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political blogs | iain | top | toptenblogs | totalpolitics Iain Dale: 2008-9 Guide t...
Daily Referendum

From Iain Dale:In early September TOTAL POLITICS, in association with APCO WORLDWIDE will publish the 2008-9 Guide to Political Blogging in the UK. It will contain articles on blogging by some of Britain's leading bloggers, together with a directory...

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Ideas of Civilisation

Well, it's almost upon us. The Glasgow East by-election is tomorrow. Finally the good people of communities such as Parkhead, Ballieston, Easterhouse and Shettleston can look forward to getting back to their everyday lives without the ever present t...

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Tags: Nick Clegg, tax, gordon brown, labour, Glasgow East, Scotland, liberal democrats, david cameron, Labour Party, Politics, Iain Dale, alex salmond, Lib Dems, Make It Happen, unionism

radovan karadzic | war crimes | bosnian serb | karadzic arrested | serbia WILL BUSH AND BLAIR GET N...
CALEDONIAN COMMENT

Arrested war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic ( pictured above left ) grew a long, white beard to conceal his identity and practised alternative medicine while in hiding . The former Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic ( pictured above ...

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knife crime | british crime | crime survey | police | offences Damned Lies and Crime Sta...
Iain Dale's Diary

Last night on Sky we covered the British Crime Survey, in which crime is reported to be falling all over the country, and in virtually every category bar drugs and gun crime. I made the point that most people watching would find the statistics hard ...

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Tags: crime, Crime and punishment, photos, police, New Statesman, law and order, london, People, events, UK Politics 5, youth, festival, lewisham, Islington, tabloids

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ORGANIZED RAGE

Howard Zinn of the excellent Z. Communication * web site has sent the memo below to the two US presidential candidates, Barack Obama and John McCain. It is worth reading as many on the left having been caught up in the original enthusiasm for Barack...

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james purnell | welfare reforms | james purnell's | benefits | transform lives Welfare Reform
Burning our money

One small stepOn the face of it we should join the Tories in welcoming the welfare reforms announced yesterday by James Purnell. The headline reforms are:Incapacity benefit to be scrapped... well, actually, no - it's just being renamed to the Employ...

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Tags: James Purnell, Politics, Welfare, Employment, Labour leadership, labour, Harold Macmillan, Benefits, facial hair, Frank Field, sideburns, job centre, incapacity benefit, Government, Health

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Quaequam Blog!

The controversy surrounding last year’s Great Global Warming Swindle highlights a number of things for me. First of all, the OfCom ruling today appears to have caused more heat than light. The report states that: …In dealing with these ...

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pay | workers | public sector | passport staff | picket line Solidarity to PCS members
Union Futures

Quick post to give solidarity greetings to PCS members in the passport service who have started their strike action today PCS are asking people to email Meg Hillier and show your support for PCS members in the Identity and Passport Service. &...

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Tags: strikes, Society, Northern Ireland, solidarity, collective action, Social Unrest, Thathers children, trade union, labour, Local Government, capitalism, civil service, Class war, credit crunch, Culture(!)

dwain chambers | loses dwain | chambers loses | drug cheats | beijing olympics Sporting Chance
Heresy Corner

The Dwain Chambers story over the past few months has been twofold: on the track, a string of performances demonstrating his world-class status; off the track, a succession of attempts by the athletic authorities to ban him from competition, or, whe...

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Tags: Sport, olympics, Dwain Chambers, drugs, law, lawyer, Athletics, The Media, Current Affairs, law and order, PR, Tour de France, World, Olympics Dwain Chambers, olympic ban

rhodri glyn | culture minister | minister rhodri | glyn thomas | welsh culture A sequence of events
Peter Black AM

When I posted yesterday afternoon that a senior Assembly Member had been asked to leave a Cardiff Bay public house on Wednesday night for smoking in the bar it seemed like an innocent enough piece of gossip. However, events nowadays have a habit of...

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Tags: fascism- 21st century style, resignation, cigar, Heritage Minister, Wales, Activism, Scotland, victims of terrorism, South East Wales, Plaiud, smoking

ian oakley | arrested | resigned | parliamentary candidate | watford candidate Sunday 20th July 2008
ConservativeHome

Shadowing David Cameron on the campaign trail "That afternoon Davis would publicly announce his decision and his plan to fight a by-election on the issue. “But that doesn’t make sense,” I say. “Yes, it’s odd; that’s what I thought,” Cameron no...

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Tags: Watford, Ian Oakley, harassment, Ali Miraj, Opposition watch, July 2008 newslinks, money, broadsheets, tories

lambeth conference | christian | bishops | religious | civil partnerships The (comm)unionisation of...
Freemania

Reader, you are a useless piece of crap so lacking in decency, intellect and humour that you’re not fit to rub ointment onto the genital warts of a rabid cockroach.Have I offended you? Have I hurt your feelings? Well, hopefully not. But if I have, t...

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dark knight | new batman | opening | screenings ahead | record takings Moving Pictures
A Tangled Rope

An excellent comment at The new Culture Forum about the way film has steadily infantilised itself over the last few decades. Now that has disappeared, and movies such as The Dark Knight are poured over for meaning. The truth is, in the last t...

