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- The banality of the blowback ‘explanation’
Shiraz Socialist (Today) - Above: the explanation? All too predicatably, the usual suspects have rushed to explain the Woolwich killing by means of the so-called ‘blowback‘ argument (utilised with varying degrees of obvious gloating). Comrade Clive dealt with this... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Statistics: Code for sustainable homes and energy performance of buildings data: March 2013
Department for Communities and Local Government (Today) - Statistics on the code for sustainable homes and average energy efficiency (SAP ratings) for homes in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- MP warns local residents about phone scam
Fiona O'Donnell MP (Today) - Fiona O’Donnell MP is urging county residents to be aware of a phone scam where fraudsters use courier firms to help defraud elderly and vulnerable victims of their life savings. Police say that over the... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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Bevan Foundation (Today) - The annual visits by the Secretary of State for Wales to the Assembly to introduce the Queen’s Speech are a key part of the Assembly year. They are also very much influenced by the... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Iain Dale: What on earth is happening to the Bow Group?
Conservative Home - Columnists (Today) - Follow Iain on Twitter. Iain also blogs at www.iaindale.com. Iain Dale presents LBC 97.3 Drivetime programme 4-8pm every weekday. I’m not quite sure what has happened to the Bow Group. It seems to have disappeared... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- ‘N’ you can fuck off ‘n’ all woman
Tim Worstall (Today) - Baroness Warsi condemned the amount of coverage given to Choudary and other militant Islamists on the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 News. The BBC was criticised for offering the radical preacher a slot on last... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Can we shoot these people? Please?
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- Does the TJN ever actually think about what it publishes?
- Does a small tax really make so much difference?
Borthlas (Today) - Last week, a cross-party group of MPs urged the UK Government not to devolve Air Passenger Duty (APD). No real surprise there – most MPs seem to be as strongly against devolving anything as I... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Grooming: Loss of liberty does not equal safety
Indigo Jo (Today) - Letters: We need an inquiry into sex abuse cases | Society | The Guardian This letter from Anthony Stansfeld of Thames Valley police appeared in yesterday’s Guardian, and attributes the grooming and rape of girls... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News› - Why the #Woolwich murder is almost certainly not about #mentalhealth
Guerilla Policy (Today) - The events that took place in Woolwich yesterday [Wednesday] were truly shocking, tragic and indefensible. A young man killed in the street by two individuals, apparently motivated by Islamist extremism. Scrolling through the responses on... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- Harris Academy - decant transport arrangements - an update
Fraser Macpherson (Today) - Last night, I attended the latest meeting of Harris Academy Parent Council. Further to the information given to the Harris Academy Project Board on 24th April, there was an update on school transport arrangements... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- We must not let irresponsible deniers delay urgent action on climate change
Left Foot Forward (Today) - The motivating factor for many climate sceptical bloggers and columnists is often an ideological dislike of government intervention - but the route to lower energy bills requires exactly that.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Eye Spy Guido Fawkes
Political Scrapbook (Today) - Guido Fawkes accidentally outs himself as behind the @EyeSpyMP crowd-sourced MP-watching service with his own dialling wand moment earlier: All those lefty SW1A bag carriers (and MPs) that didn’t realise they were feeding Guido …... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Heresy of the week: The real reason why we didn’t win in 2010
Conservative Home - The Deep End (Today) - For a journalist supposed to be close to the Cameroons, Janan Ganesh daringly broaches the touchiest of subjects – the failure of the Conservative Party to win a majority at the last general election. To... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- More than 2 kids? You're anti-social!
Dioclese (Today) - A GP got himself into deep shit this week by talking. A bit of a rarity for most doctors these days, but there you have it...Mother of two Charlotte Comer (no pun intended) went to... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- EU economic and monetary disunion
Open Economy (Today) - Backtracking on the EU's monetary union will be politically very costly, but in the absence of a genuine economic and political union this stands out as the most likely scenario. What are the alternatives? Are... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- By ignoring the IMF George Osborne puts political pride before the national interest – my Guardian article
Ed Balls MP (Today) - The International Monetary Fund is not usually known for racy language and dramatic press releases. When IMF chiefs come to national capitals, diplomacy is normally the order of the day. So no one should be... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Mythbusters: “There’s nothing we can do about tax havens”
Tax Research (Today) - The full version of this mythbuster, which I have co-written with Dan Hind on tax havens and what we can do about them is now available on line, here.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Expressing Identity — Addressing Division: CRC Annual Policy Conference 2013 Slugger O'Toole (Today) - Expressing Identity: Addressing Division Apologies for tardy posting; thanks for Mick for posting snippet by Eamonn McCann: http://sluggerotoole.com/2013/05/22/eamonn-mccann-people-sometimes-say-these-traditions-have-gone-on-forever-no-they-have-not/ This year’s annual policy conference of the Community Relations Council (CRC) was held in Derry-Londonderry, a fresh change... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- What do we bicker about, when bickering about ‘terrorism’?
Liberal Conspiracy (Today) - What do we bicker about, when we bicker about terrorism? More or less everything except terrorism, is my suspicion. Here are a few of my observations about the responses I've seen to the bloodcurdling horror in... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- UK may be three quarters of the way through debt purge - Fisher Reuters UK News (Today) - CARDIFF (Reuters) - Britain may be as much as three quarters of the way through the process of working off the high debt levels which have weighed on the economy since the financial crisis, a... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›