why cut one 3,000th of a degree? | Bjørn Lomborg - Times Online Britain's efforts to reduce the speed of global warming will cost huge sums of money and have a pitifully tiny effect ....The British Government estimates the cumulati...
robert peston | ten blogging | blogging commandments | evangelical alliance | guilty commandment
The Ten Commandments of B...
KERRON CROSS - The Voice ...
Well done to the Evangelical Alliance for coming up with The Ten Blogging Commandments.I also like the idea that they are: "Based loosely on the real Ten Commandments from the Old Testament". (Very much in the same way that Titanic with Leonardo Di...
KERRON CROSS - The Voice ...
Well done to the Evangelical Alliance for coming up with The Ten Blogging Commandments.I also like the idea that they are: "Based loosely on the real Ten Commandments from the Old Testament". (Very much in the same way that Titanic with Leonardo Di...
v biden | palin v | sarah palin's | biden open | tom harris
Reshuffle (2): Tom Harris
peezedtee
Who knows what was in Gordon Brown's mind when he sacked Tom Harris from the government over the weekend: these things often seem unfathomable, with pretty useless people being promoted while manifest talent is left to rot on the back benches. It w...
peezedtee
Who knows what was in Gordon Brown's mind when he sacked Tom Harris from the government over the weekend: these things often seem unfathomable, with pretty useless people being promoted while manifest talent is left to rot on the back benches. It w...
5 october | sunday 5 | eamonn morrisey | course flann | pint plain
The Night of the Hunter a...
Brockley Central
The new film club at the Brockley Jack Theatre has got off to a great start, with an eclectic, but not too self-conscious choice of films.Gregor Murbach, who got the club up and running writes:Our next film, The Night of the Hunter, will be shown on...
Brockley Central
The new film club at the Brockley Jack Theatre has got off to a great start, with an eclectic, but not too self-conscious choice of films.Gregor Murbach, who got the club up and running writes:Our next film, The Night of the Hunter, will be shown on...
guilty armed | oj simpson | las vegas | sports memorabilia | armed heist
OJ’S CASES WEREN’T OPEN A...
CALEDONIAN COMMENT
So OJ Simpson has been found guilty of kidnapping and armed robbery in Las Vegas. An all-white jury of nine women and three men unanimously found him guilty of all 12 charges after more than 13 continuous hours of deliberations, which started 13 ye...
CALEDONIAN COMMENT
So OJ Simpson has been found guilty of kidnapping and armed robbery in Las Vegas. An all-white jury of nine women and three men unanimously found him guilty of all 12 charges after more than 13 continuous hours of deliberations, which started 13 ye...
paul newman | newman broadway | broadway theatres | curtain time | week aged
Old blue eyes didn’t get…
Toxic Web
…his due yesterday. Having put up my usual Monday post about the ineptness of the Spurs board, management and players and then following that up with Moose finally winning his 20th I forgot to post about Paul Newman dying. One of the last grea...
Toxic Web
…his due yesterday. Having put up my usual Monday post about the ineptness of the Spurs board, management and players and then following that up with Moose finally winning his 20th I forgot to post about Paul Newman dying. One of the last grea...
nigel farage | interviewing nigel | farage later | splendid dan | question time
Question time: open threa...
Liberal Democrat Voice
BBC1, 10.35pm Tonight’s edition comes from Birmingham (because the Beeb block-booked their hotel for the whole week presumably), so if you’re watching feel free to sound off in the comments thread. And if you’re not watching, it&#...
Liberal Democrat Voice
BBC1, 10.35pm Tonight’s edition comes from Birmingham (because the Beeb block-booked their hotel for the whole week presumably), so if you’re watching feel free to sound off in the comments thread. And if you’re not watching, it&#...
internet blog | peter mullen | rev peter | homosexuals | slogan sodomy
Nazi Scum Alive And Well ...
Walk This World With Me
I feel that members of a church headed by Her Majesty should show a little more decorum and not display arrogant, Nazi-lite tendencies . A supposed man of God has suggested a solution to the homosexual question..."Let us make it obligatory for homos...
Walk This World With Me
I feel that members of a church headed by Her Majesty should show a little more decorum and not display arrogant, Nazi-lite tendencies . A supposed man of God has suggested a solution to the homosexual question..."Let us make it obligatory for homos...
pounds services | provide millions | fighting marginal | party breaking | electoral commission
Tories did not break elec...
Peter Black AM
The decision by the Electoral Commission to clear the Conservative party of breaking electoral law by using a commercial company as a front to provide millions of pounds of services to Tories fighting marginal seats is no surprise. After all the Lab...
Peter Black AM
The decision by the Electoral Commission to clear the Conservative party of breaking electoral law by using a commercial company as a front to provide millions of pounds of services to Tories fighting marginal seats is no surprise. After all the Lab...
against barack | union leader | derail darfur | bashir warning | battlefield states
End Of Part One
peezedtee
My mention in passing this morning of Brian Walden reminded me to look out this very funny clip from a now completely forgotten TV comedy show of the early 1980s called End Of Part One.To get the most out of this, you have to be old enough to rememb...
peezedtee
My mention in passing this morning of Brian Walden reminded me to look out this very funny clip from a now completely forgotten TV comedy show of the early 1980s called End Of Part One.To get the most out of this, you have to be old enough to rememb...