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campaignin’ | ecard today | sendables ecard | jibjab sendables | time JibJab: It's time for som...
Bloggerheads

Send a JibJab Sendables® eCard Today! Top stuff from JibJab. As with their 2004 offering, they play no favourites and pull no punches as they cut, slice, dice and mash their way through the main players in the race for the White House. There's ...

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Tags: Americas, mysterious shit, video, USA, World current affairs, Flash Music Video, Games and Objects, LDVUSA

zimbabwe introduces | introduces z | 100bn note | pengő | worth z Zimbabwe Introduces $100 ...
A Welsh View

With inflation spiralling out of control, Zimbabwe has introduced a $100 billion note (CNN has a photo of a $500 million note). $100 billion is the equivalent to one U.S. dollar and is enough to buy four oranges. The official inflation rate is curr...

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Tags: endemic corruption, more corruption, Interesting, War on Terror, money, Twitterings - Best Of The Web, Africa, Zimbabwe, stupidity, Thabo Mbeki, Economy, Robert Mugabe, musings, wild speculation, pointless wastes of time and money

AL GORE, the guy who lost Florida, is back. Hey, he never went away, at least as far as the New York Times is concered: After 40 minutes of questions with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Vice President Al Gore’s voice came over the public address system...

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simone sestito | wows 200 | row quebec | nationalists opposed | whom crime Dwain Chambers - A Farce
Cynical Chatter From The ...

The people who run the BOA should be ashamed of themselves, they have just sent a terrible message to the youth of Britain, especially those for whom crime and drugs are a way of life. The message... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my webs...

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Tags: Amy Winehouse, crime, Jacqui Smith, self-defence, Celebrity Misc, Misc*, Sport, olympics, Entertainment, tabloids, Celebrities

gordon brown | brown flies | undeniable truth | talks gordon | southwold bbc Breaking News: Gordon Bro...
Daily Referendum

According to news sources coming out of Iraq, Gordon Brown escaped several "very determined" attempts on his life during his recent visit to Iraq. It is reported that the Prime Minister came under attack from small arms fire, rockets and mortars. An...

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smith institute | charity commission | commission report | lengthy charity | fuller comment Gordon Takes the Fifth on...
Iain Dale's Diary

I've been out most of the day (playing only my third golf round of the year, since you ask) so am only just catching up with the Charity Commission Report on the Smith Institute. Much coment seems to revolve around the fact that Gordon Brown refused...

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madeleine mccann | robert murat | suspect robert | portuguese police | newspapers The newspapers that lie o...
Paul Martin

So Robert Murat and two others have been awarded £800,000 from the good old British press. And if I might say so, quite rightly too!For no case has shown the moral bankruptcy of the British media more clearly than the disappearance of Madeleine McC...

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Tags: Madeleine McCann, British current affairs, Twitterings - Best Of The Web, uk, Media, Gonçalo Amaral, new book, Portuguese police

mrs robinson | viler act | homosexuality | than sexually | abusing innocent Iris Robinson – anti-gay ...
Cranmer

And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson,Jesus loves you more than you will know.God bless you, please Mrs. Robinson.Heaven holds a place for those who pray,Hey, hey, hey.And Iris Robinson MP MLA is doubtless praying rather a lot at the moment. She is the w...

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Tags: Homophobia, DUP, iris robinson, gay, Northern Ireland, fundamentalism, Bigotry, bible, church, Homosexuality, Politics, Scripture, Human rights, Stormont, Religion

west ham | switzerland international | star behrami | sign lazio's | sign lazio Arsene On Spending And Sh...
A Cultured Left Foot

And on the fiftieth day of boredom with transfer rumours, the Lord said, “Let there be a football match to take their minds off such things that divide them”. Actually, had that been true, I am pretty sure the fixture might have been a b...

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Tags: premier league, Transfer Gossip, Premiership, tabloids, Back pages, West Ham, Bolton Wanderers, The Independent, Gary Megson, Football, Arsenal, Soccer

barack obama's | tour pitfalls | pitfalls barack | obama's challenges | international tour Currently listening to…
Anders Hanson

It’s ages since I last wrote about the music I’ve been listening to, which is a shame as I’ve been listening almost obsessively to the same album ever since I bought it at the start of May - Everything’s The Rush by Delays. I...

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delia derbyshire | delia derbyshire's | tapes dr | lost tapes | composer delia links for 2008-07-20
plasticbag.org

"Erik Huggers made BBC new media boss" I don't know the man at all There was clearly some succession planning going on here, though, which doesn't entirely fill me with joy. Sigh. (tags: bbc erikhuggers ashleyhighfield) All electronic...

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im using | wordcamp uk | video too | chiefs generally | wordpress client WordCamp UK 2008 - A Qik ...
WOWNDADI

One of the great things about blogging is that you can still do it even when you are unable to speak! I had an unscheduled visit to the dentist today, having woken up in intense pain. The anesthetic is wearing off and I am remembering what happens w...

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