If you were a teacher, would you seriously think about taking pupils on a school trip? With all the 'lef & safety' provisions that now exist you'd have to be either brave or stupid to take kids on the kind of foreign trips and geography...

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So, Sir Ian Kennedy (new chairman of the Independent STandards Authority) is a close personal friend of Alastair Campbell. Does it matter? To the Westminster lobby it does - because they missed the story until it was too late. So, it has to be said, did..

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Piers Morgan: Why didn't you, as a former chancellor, smell a rat before the system collapsed? Gordon Brown: Because I didn't know that the AAA-rated subprime mortgage assets being sold to us and the rest of Europe from America were valueless....

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I've just landed in Dublin, where I will be for the next 24 hours, to learn that former Irish Premier John Bruton is launching a bid to be the first EU president and thereby scupper Tony Blair in the process. The devil in me would love to see Blair...

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And Denis MacShane has the bare faced cheek to accuse ME of being a propagandist . Does he never look in the mirror?!!! His latest effort at black propaganda is to equate Michal Kaminski with Nick Griffin. Desperate stuff from a desperate party. Believe.

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