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- The people running so called social media like Google, Facebook and Apple are not dippy hippy capitalists, they're robber barons in chinos.
Organised Rage (Today) - Last week, I was waiting in the queue at the butcher while an elderly lady was being served. Clearly, she was not that well-off and chose the cheapest cuts of meat. When she was done,... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- First Minister's Questions - 23 May 2013 - video
NewsNetScotland (Today) - In keeping with our aim to provide, as often as we can, a full recording of First Minister's Questions, we have uploaded the latest session.Many people are unable to navigate both the Scottish Parliament's own... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- UK Govt must talk to Scottish Govt before referendum to 'help voters' says Electoral Commission
NewsNetScotland (Today) - By a Newsnet reporter Following evidence given by John McCormick, Electoral Commissioner for Scotland, at the Referendum Bill Committee on Thursday, the SNP is making a fresh call for the UK government to engage in... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Scottish Conservatives 'doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome'
NewsNetScotland (Today) - By a Newsnet reporter Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson has come under renewed pressure to rethink her party's strategy in Scotland after Murdo Fraser, who narrowly lost the party's leadership election to Ms Davidson after... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- US congressional hearing told British security services new Pat Finucane was to be murdered and did nothing to stop it.
Organised Rage (Today) - You could hear a pin drop in Foreign Affairs Committee Room 2172 in the Rayburn building in Washington DC on Wednesday.The occasion was new hearings on the Patrick Finucane murder, the Northern Irish civil rights... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Parliament Conveners’ Group to Question First Minister
Scottish Parliament (Today) - In a parliamentary first, the Scottish Parliament’s Conveners’ Group today announced it will question the First Minister in September following his statement on the Government’s legislative programme.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- Benefit Fraud Mother Claimed Five Of Her Children Were Disabled
Same Difference (Today) - A mother of eight has been found guilty of fraudulently receiving more than £350,000 in benefits and tax credits. Amanda Webber, 43, claimed five of her children had disabilities and medical conditions which affected their... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Baillie: Alex Neil either doesn’t know the truth or is hiding the truth
Labour Hame (Today) - Following conflicting statements from the Minister for Health Alex Neil and major drug manufacturer Merck, Scottish Labour’s shadow health spokesperson Jackie Baillie MSP said: “Alex Neil said bowel cancer patients who had had chemotherapy weren’t... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Curran: Is Salmond trying to create a tax haven?
Labour Hame (Today) - After two days during which the SNP have suggested slashing the rate of corporation tax and SNP MEPs voted against measures to tackle tax avoidance, the SNP must come clean on their approach to tax.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Another ‘Senseless Tragedy’
Biased BBC (Today) - Mr Thompson said: ‘Without question, “I complain in the strongest possible terms”, is different from, “I complain in the strongest possible terms and I am loading my AK47 as I write”. This definitely raises... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Stiff competition for Most Fatuous Reaction award
Melanie Phillips (Today) - There’s been some stiff competition over the past 24 hours for the coveted award of Most Fatuous Reaction to a Jihadi Atrocity.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Drummer Lee Rigby murder: RICHARD LITTLEJOHN on the Toytown jihadists and a lack of political willpower
Richard Littlejohn (Today) - Drummer Lee Rigby’s murder marked a grisly new departure in the annals of terror in this country. But the aftermath has played out along pretty much the same lines as every other terrorist outrage on... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- Woolwich and Afghanistan: the connection
Open Democracy (Today) - An understanding of the linkbetween the shocking murder of a young soldier on a London street and "remote-control" attacks by western states is essential. In the London bombings of 7 July 2005 (“7/7”), explosions on... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Police ponder conspiracy after soldier murder
Reuters UK News (Today) - LONDON (Reuters) - Police investigating the murder of a soldier hacked to death on a busy London street were looking on Friday into whether the two suspected killers, British men of Nigerian descent, were part... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News› - Decline of district nurse ‘means patients stay longer in hospital’
The Times - Politics £ (Today) - Cuts in the number of district nurses mean that patients are stranded in hospital for days after they should be...... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Lee Rigby: a family man who ‘would do anything for anyone’
The Times - Politics £ (Today) - Drummer Lee Rigby, humorous, generous and loving, always played the “big brother”, his family said last night.The military bandsman,...... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Woolwich attack: suspect Michael Adebolajo 'linked to banned group Al-Muhajiroun'
Daily Telegraph - Politics (Today) - Police are investigating whether Michael Adebolajo had been closely linked to the now banned British extremist group Al-Muhajiroun following his conversion to Islam in 2003. ... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- The War on Drugs: the Observer debate – as it happened
The Guardian - Politics (Today) - Live coverage of a panel discussion on drug laws with David Simon, writer of The Wire, documentary maker Eugene Jarecki, Rachel Seifert, the director of the documentary Cocaine Unwrapped and others at the Royal Institution... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Phone-hacking victims reject newspapers' charter proposal
The Guardian - Politics (Today) - Culture secretary Maria Miller has been urged not to permit the press industry to 'write its own rulebook'Some of the most prominent victims of phone-hacking have written to the culture secretary, Maria Miller, urging her... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- 'It was a joke!' Schofield makes feeble apology after backlash from Cumbria swipe
Ephraim Hardcastle (Today) - EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: TV presenter Phillip Schofield called Cumbria ‘cold, dull and miles away’ on his current ITV show, All Star Mr & Mrs, prompting the inevitable complaints.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Drummer Lee Rigby killing: The enemy within that hates our tolerance by MAX HASTINGS
Max Hastings (Today) - While most British Muslims wholeheartedly condemn the Woolwich killers, sadly, we know from bleak experience that a significant minority will tell opinion pollsters they actually endorse what was done.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Liberals Ask Why Was No Action Taken Against No One In Particular
House of Dumb (Today) - There is no greater barometer of the complete uselessness of Britain's Professional Conservatives than that the left has decided to blame the Woolwich attack on the Security Services for not stopping the killers.It's as if... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Death by the barracks
Lenin's Tomb (Today) - I knew John Wilson Street sounded familiar. I lived on that street as a student, just adjacent to the barracks and close to the Woolwich campus of the University of Greenwich.Come, Armageddon. There is a... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- Leaders: What price for vigilance? | Weather woes
Scotsman - Politics (Today) - It WAS one of those news items you have to catch twice because its horror was hard to believe the first time.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Edinburgh trams ‘will run by end of the year’
Scotsman - Politics (Today) - PASSENGERS will be riding the trams in Edinburgh by the end of the year, a former consultant to the £776 million project has predicted.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›


