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- From Little Houses on the Prairie to the High Plains
Last Ditch (Today) - My first stop of the day A "soddie". The original little house on the prairie for most starting-out homesteaders The comfortable, if rather cramped interior of the sod house Can you picture John Wayne as... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- From Little Houses on the Prairie to the High Plains
The Last Ditch (Today) - My first stop of the day A "soddie". The original little house on the prairie for most starting-out homesteaders The comfortable, if rather cramped interior of the sod house Can you picture John Wayne as... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- Splits in the Labour Party over NHS reforms
Andrew Nutt (Today) - It's nice to see the Two Labour AM's and Two Labour AM's for the Rhondda and Pontypridd finally honouring their election promise. By standing against a cost cutting evil government. Wait a minute its not... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- The IMF Report
John Redwood MP (Today) - The IMF sees a lot of worse cases than the UK economy. The summary of their report starts positively, recording “some improvement in economic and financial conditions.” They praise the strong private sector employment growth... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Pentland Avenue wall - latest update
Fraser Macpherson (Today) - Back in March, I firstly raised with the City Engineer concerns about a significant amount of water seepage from the retaining wall along Pentland Avenue, towards the Balgay Road end of the wall. This... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- First Minister Carwyn Jones pleased to welcome a key European...
This is South Wales - Politics (Today) - FIRST Minister Carwyn Jones has welcomed the staging of a European conference in Wales.Scholars and policy makers were brought together for yesterday's conference entitled Europeanising Devolution: Wales, the United Kingdom and Europe being held in... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Ross Thomas, 25, is youngest town mayor of Maesteg
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- IMF managing director Christine Lagarde evades fraud accusation
John Lichfield (Today) - The IMF chief Christine Lagarde escaped a formal accusation of fraud after two days of interrogation by a special court in France. Related Stories French government seeks to ban extreme right-wing group Key witness against... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Sinn Fein MLA Alex Maskey: No party can ignore issues like parading
Belfast Telegraph - Politics (Today) - Sinn Fein MLA Alex Maskey has said there can be no escape route for any party when it comes to finding answers to the sensitive questions of parades, flags and the past.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Warnings over flagship projects
BBC News - Politics (Today) - More than 30 of the coalition's flagship schemes, including the West Coast Main Line scheme, are at serious risk of failure, a government report warns.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- A modern dilemma
Holyrood Chronicles (Today) - So little time, so much telly to watch. Simon Hoggart explains the problem:Do other readers suffer from TV guilt? I have seen only three episodes of The Wire. Admit this to friends, and they look... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- Acton Central gets 3rd worst roads deal
Phil Taylor (Yesterday) - This picture shows Spencer Road in Acton Central, again with patches. Again you might think that Acton Central would have had some money spent on its roads under the last three years of a Labour... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Key Government Projects 'At Risk Of Failure'
Sky News Politics (Yesterday) - The Government is accused of "burying bad news" after an audit rating the delivery of major infrastructure projects is released.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Soldier Box
New Left Project (Yesterday) - by Joe GlentonIt’s December 2009. I’ve been put in prison for opposing the war in Afghanistan. Lots of other people disagree with it, lots of people think it is variously a stupid or illegal or... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News› - Eton’s Scholarship Exam New Left Project (Yesterday) - by AliceThis is one of the questions in the Eton College King’s Scholarship Examination 2011 (pdf). There are a few questions in there that might raise an eyebrow, but as educational visions of the future... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- As Hay-on-Wye opens this week, it's time for book festivals to open a new and exciting chapter
Chris Bryant (Yesterday) - One of the world's most renowned literature festivals, Hay-on-Wye, begins its week of readings, talks and question-and-answer sessions with celebrity authors today. But, are readings, talks and questions and answers enough any more? One man,... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- The Oxford Times: MP urges a bid for memorial cash to honour Bicester war heroes
Tony Baldry MP (Yesterday) - Bicester’s MP is calling for a lasting memorial to all of the town’s war heroes.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Banbury Guardian: Charity pulls out all the stops
- Cam uses Bojo to boost Tory mojo
Sun - Politics (Yesterday) - EXCLUSIVE: THE Mayor of London will be used to win back Conservative voters... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Three sheets to the wind Underdogs Bite Upwards (Yesterday) - I start work at 3 pm tomorrow so have been out with me old cronies at smoky-drinky tonight. Also, for the train geeks, Western Gladiator is back to full working order and Deltic (not a... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Smoking Helps Protect Against Lung Cancer
Frank Davis (Yesterday) - H/T J. Johnson for this link to Joe Vialls’ 10-year-old Smoking Helps Protect Against Lung Cancer. I read it about 5 years ago, but my link to it subsequently expired. His view was that blaming smoking... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Paris...London...Now Stockholm
Socialism or Your Money Back (Yesterday) - It was London two years ago and it was Paris in 2005. Now it is Stockholm.Days of protest riots in Sweden began on May 19, after police shot dead a knife-wielding 69-year-old man who had locked himself... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- Obama's Democrats, Chinese CP, Tony Blair, Helmut Schmidt, An appropriate audience for the 150 birthday party of Germany's Social Democratic Party!
Organised Rage (Yesterday) - Leaders of the early German workers' movement, August Bebel, Wilhelm Liebknecht – Karl Marx – Carl Wilhelm Tölcke, Ferdinand Lassalle (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Four months before the federal election, the Social Democratic Party is celebrating its... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Training Ground: Western radicals could be learning terrorism skills in Syrian conflict Henry Jackson Society (Yesterday) - Americans and Europeans have been joining al Qaeda-affiliated groups in Syria in increasing numbers, causing concern that these Western radicals could attempt to carry out terrorist attack on the United States upon returning home, experts... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Robin Simcox’s Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security Henry Jackson Society (Yesterday) - “Assessing the Threat to the Homeland from Al-Qaeda Operations in Iran and Syria”Chairman King, members of the subcommittee, my sincere thanks for the opportunity to testify here today on issues which I believe should concern... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›