Did the horrid Tesco run today and couldn't help but notice yet another sign that this doomed government has lost all moral authority. Remember a few months ago all the threats to clamp down on supermarkets selling cheap booze? Ministers on the TV...
Topics: failure, labour

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I've lost count of the number of times over the past three years on this blog that I've seen this political reform coming; something as momentous as the reforms of the 1820s and 30s, I've said. But I never imagined that an expenses scandal...
Topics: localism, political parties, state funding

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Contrary to speculation in the media, there is nothing sinister or untoward in the fact that the cleaner was paid for 3 hours a week for Andrew's flat but 7 hours a week for Gordon's. The differences are easily explained as follows; Andrew's..
Topics: failure, gordon brown

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The news media seem to be having trouble finding MPs willing to be interviewed on the expenses scandal. I wonder why?
Topics: corruption, MPs, sleaze

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The Telegraph has secured a coup over its Fleet Street rivals with notice of its purchase of the unredacted list of MPs' expenses, and this redeems what has been an uninspiring performance by the paper over the past few months. In a useful A-Z of...
Topics: corruption, MPs, sleaze

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