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Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:26:00 -0700

Wasteland
When Robinho moved to Manchester City, people questioned his motives. We can now rest assured that it wasn't for Manchester...
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Sat, 11 Oct 2008 06:57:00 -0700

Caribbean-ish
I was thinking the other day, whatever happened to the old Marmite adverts? The ones that declared you either loved it or hated...
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Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:20:00 -0700

Margin of Three
Telegraph: Gordon Brown will be urged to drop legislation allowing the detention of terror suspects for 42 days by the leader...
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Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:15:00 -0700

Fat, Insecure
Telegraph: Gordon Brown has described the behaviour of the Icelandic government following the bank collapses as "totally...
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Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:14:00 -0700

Yes We Can
Had to return - again - to my old high school this evening for my brother's parents evening. My father's in Cyprus, and I had...
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Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:51:00 -0700

Where's The Money Coming From?
Financial Times: The Treasury on Thursday offered to bail out town halls facing acute cash-flow problems as a wave of public...
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Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:33:00 -0700

The Lesser of Two
BBC News: Six central banks, including the Bank of England, have cut interest rates by half a percentage point in an effort to...
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Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:21:00 -0700

The Famous Ratchet
Peter Hitchens, true to form, has responded to Tim Montgomerie's "fisking" of his most recent Mail on Sunday article. And he...
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Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:24:00 -0700

Markets and Morality
BBC News: Gordon Brown has urged global markets to abide by a system of "morals", including "responsible risk-taking" and a...
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Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:20:00 -0700

Juxtapositions
Today ..."Tim Montgomerie of ConservativeHome.com defends 'libertarian paternalism'"Unfortunately (for him), there's no...
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Sun, 05 Oct 2008 09:52:00 -0700

Keep Quiet
Telegraph: Lord Stevens, the former Metropolitan Police chief, has warned that political interference threatens to undermine...
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Sat, 04 Oct 2008 08:34:00 -0700

Popular Democracy
Telegraph: Gordon Brown is to propose a £12 billion European Union fund to help small businesses deal with the financial...
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Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:07:00 -0700

A Welsh Nationalist
For those who remain who don't think the European federal project has invaded every aspect of life in Britain:A leading Welsh...
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Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:38:00 -0700

No Knowledge And No Pride
Had to go back to my old high school earlier today with a friend who'd left something of us there. Walking through the English...
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Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:52:00 -0700

Plural Cities
There has been a rather significant statement by a Conservative in Birmingham on the subject of the potentially catastrophic...
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Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:45:00 -0700

Big Ideas
One of the 'big' Conservative ideas to come out of this year's party conference is thus:... we'll have an independent...
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Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:35:00 -0700

Their Arrogance
What might turn out, in the long-run, to be a significant bit of David Cameron's keynote speech today to the Conservative...
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Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:36:00 -0700

Correct Me
Independent: The Shadow Chancellor George Osborne today announced that a future Tory Government will enable town halls to...
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Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:45:00 -0700

The End of The Imperium
The Guardian: Downing Street has drawn up plans to end the 300-year-old exclusion of Catholics from the throne. The requirement...
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Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:19:00 -0700

Identity? What Identity?
The design of the identity cards - which the Government will now rush to cram down our throats just to show it's doing...
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Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:46:00 -0700

Mesmerising
Telegraph: Lovers of work by the abstract painter Mark Rothko are to get the chance to view 15 of his mesmerising Seagram...
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Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:45:00 -0700

The Living Dead
To your left is the "word cloud" used in BBC Online's article about Gordon Brown's keynote speech today to the Labour Party...
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Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:30:00 -0700

Tiny Tims
Via EU Referendum, and, of course, The Independent:Parents are to receive vouchers worth up to £700 to ensure that all 1.4...
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Sun, 21 Sep 2008 09:56:00 -0700

The Gentleman
Times: Taxpayers in Britain face up to 5p in the pound in extra taxes because of the credit crunch created by the banks,...
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Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:53:00 -0700

Vested Interest
Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling has donated 1 million pounds to the Labour Party to provide a much-needed boost to Prime...
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