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- First, David Cameron should bring his own tax havens to book | Simon Jenkins
Guardian Comment is Free (Politics) (Today) - Pressing the G8 to get tough on avoidance is hypocrisy while British dependencies like the Caymans are still in businessI cannot see the point of tax havens. Or rather, I can see the point, but... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Blow for Cameron as 133 Tory MPs vote against gay marriage
The Staggers (Today) - Tory opponents of the bill outnumber supporters as just 117 Conservative MPs vote in favour.Update: The final figures showed that 133 Tory MPs voted against the bill (one fewer than at its second reading), with... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Maria Stubbings was killed by one man. The question is: who let it happen? | Julie Bindel
- Andy McSmith's Diary: Listen children, the world really was created in seven days
Independent Newspaper - Politics (Today) - A question thrown up while MPs were arguing over gay marriage is whether fundamentalist Christian teachers should have a legal right to propagate creationism in the classroom. This cropped up while opponents of gay marriage... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- Same Sex Marriage Bill: how MPs voted
Spectator Coffee House (Today) - The wizards at the Press Association have released their analysis of the division lists from tonight’s third reading vote on the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill. It was a free vote,… Continue readingThe post Same Sex Marriage... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Inflation fall boosts Osborne against IMF
Financial Times - Politics £ (Today) - Timing ideal for chancellor at loggerheads with fund economists but officials do not think data will silence calls for him to ease deficit reduction... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Micro-UAV points of view
Think Defence (Today) - Two commercially available quadcopters have been used to film footage of the Costa Concordia wreck site. The footage gives a great sense of what is possible from man-portable UAV surveillance systems. Note the film makers comments... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- Glenn Greenwald doubles down on claim that pro-Israel factions nixed Massad essay (Updated)
CiF Watch (Today) - See update below. As we reported yesterday, Glenn Greenwald Tweeted his outrage after Al Jazeera recently published and then deleted an appallingly antisemitic essay by Joseph Massad – titled, ‘Last of the Semites’ – which... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Simon Reevell urges local communities to commemorate the Centenary of the First World War
Simon Reevell MP (Today) - Dewsbury MP, Simon Reevell, is encouraging local communities to take advantage of the Heritage Lottery Fund’s First World War: Then and Now programme. ... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- A Bill Dodwell gem
Tax Research (Today) - Bill Dodwell appered before the Lords before I did this afternoon. Amongst the comments he made was something like (I did not note absolutely verbatim) “We don’t see advantage from selling schemes that seek to... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- BOOM! RON PAUL ON THE IRS GANGSTERS
A Tangled Web (Today) - Washington Times: Ron Paul: Fix IRS by shutting it ‘once and for all’ Former Rep. Ron Paul of Texas called the recent IRS fiasco troubling — but writes that the only way Congress can protect... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- Blow for Cameron as 133 Tory MPs vote against gay marriage
George Eaton (Today) - Tory opponents of the bill outnumber supporters as just 117 Conservative MPs vote in favour.Update: The final figures showed that 133 Tory MPs voted against the bill (one fewer than at its second reading), with... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Maria Stubbings was killed by one man. The question is: who let it happen? | Julie Bindel
Politics + Comment (Today) - The failure of police to prevent her murder has been admitted. An apology is not enough – we need a public inquiry into domestic violenceMaria Stubbings is dead, strangled by a former boyfriend and let... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- NHS chief quits amid troubles over Mid Staffs and A & E
The Times - Politics £ (Today) - Sir David Nicholson, the head of the NHS, is to quit next year after months of criticism over the Mid...... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Abductions and concessions
Mick Hartley (Today) - Last week Isao Iijima, special assistant to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, visited Pyongyang. The trip was secret; neither the US nor South Korea were informed in advance. The purpose of the trip was clear... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- First, David Cameron should bring his own tax havens to book | Simon Jenkins
- Same sex Marriage: another Liberal Democrat victory
Liberal Democrat Voice (Today) - The House of Commons has passed the Marriage (Same sex couples) Bill at Third Reading stage with a whopping majority of 205. Next stop for this measure is the House of Lords after the recess... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Urgent Question on A&E departments
Valerie Vaz MP (Today) - Valerie said: “The evidence that we heard today in the Health Select Committee from the College of Emergency medicine said there is a 50% shortfall in trainee doctors and in consultants. Trusts spend on average... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- Land Reform Withers on the Vine of Complacency & Ignorance
Bella Caledonia (Today) - By Andy Wightman It is probably quite appropriate that today, within 24 hours of publishing her Interim Report, the Chair of the Land Reform Review Group, Alison Elliot, is giving Continue reading →... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›