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baby p | government | brown | den dover | gordon
Of course Cameron was pla...
Forceful and Moderate
It's his job. If David Cameron wasn't playing party politics with the Baby P story, then he was culpably incompetent in choosing to raise the issue.
Before PMQ's, he will have sat down with his advisors and asked them "How exactly can I make pol...
membership list | bnp membership | bnp members | leaked | names
BNP membership list leake...
Bloggerheads
Register - BNP membership list leaks online: The British National Party has lost its membership list - the whole thing has been published online. The list includes names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of all members up to September 20...
star trek | xi trailer | terminator salvation | trek trailer | trek xi
Nintendo Nunchuck goes wi...
Gaj-It.com - UK Gadget an...
If your wondering what to get your friend or partner (or maybe both, hey it can happen) for Xmas and he/she has got a Wii then I may have found one little item to add to the list. It would do for me (hint, hint).
So what is it I hear all you non-Wii...
pirates | oil tanker | navy | sirius star | somalia
Bush And Brown To Invest ...
Anorak News
PIRACY is booming. It’s the world’s growth industry.
Over the newswires, Anorak learns that a Hong Kong cargo ship has been attacked by pirates in the Gulf of Aden near the Yemen coast.
The good ship Delight is loaded with 36,000 tonnes of whe...
prince charles | prince wales | queen | royal highness | birthday
Milestone for a prince wh...
Latest news, sport, busin...
For many men, a 60th birthday is a time for reflection; a winding down of activities, handing over to the kids (passing on the family firm, perhaps), looking forward to retirement. Not so for the Prince of Wales, whose birthday it is today. All his ...
antiques roadshow | valued | million item | bbc's antiques | gateshead
£1m find by BBC's Antique...
Latest news, sport, busin...
Expect an upsurge in attendances at car boot sales across the UK after Antiques Roadshow, the long-running BBC TV programme, values an item brought in by a member of the public at £1m for the very first time.The nature of the item that has been foun...
organ donation | opt | system | organ donor | presumed consent
Organ donors and presumed...
Power to the People! UK P...
I don’t want to get into a debate as to the rights and wrongs of whether people should agree to donate their organs, although I am willing to state, for the record, that I support the organ donor programme. What concerns me is when government,...
proposition 8 | california | prop 8 | against proposition | gay marriage
Protest against Propositi...
LGBT History Month UK
I hope you're familiar with Proposition 8 in California and the news that it passed, which is very bad news for the LGBT Community. Three other states passed legislation that denies our community equal rights. A grass roots effort was started last F...
christmas special | children | special preview | allons | need
DOCTOR WHO - CHRISTMAS S...
Cathode Ray Tube
A brief two minute preview of the Christmas Special The Next Doctor was shown on the Children In Need telethon tonight in the UK. Cue two Doctors, two sonic screwdrivers and allons-y!
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george w | w earlier | american theme | w bush | saudi arabia
UN appoints Saudi Arabia ...
Cranmer
As if further proof were needed of the ineptitude, hypocrisy and perverse morality of the United Nations, their conference on religious tolerance was presided over by none other than Saudi Arabia.This is the Islamic kingdom that tortures ‘apostates’...
child abuse | abuse campaign | campaign headline | new child | injured through
The history of child abus...
Liberal England
The other day, while discussing the death of Baby P (can't we all, like Heresy Corner, call him Peter now?) I wrote:Ed Balls has now announced yet another enquiry, but such enquiries have had remarkably similar findings going right back to the death...
climate change | international energy | greenhouse gases | iea | energy outlook
Energy Agency warns of 6°...
the optimum population tr...
Our voracious appetite for energy is potentially putting the planet on the path for a 6°C rise in temperatures – which is far more than what climate specialists say the environment can cope with.
In its 2008 World Energy Outlook, the International E...
reg varney | stan butler | varney obituary | chappie role | varney died
London Bus and Railway In...
Going Underground's Blog
Today the UK Bus Awards will honour the commitment to quality and innovation in the bus industry. You'll be pleased to hear there's a special category for London promoted by TfL which "focus especially on the challenging task of running reliable and...
second life | virtual | david pollard | amy taylor | divorce
Second Life affair leads ...
Latest news, sport, busin...
For its many devotees, the Second Life virtual world is a place where the everyday constraints of normal life drop away and vivid fantasies can be played out. But fact and fiction have collided in heartbreaking fashion for a British couple who are d...
paul flynn | blog | communications allowance | censored | blogs
Blogging with Parliamenta...
ThunderDragon Blog
MPs who blog are being censored by the Commons authorities - if they use the £10,000 Communications Allowance to pay for it.
A Labour MP says he has been stripped of a Parliamentary allowance for making fun of other MPs on his blog.
Paul Flynn was...
short story | story competition | im serialising | graphic short | isabel greenberg
Creative City Awards - li...
daveharte.com
The finalists for the Creative City awards have been announced (also by Kenny from Big cat PR).
I thought it worthwhile repeating the list with links through to the companies (and to their blogs if I could find one - please add a comment if I’...
houses parliament | parliament infested | vermin' | else automatically | headline o'the
Contrasting American and ...
NightHawk
Two and a half months ago, I did a blog posting on the contrast between American and British politics. It attracted more comments that I usually obtain on this blog, so you might like to revisit it.
Now that the presidential election is over, this ...
id cards | vote decisively | scheme | pilots | decisively against
The BBC and ID cards: Rep...
UK Libertarian Party
The idea that the BBC is fundamentally biased, unfit for purpose and often factually inaccurate has become an increasingly popular set of memes of late.Combine those thoughts however with such a political powderkeg as ID cards and the facility that ...
minister phil | phil woolas | woolas immigration | immigration minister | migration rises
List of UK jobs open to m...
the optimum population tr...
