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Mark D'Arcy (Today) - So far in 2013, the Coalition has had its first complete split over the parliamentary boundaries review (29 January), seen 116 Conservative MPs vote for a motion regretting the lack of an EU referendum in... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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Cambria Politico (Today) - Apparently there are two versions of this entity we know as Wales. First, the visceral one: The Jeremy Clarkson ‘eye on the world’ view. The “isn’t everything crap?” approach. Wales isn’t us, says the ubermensch... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- [VIDEO] Woolwich Terrorist Defends Actions Immediately After Attack.
The Blue Guerilla (Today) - H/T Alexander Wickham [Source]Police shoot and arrest suspects [Source]Reports suggest one assailant was captured on film saying - "We swear by almighty Allah that we will never stop fighting you".... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- A Culture of Paedophilia?
British National Party (Today) - As headline chasing media and politicians react to the Oxford grooming scandal and reports of 54 further grooming gang investigations As headline chasing media and politicians react to the Oxford grooming scandal and reports of... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Islamic Terror Link to Woolwich 'Beheading' of Soldier
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Jo Swinson MP (Today) - The Government established the National Trading Standards Board (NTSB) for England and Wales in April 2012, following our consultation on ‘Empowering and Protecting Consumers’. Since... more …... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Google boss calls for a 'rational and predictable international tax system'
The Guardian - Politics (Today) - Eric Schmidt rejects Ed Miliband's criticisms of tax affairs, saying firm fears being 'double or quadruple taxed' under any changesThe Google chairman, Eric Schmidt, has told political leaders to sort out a rational and predictable... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- I am the beneficiary of the house-price boom. My children are its victims | Suzanne Moore
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- A dystopian society
Albion Alliance (Today) - Regular readers will know that fairly regularly I link to articles by Christopher Booker on the subject of our children’s social services. Courtesy of Ian Parker-Joseph comes this story from Scotland which would appear to... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News› - Woolwich attack: Women passers-by hailed as heroes for shielding body of dead soldier
Daily Telegraph - Politics (Today) - Woolwich attack: Women passers-by shielded body of soldier beheaded by two suspected terrorists. ... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- Treasury raises extra £1.3 billion from income tax in first month of 45p rate
- Austerity is a task for another day, IMF tells George Osborne
- David Cameron tries to placate the swivel-eyed loons with his natural leadership skills
- Independent sector providers took on more NHS-funded work as use of privately funded health care faltered
Institute for Fiscal Studies (Today) - Over the first decade of the 2000s, rapid growth in public health spending was matched by a slowdown in the growth of private health spending. At the same time, an increasing volume of publicly funded... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- Some shale factoids
Purple Scorpion (Today) - Nick Grealy has been at the Institute of Directors shale conference today on the release of their latest report. The report puts shale prospects into an economic context of imports and taxation. Here are some... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Woolwich terror attack: Cameron and Miliband respond
The Staggers (Today) - "The terrorists never win because they cannot defeat the values we hold dear," says Cameron after the beheading of a British soldier in Woolwich.David Cameron and Ed Miliband have now both responded to the suspected... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Cameron returns to London after Woolwich killing
Gary Gibbon (Today) - David Cameron returns early from talks with French President Francois Hollande after being told about events in Woolwich.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- Same-sex marriage has become a matter of life or death
Alexander Boot (Today) - The death in question is that of Dominique Venner, eminent French writer and historian. After he made the news, bottom of Page 49 or thereabouts, the modifier ‘extreme right-wing’ has been inevitably attached to his... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- Will “None of the Above” Steal UKIP’s Protest Vote?
Descrier - Politics (Today) - Much was made of UKIP's success at the recent local elections at the expense of the three main parties, and most notably the Tories. Traditionally it has been the Lib Dems that surge in the... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Is the Musudan Real?
Arms Control Wonk (Today) - The other day, I posted an entry at 38North outlining three scenarios for North Korea — that North Korea would eventually test a Musudan, that China has stayed Kim Jong Un’s hand for the moment... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›