It was a very great honour to meet Yessika Hoyos Morales of the Corporacion Colectivo de Abogados for lunch today.  Yessika is a deeply inspiring character and has given me the energy to pressure the government into taking a tougher line with Colombia,..

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A new Facebook group on copyright reform set up. More background can be found here and here.

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Surprise, surprise. Conservative Home: The Tories will NOT hold a referendum on Lisbon but seek a ‘manifesto mandate’ to renegotiate Britain’s relationship with the EU.

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This morning, The Sun has apologised. (PDF)

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I’m not sure if Liam Fox has done his homework with this story, that the Tories may privatise the Met Office. From memory, I think that the Met office makes a surplus. It’s a Trading Fund with the MoD being the lead department in government..
Topics: liam fox, met office, weather

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