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- Green Party Leader Blames Terror Attack on UK 'Acting Like World's Policeman'.
The Blue Guerilla (Today) - NATALIE BENNETT has told reporters today that she believes the brutal murder of a serving British soldier on the streets of Woolwich, London is due to UK foreign policy. The Leader of the Green Party... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- News story: Woolwich incident - government response
Ministry of Defence (Today) - Statements from Prime Minister David Cameron, the Home Secretary and the Metropolitan Police about the death of a soldier in Woolwich.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Cable welcomes German research group
Financial Times - Politics £ (Today) - The business secretary hopes opening a branch of the German applied research organisation will help British innovations become viable products... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- UK terror suspects known to security services
- My week in Parliament
Graham Jones MP (Today) - WEEKLY PARLIAMENTARY BULLETIN(20th – 21st MAY 2013)Summary of this week in Parliament:• Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Bill, Report and Third Reading• Motion and Government Statement on Syria and the EU arms embargo• Urgent Question on A&E... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Payment by results: ‘soft outcomes’ and the needs of funders
Institute for Government (Today) - One of the themes that emerged during our first workshop at the IfG was the tension between ‘soft outcomes’ and the needs of funders. While colleagues from the Civil Service can appreciate the needs of... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Churchill, alcohol and government records: why our national archives matter
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- John Reid, the security industry's salesman in the House of Lords
Open Democracy (Today) - LordReid was quick to exploit a brutal murder to promote the surveillance state. AnthonyBarnett is right to recoil at Lord Reid's response to yesterday's murder of an off-dutysoldier, 25 year old Drummer Lee Rigby:"Itis intolerable... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Mario Dunn: Royal Mail Privatisation - Do We Want This?
Huffington Post UK Politics Blog (Today) - A major privatisation is about to take place. One would think this would give the government something to crow about but strangely the opposite is true. The government plans to flog off the Royal Mail... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Dr James Hannam: A Plea From a Eurosceptic Tory
- Guest Post Spam
Longrider (Today) - I’ve been getting another spate of requests to spam this blog with guest posts by spammers who, frankly, can’t write coherent English, so are in with no chance from the off. Thing is, what part... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- McLeod addresses Yes Wigtownshire launch event
Aileen McLeod MSP (Today) - SNP MSP for the South of Scotland Dr Aileen McLeod addressed the launch event of Yes Wigtownshire in Stranraer’s Ryan Centre on Saturday alongside the Yes campaign’s Dennis Canavan and Tam Dewar from Labour for... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Woolwich
British National Party (Today) - By Austen Davies-The anger has gone now; the initial rage that swept through my being like a red veil has subsided to a residue of disgust and contempt and, 24 hours on, I can begin... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Update: Pensions Equality
38 Degrees - Blog (Today) - Tuesday 21st May was an historic day for the UK. The milestone Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill passed through the House of Commons for the final time with a huge majority. Equal marriage opportunities for... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Technology isn’t just something for geeks to worry about
Labour List (Today) - If you Google ‘Ed Miliband,’ you quickly get the old stuff about him being a bit of geek. His appearance at Google’s big Tent on Wednesday almost begged the headline “Geek Goes Home”. But that... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- New Forth bridge plans move ahead
BBC Scotland - Politics (Today) - MSPs passed a bill to set up a new company to manage the Forth Road Bridge, the new Forth Crossing and the surrounding roads.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- A political affront?
Witterings From Witney (Today) - “It is no more the function of government to impose a moral code than to impose a religious code. And for the same reason. Robert MacIver On the basis that environmentalism has most definitely achieved... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Woolwich and Terror: We Must Resist Having Our Enemies Constructed For Us
Scriptonite Daily (Today) - An astonishing, unprovoked machete attack has taken place on the streets of Britain. Woolwich? No, Birmingham. Just weeks ago, 75 year old Mohammed Saleem was butchered with a machete just yards from his front door... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- A chillingly bizarre aspect of yesterday’s ranting butcher video
Liberal Burblings (Today) - This lady (below) wondered unconcerned and, apparently oblivious of the mayhem going on, past the ranting butcher waving a cleaver in blood-stained hands. I have erased the image of her face to avoid recognition. Tweet... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Right to Buy on the increase in Great Yarmouth
Brandon Lewis MP (Today) - I was very pleased to hear that, in the last year, the number of council house tenants in Great Yarmouth choosing to buy their property from the council has risen by 133%. Launched in April... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- Spare a thought for Woolwich police
Alexander Boot (Today) - A friend of mine, a card-carrying fruitcake and swivel-eyed loon, may be British, but he simply doesn’t understand how this country works.In his blog today he bemoans the tardiness of Woolwich police who took twenty... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Fact not fiction: Renewable energy is safer than nuclear power
Greenpeace Making Waves Blog (Today) - Take a look at what Jan Bens, chief of Belgium’s nuclear watchdog FANC, had to say about wind turbines the other day:"The harbour of Antwerp is being filled with windmills, and the chemical industry is... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Bell lays claim to Acton project
Phil Taylor (Today) - On a site visit checking on progress of the new pool, leisure centre, library & community spaces at #Acton Town Hall £18m #Labour investment — Julian Bell (@juliangbell) May 23, 2013 Council leader Julian Bell... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Shamed UKIP MEP submits lame duck complaint to Scrapbook
Political Scrapbook (Today) - In the wake of Scrapbook publishing comments by Godfrey Bloom MEP that he “hoped thousands of jobs will be lost” in the public sector, the office of the UKIP economic spokesman have been scratching around to... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›