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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...
No top-rank talks for Burma envoy via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari leaves Burma without meeting junta head Than Shwe or detained leader Aung San Suu...
Security high for Burma anniversary via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
The military authorities in Burma impose tight security in Rangoon on the 20th anniversary of the 1988...
New UN rights envoy visits Burma via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
The new UN human rights envoy for Burma, Tomas Ojea Quintana, is making his first visit to the military-ruled country....
Burma aid effort ‘requires $1bn’ via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
Relief and reconstruction work in Burma after Cyclone Nargis will cost at least $1bn, according to the UN and the regional body Asean....
Burma to dominate Asean summit via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
The annual summit of the Association of South East Asian Nations is to begin in Singapore, with Burma high on the agenda....
Total Wankers via Ten Percent
Total have pulled out of operations in Iran, meanwhile they continue to operate and justify their presence in Burma. Hey it’s just business, Burma makes money, Iran could be attacked thus investments would be hit so the bottom line says no. Ain’t capitalism grand?...
Burma blocks emergency telecoms via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
Two teams of emergency telecoms workers leave cyclone-hit Burma after their efforts are blocked....
Burma policy costs lives, says US via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
The US defence secretary says Burma is causing great loss of life by hindering international cyclone relief....
Burma seeks crucial aid donations via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
An international aid conference is convened in Burma, to raise funds to help cyclone survivors....
Minister sets out for Burma talks via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander travels to Burma for aid talks following Cyclone Nargis....
Sense and hot air on Burma via normblog
I was going to draw attention to the very same contrast: between the good sense of Timothy Garton Ash on responding to the situation in Burma and a post at Comment is Free by Martin Jacques, which... Well, never mind. Mick has saved me the trouble - he has the contrast and the...
UN head to Burma to urge more aid via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
UN chief Ban Ki-moon travels to Burma to urge military leaders to accept more aid for cyclone survivors....
Cyclone mourning begins in Burma via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
Burma begins official mourning for victims of Cyclone Nargis, as the regime starts to accept limited help....
Burma to mourn cyclone’s victims via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
Burma declares three days of mourning for victims of Cyclone Nargis, 14 days after it struck, state TV announces....
Burma neighbours in cyclone talks via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
South East Asian countries hold urgent talks on how to get aid to the victims of the cyclone in Burma....
Burma storm aid frustrations grow via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
Top aid officials ramp up pressure on Burma, as the military government insists it has cyclone aid under control....
Aid for Burma ‘must be monitored’ via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
Countries sending aid to Burma must monitor it closely to stop the junta seizing it, a rights group says....
UN chief to send envoy to Burma via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
Ban Ki-moon is to send a top official to Burma, where the UN says 2.5m people have been affected by the cyclone....
UN raises Burma cyclone estimate via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
The UN sharply increases to 2.5m its estimate of those in need in Burma, following Cyclone Nargis....
Burma via Cllr Fraser Macpherson - LibDem Councillor for Dundee's West End - www.dundeewestend.com
I spoke this morning with the Lord Provost about the deteriorating situation in Burma and this is a matter of great concern to both of us and millions of others across the world.I asked the LP if he can make a public appeal locally for the people of Dundee to help the people of Burma. He is very willing to do so. Dundonians always rally to help in circumstances like this and the Disasters Emergency Committee has a website where donations can be made : http://www.dec.org.uk/donate_now/Also on the subject of Burma, I received this yesterday :Dear Councillor Macpherson,Your blog about the crisis in Burma has been widely read and appreciated here in HelpAge International’s (HAI’s) office in London. You may wish also to be aware of our response to this tragedy. (Click on headline above to... First Burma aid plane from the UK via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
The first flight carrying aid from the UK to Burma is due to leave East Midlands airport....
EU official to press Burma on aid via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
The European Union is sending a top envoy to Burma to urge its military rulers to be more flexible on foreign aid....
EU top aid man granted Burma visa via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
EU Aid Commissioner Louis Michel is to travel to Burma after ministers called for free access for relief workers....
UN calls for Burma aid corridor via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
The UN urges the setting up of an air or sea corridor to channel aid to the victims of the cyclone in Burma....
Burma continues to reject help via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
The military government in Burma says it remains opposed to letting in foreign aid workers to help victims of the cyclone....
Cameron urges Burma aid drop via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
Aid should be dropped by air into Burma if access to the cyclone-hit country does not improve, David Cameron says....
Burma aid ‘nowhere near enough’ via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
Relief supplies reaching cyclone-hit Burma are vastly inadequate despite improving access, agencies say....
Scots group join Burma aid effort via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
A Scottish-based aid worker is heading to Burma, after securing a rare visa from the authorities....
Burma and Zimbabwe via Christian quoter
What do Burma and Zimbabwe have in common? Insecure, undemocratic and repressive rulers who do not act in the interests of their people. So the common people suffer when they could be helped. I pray for the suffering peoples of Burma and Zimbabwe and for the establishment of just, benign governments who will bring help to their lands....
Sporadic aid trickles into Burma via BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
Deliveries of aid to help Burma cyclone victims are arriving sporadically, as aid agencies continue to face obstacles....