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- 'Swivel eye' showdown: Furious Tory grandees will quiz PM's friend on claims he called party faithful 'swivel-eyed loons'
James Chapman (Today) - Lord Feldman angrily denied making comments and hinted he may sue PM accepts his assurances that he didn't make comments to journalists But David Mellor says Lord Feldman should follow through on sue threat... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- The EU Olive Oil ban: Time for open defiance
Roger Helmer MEP (Today) - No. Honest. I’ve checked the date, and it’s May 19th (as I write), not All Fools’ Day (except in Brussels, where it’s All Fools’ Day all the time). It really does seem to be true... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- Scots NHS alert line takes UK calls
BBC Scotland - Politics (Today) - A third of calls to a confidential phone line which allows health workers in Scotland to raise concerns about the NHS came from other parts of the UK.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- Could RBS stay in an independent Scotland?
Robert Peston (Today) - Scotland, and Edinburgh in particular, has a world class financial services industry, in banking, insurance and fund management.The question posed by today's Scotland Analysis Paper from the Treasury is whether a Scotland that separated from... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- Two notions of liberty revisited - or how to disentangle Liberty and Slavery
Open Economy (Today) - The modern liberal concept of liberty has roots in Roman law and the Roman understanding of the master and the slave. We need to unpick that heritage to imagine a better basis for our political... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Peter Mandelson: Ed Miliband must show us Labour’s policies
Sun - Politics (Today) - PARTY veteran says it’s time Miliband ‘put the contents in the tin’ and spelt out what Labour would do in power... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- ‘Loons’ row, EU & gay marriage are ‘destroying’ Conservatives
- ‘Help me address the desperate crisis in UK care homes’
Adult Care Blog (Today) - The issues affecting care homes never seem to change. Why not? Today, the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust’s John Kennedy launches a year-long inquiry into how to make residential care work. Ever since I first worked... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- "some significant doubts about the quality of the new regime statistics"
Mark Wadsworth (Today) - Spare a thought for Iain Duncan Smith, and indeed his junior ministers at the Department of Work and Pensions, who, as if they aren't burdened enough by having to deal with one needless problem getting... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- MP "delighted" by West Sussex broadband announcement
Nick Herbert MP (Today) - Arundel & South Downs MP Nick Herbert has expressed his delight at the announcement by West Sussex County Council that superfast broadband will be…... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News› - PM warns overseas territories on tax
BBC News - Politics (Today) - David Cameron has called on British overseas territories to "get their house in order" and sign up to international treaties on tax.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Busting welfare myths
Adam Smith Institute Research (Today) - The welfare debate has roused emotions on both the left and right, and has led to some outlandish claims. Myth needs to be separated from reality. Here is my take on what we should and... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Hop on and off the bus for a ride to freedom and growth
Boris Johnson (Today) - It is the embodiment of the point I often make, that investment in London boosts the rest of the UK economy, directly and indirectly. We have stimulated the very best of British technology, creating jobs... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Labour: just let the Tories swivel
Shiraz Socialist (Today) - We’ve argued many times here at Shiraz, that the mainstream hard-left’s traditional hostility to the EU (and its predecessors) has been ignorant, short-sighted and counter-productive. It is based upon a fundamental misconception: that British workers’ difficulties stem from... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- The Number of the Beast Is 1667
Charles Hugh Smith (Today) - The Devil is in the details.The Devil, of course, always claims to be "doing God's work." Satan's job, as it were, is to deceive, and if claiming to be "doing God's work" deceives the credulous, then... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- One Barnet, DRS contract award and the Zombie Council
The Barnet Eye (Today) - Today sees the award of the One Barnet DRS contract. This is a ten year, multi million pound contract that will effectively mean that 70-80% of council business is in the hands of multi national... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Out with Matt and Carl in Westborough
Julian's Musings (Today) - There were definitely no mad, swivel-eyed loons out in Westborough this morning, either amongst the Labour campaign team or the welcoming residents. There were many positive conversations, as well as many worried about the state... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- British man confesses to slitting two children's throats in Lyon flat
John Lichfield (Today) - A British man yesterday confessed to killing his two children, aged five and 10, by cutting their throats, police sources said. The children’s bodies were discovered in a flat in a suburb of Lyon, France,... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Helicopter money as a policy option
Vox.eu (Today) - With persistently weak economic conditions becoming the norm in Europe, economists are considering increasingly unconventional policy options. One tool that has yet to be taken out of storage is ‘helicopter money’, i.e. the overt monetary... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Gay marriage: Grassroots Tories attack Cameron
Scotsman - Politics (Today) - CONSERVATIVE activists have attacked David Cameron’s support for gay marriage, claiming it made winning the next general election “virtually impossible”.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Disgraced MP Eric Joyce may force by-election
- Scottish independence: UK underplayed value of oil
- New Space is taking over (Part 2: The Lynx Engine)
Samizdata (Today) - Sad to say, the thing about which I know the most is the one about which I can say nothing except point you to what is public domain. Here is the video which XCOR released... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- Why is Labour so reticent about spelling out the true position on debt?
Michael Meacher MP (Today) - If there’s one thing that haunts Labour, however much the Tories are determined to commit hara kiri, it is the accusation that ‘Labour was responsible for all this mess in the first place’ by gross... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›