The list of jobs open to immigrants from outside the European Union has been published by the UK government. Ministers say it will cut by 200,000 the jobs available to non-EU workers.
The shortage occupation list replaces the current work permit s...
sinn | michael stone | stormont | martin mcguinness | stone convicted
Putting problems off til ...
Three Thousand Versts of ...
It would be, I acknowledge, unduly churlish to pen a virtual heckle at news that the impasse over Stormont executive meetings may be close to resolution. If, at long last, Sinn Féin has decided to return to work and meet its counterparts at the exe...
tool bag | international space | space station | spacewalking astronaut | spacewalker
Female astronaut loses he...
Nothing To Do With Arbroa...
Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper was carrying out an unprecedented attempt to clean up a gummed-up joint on the International Space Station's solar panel on Tuesday when the grease gun inside her tool bag exploded, getting nasty grey goo all over her ca...
liam byrne | acceptable quality | hill appears | mp birmingham | following instructions
Liam Byrne's twist on "Th...
Guy Fawkes' blog of parli...
Have just come across this brilliant use of YouTube by Liam Byrne. Credit where credit is due - what a good idea. Highlight rubbish tipping on a YouTube video, upload it to the local MP's blog-like website. He can be bring quick results when the...
new york | york times | journalists fall | gullible political | rather illuminating
Mr Nowhere Man
An Englishman's Castle
Iain Dale's Diary: Brown So Important He Doesn't Rate a Mention
The New York Times carries a lengthy report of the meetings held between world leaders this weekend. Read it HERE. Rather illuminating that the only major world leader not to rate even...
3 million | cbi | reach 3 | unemployment | million unemployed
Gordon Brown’s Word For T...
Anorak News
HEY, tax doesn’t have to be taxing.
Just ask Gordon Brown. It’s easy. You just say, “Make it so” and you can raise more taxes than a priapic Caesar.
Gordon Brown is talking about deflation. Every week Gordon introduces a new word into the British le...
world cup | rugby league | league world | new zealand | maradona
Diego Maradona Returns to...
EPL Talk
As Diego Maradona prepares to return to the forefront of international football it is quite fitting that he will make his managerial debut of the Argentine national squad in the cauldron of all English hatred, Hampden Park. Anyone that can somehow ...
afghanistan blast | afghan car | marines killed | us convoy | 10 civilians
Rogue Gunners Military Ba...
"ROGUE GUNNER"
© Mack (RG) The thoughts of a Falklands War Veteran.Rogue_gunner_32_alpha@yahoo.co.ukBoycott BP Boycott Cross Country Trains Boycott the Metro Hotel Boycott the walkabout barBoycott......
pietersen praises | cricket | england | india kevin | equally committed
Pietersen praises ‘fantas...
The Village Cricketer
Following England’s defeat in the second one day international against India, Kevin Pietersen praised match-winner Yuvraj Singh who dominated England with bat and ball in Indore. The 26-year-old scored his second century in as many games before proc...
x factor | eoghan quigg | sixth act | rachel hylton | gets x
Winehouse Saves Eoghan Qu...
Anorak News
AMY Winehouse watches the X Factor, the contest in which hopefuls see if they can pass a series of challenges and become popstars.
Challenges include:
Making a crack pipe from an empty can of Vitamilk
Photographer punching
Playing the coke s...
cocaine users | 4m squared | rainforest | cocaine kills | gram
Cocaine users are destroy...
Latest news, sport, busin...
Four square metres of rainforest are destroyed for every gram of cocaine snorted in the UK, a conference of senior police officers as told yesterday.Francisco Santos Calderón, the vice-president of Colombia, appealed to British users of the c...
rocket science | book covers | reimagined closer | novels lend | covers reimagined
It's Not Rocket Science
The Skyscraper Condemnati...
It was a dark and stormy night.Suddenly, from the wet darkness, a tree thrust out a branch and smashed the wing-mirror of my car.The next day, a garage mechanic took a deep breath. You can't, it seems, just replace the glass. It's a motorised unit...
Private Lee Martin O'Callaghan of 1st Battalion The Princess of Wales' Royal Regiment, was killed during an attack by insurgents in Basra, Iraq on 9th August 2004.Link> MoD Operation Telic Private Leigh Reeves of the Royal Logistic Corps was killed in Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday 9th August 2006.Link> MoD: Defence NewsLance Sergeant Chris Casey and Lance Corporal Kirk Redpath of 1st Battalion, Irish Guards were called in southern Iraq on Thursday 9th August 2007Link> MoD Defence News... 
Private Craig Barber of 2nd Battalion The Royal Welsh was killed when on patrol in his Warrior vehicle in Basra, Iraq Monday 6th August 2007.Link> MoD Defence NewsPrivate Andrew Cutts of 13 Air Assault Support Regiment, Royal Logistic Corps, was killed in action in Musa Qualeh, northern Helmand, Afghanistan on Sunday 6th August 2006.Link> MoD Defence News... 
Captain Alex Eida, 2nd Lieutenant Ralph Johnson and Lance Corporal Ross Nicholls were killed in Helmand, Afghanistan on Tuesday 1st August 2006 when their Spartan armoured reconnaissance vehicle was attacked by insurgents with rocket propelled grenades and heavy machine guns. Link> MoD Defence News... 
Sergeant Barry Keen of 14 Signal Regiment was killed by a mortar attack in Afghanistan on Friday 27 July 2007.Link> MoD Defence News... 
