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- Ways of extending the welfare state to the poor
Guerilla Policy (Today) - ‘Words make things, because they make the consensus on the existence and the meaning of things’ said Bourdieu and the language that is often used to discuss the causes of poverty and the circumstances of... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Pointless as well as contactless...
Dioclese (Today) - I love it when something so obviously pointless goes dramatically and expensively tits up.News this week that Marks and Spencer seems to have landed itself in a bit of a pickle with its new contactless... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Press release: Foreign Office marks International Missing Children’s Day
Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Today) - Almost 10 new child abduction and international custody cases a week are being dealt with by the Foreign Office.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News› - The Woolwich attack: should we feel terrorised?
Open Democracy (Today) - The fact is the perpetrators want this to be perceived as anact of terrorism. Doing so would put them in a league with the Al Qaedaaficionados they have idealised. In the aftermath of the brutal... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- G4S running rape support. Fuck that shit
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- Lucy Mangan: loved by the bad, feared by the good…
The Guardian - Politics (Today) - What HMRC could learn from Robin HoodWhen I was at primary school, my (deeply beloved) teacher Mrs Pugh once read us a story about Robin Hood. We professed ourselves slightly unclear about the precise nature of... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- "The Utopian boats of a multicultural success story"
Mark Wadsworth (Today) - It makes a change from mumbling on about "banana boats" I suppose:... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Nostalgia: The Man from U.N.C.L.E
Liberal Burblings (Today) - I used to love this programme. I think I had a “Man from U.N.C.L.E” gun or something. This video is the “long opening” from series one. It says at the beginning: The United Network Command... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Eton - The Right to Rule
Ironies Too (Today) - There was much discussion and debate yesterday on a question that appeared in an Eton College scholarship paper in 2011, which was the following:(c) The year is 2040. There have been riots in the streets... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- UKIP brings undemocratic Tory cabinet to an end in Norfolk
Bloggers 4 UKIP (Today) - The UKIP group on Norfolk County Council has successfully negotiated the end of the undemocratic cabinet system and formed a coalition with Labour and the Lib Dems.The minority administration of 39 councillors was formed with... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Fancy working for the Liberal Democrats #2
Liberal Democrat Voice (Today) - There are some very interesting jobs all over the country working for Liberal Democrats, either at party HQs or for parliamentarians. Here’s a quick selection – but be quick. Some have closing dates looming large.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Clear articulation of scholarly contribution is essential in academic writing
LSE UK Politics & Policy (Today) - Comprehensible writing relies on the strength of authorial voice, but voice remains a bewilderingly nebulous concept. Rachael Cayley recommends shifting from discussing voice to discussing contribution. The clear articulation of the contribution of one’s work to a body of research will... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Scrutiny Overrides
Washminster (Today) - The Senior Minister of State, Department for Communities and Local Government & Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Baroness Warsi): The Government work closely with the EU Committee in the House of Lords and the European Scrutiny... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Important Legal Notice – UK Court Outlaws Sarcasm on Twitter
Pride's Purge (Today) - (satire?) A UK libel judge has ruled that all sarcastic comments made in public are potentially libellous and should be …Continue reading »... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Don't let them eat cake!
Velvet Glove, Iron Fist (Today) - I have a new IEA publication out today: The Proof of the Pudding: Denmark's Fat Tax Fiasco (free download). Lobbyists for sin taxes on food and drink don't like to talk about what happened in... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Anger at windfarm ripoff. Owners name own price for not generating Tallbloke's Talkshop (Today) - You couldn’t make it up. From the Herald CALLS have been made for the UK Government to close an “embarrassing” loophole that allows some wind-farm operators to name their own price as compensation for not... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Just 8.8% vote in CIPR election
Living on Words Alone (Today) - The Chartered Institute of Public Relations represents some of the country's most important communication professionals, including those practising the dark arts of political spin. The membership are supposed to be some of the most politically... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- Why Ireland and developing countries should have a low corporate tax rate
Adam Smith Institute Blog (Today) - As you know there's much ventilating going on about corporate tax rates about the place. Special venom is reserved for Ireland's low rate and various development charities are turning the air blue with complaints about... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- Lilley's reply to Anderson
Bishop Hill (Today) - A couple of weeks ago, we discussed Professor Kevin Anderson's rather strange article in which he claimed, somewhat improbably, that Peter Lilley had maligned him. Lilley has now passed on his response to Anderson, which... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Sir Andrew Green of Migration Watch: The Government now has a chance of hitting its migration target. But it must act on in-work benefits.
Conservative Home - Comment (Today) - Sir Andrew Green is Chairman of Migrationwatch UK Readers of Conservative Home should be greatly encouraged by this week’s news that net migration is down by over a third. It now stands at 153,000 for... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Why Nick Clegg is losing to David Cameron
Daily Telegraph - Politics (Today) - Andrew Castle, who regularly plays tennis with David Cameron, says Nick Clegg has lost his last three matches against the Prime Minister. ... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- The 2015 General Election: Will the Liberal Democrats make net gains?
Political Betting (Today) - Yes, you did read that headline correctly, it wasn’t a typo, I am going to discuss whether the Lib Dems can make net gains in parliamentary seats at the 2015 General election, which might... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- A Lesson from Bangladesh
British National Party (Today) - By Maid of Kent-While media reports on the recent garment factory tragedy in Bangladesh have concentrated on the event and its probable cause, there has been a contrived avoidance in the mainstream media (msm) of... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Terror according to Glenn Greenwald
Harry's Place (Today) - This is a cross-post by Marc GoldbergIn an article written the day after the terror attack in the UK that saw Lee Rigby murdered in broad daylight Glenn Greenwald questioned whether it was in fact a... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- No need to tread on eggshells