Shoppers killed by Somali shells via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
Shells are fired at Mogadishu's main market, leaving at least 15 people dead, witnesses...
Mitterand in the dock via The Croydonian
Sadly it is not Le Sphinx who is suffering the posthumous fate of Oliver Cromwell, but rather Mitterand jr, who is up before the French beaks"accused of acting as go-betweens for illegal arms deliveries from Eastern Europe [to Angola]". SourceStill, one must take revenge where one finds...
Somalia is ‘most ignored tragedy’ via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
The world should be shocked at the systematic destruction of Mogadishu and its residents, says lobby group Human Rights...
Ghost city via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
The eerie lack of people in war-torn...
EU to open ‘job centre’ in Africa via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
The EU is to open a "job centre" in Mali, hoping fewer young Africans will risk their lives to go to...
No more kids via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
Goat 'condoms' used to protect Kenyan...
Militants ‘free’ Nigeria hostages via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
Nineteen Nigerian oil workers are released two week after being seized, the militants...
Zimbabwe unity cabinet talks fail via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and new Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai fail to agree on a unity...
Ethiopia frees Kenyan ‘Islamists’ via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
Ethiopia allows eight Kenyan men jailed as terror suspects to return to their homes after more than a year in...
Russia call to halt Somali piracy via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
Russia's foreign minister calls for joint international action to halt Somali pirate attacks off the Horn of...
Kenya anger at electoral pressure via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
Kenya sends protest notes to the US and EU after diplomats said the electoral commissioner should...
Bashir warning on Darfur charges via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
Sudan's leader says attempts to indict him for war crimes could derail Darfur peace efforts and destabilise the...
Congo rebel ‘to expand rebellion’ via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
Rebel Laurent Nkunda says he wants to "liberate" the whole of DR Congo, expanding his rebellion from the...
EU force to fight Somali pirates via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
A least eight European countries are to form a maritime security force to fight Somali piracy, France...
Somalia piracy ‘costing millions’ via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
Piracy off the coast of Somalia has cost up to $30m (£17m) in ransoms so far this year, a report...
UN warns over Zimbabwe food aid via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
Half the population of Zimbabwe could soon be in need of constant aid, the UN's humanitarian chief tells the...
Harare diary via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
Zimbabweans' dream is slowly slipping...
Somali pirates ‘in ransom talks’ via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
Pirates who hijacked a tank-laden ship are in negotiations with its owners, the Somali government...
US Africom ‘has no hidden agenda’ via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
The head of the new US military Africa command says it has "no hidden agenda" as it becomes fully...
Interview with a Pirate via How This Old Brit Sees It ...
Somali pirates: more political awareness, less yo-ho-ho
You may have been following the saga of the Ukranian weapons ship that was taken by pirates off the coast of Somalia. The ship contained military arms, including tanks, that were to be delivered to the government of either Kenya or Sudan. The pirates now find themselves being tracked at sea by the American and Russian navies, and they...
Cool reception via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
US Africa command battles scepticism as it begins...
Uganda: Starve rebels for peace via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
Uganda's government urges aid agencies to stop supplying food to rebels so they sign a...
S Africa’s ANC ‘will not split’ via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
South Africa's Finance Minister Trevor Manuel dismisses rumours of a split within the ruling...
Shoot-out on hijacked Somali ship via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
Rival Somali pirates shot at each other onboard a hijacked cargo ship loaded with 33 tanks, a maritime group...
US surrounds hijacked tank ship via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
The US navy says it has deployed further vessels to surround a cargo ship loaded with 33 tanks that was hijacked by...
Ivorians tried for mass poisoning via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
Twelve people go on trial in Ivory Coast over their alleged involvement in dumping toxic waste blamed for 17...
Warships surround Somali pirates via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
Somali pirates holding a ship carrying tanks and weapons say they are surrounded by at least three foreign...
Kidnapped tourists ‘not in Chad’ via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
Chad denies claims that a group of foreign hostages is being held in its territory, fuelling uncertainty about the tourists'...
US destroyer nears Somali pirates via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
A US destroyer establishes visual contact with a Ukrainian ship seized by Somali pirates, and carrying...
The Ubiquitous Blair: “… the day you retire is the day you die” via Tony Blair
Home
Blair (with reference to his 2005 Gleneagles initiative) - ‘Rich nations not keeping their promises to Africa’ . Britain HAS, though … to those who haven’t noticed!
Blair Praises BOTH U.S. Presidential Candidates
Full sprint in Mid-East diplomacy marathon
Matthew Parris give us the benefit of his contradictory thoughts on Blair & Brown Read my thoughts on Parris’s article here
Condi Rice at UN: harsh words for Iran’s declaration that Israel “should not exist”
Blair calls on Israel & Palestinians to ‘make every effort for peace’ by year’s end
Livni’s chance? It could be that she will not be too concerned about a delay in a settlement, for obvious reasons
Comment at end
27th September, 2008
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