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- The AA and manipulation of the petrol price
Adam Smith Institute Blog (Today) - On Friday the AA hit the newspapers with the allegation that there are shadowy companies in the petrol market. Speculators even: they buy up petrol, sit on it until the price rises and then, horrors,... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Dying and killing, killing and dying
Open Democracy (Today) - Our columnist explores the language and the headlines of dying and killing, from Tibet to the United States to Iraq. Headlines. Itis hard not to be obsessed with death these days. I have never laid claimed... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- Adam Afriyie: Why I'm optimistic about the future of our country and our Party
Conservative Home - Comment (Today) - Adam Afriyie is the Member of Parliament for Windsor and Co-Chair of the 2020 Conservatives Economic Commission. He was Shadow Minister for Science and Innovation from 2007 to 2010. I’m proud of our country and... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- You can always rely on the Conservatives to ignore the public when it comes to Europe
Labour List (Today) - Europe is not often the issue which comes top of people’s concerns on the doorstep. Nor do opinion polls suggest that Europe is a priority for voters when compared to issues like the economy or... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Young and without a future
Socialist Courier (Today) - A report for the Scotland Institute – The Changing Face Of Youth Unemployment In Scotland 1992 To 2012 – found that over the past two decades, youth employment has gone from being characterised as consisting... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- So Grandad, Where Did It All Go Wrong?
British National Party (Today) - By Richard Alderley. *That's actually the wrong question and because it is the incorrect question it leads you to a false conclusion. The proper way of examining our country's dilemma is to ask "Why didn't... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- The SNP tries to have its cake and eat it
Cicero's Songs (Yesterday) - When is a separate state not a separate state? Apparently, when it is proposed by the SNP. A leading luminary of the party, Andrew Wilson, is making the case that because British identity- a more or... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- China’s Leaders Abroad; What the First Visits Tell Us
The Diplomat (Yesterday) - The new Chinese leadership took office in early March. In the two months since, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Vice President Li Yuanchao, Yang Jiechi, State Councilor in charge of managing foreign affairs, and Foreign Minister... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- What the?
Ben Lomond Free Press (Yesterday) - Some things it seems are always with us. The boom and bust economic cycle, the weather and bad news spring to mind here. And then there are these curious annual events like the publication of... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- Hamish McRae: Should Italy push for more fiscal prudence in this age of austerity?
Hamish McRae (Yesterday) - It is a funny time in Italy. On paper the country's economy has now shrunk for seven consecutive quarters, making it the longest recession since the Second World War, and leaving it some 8 per... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Social Europe my arse; once the EU sided with the banks and big business against its people it became a busted flush.
Organised Rage (Yesterday) - For years the electorate has overwhelmingly opposed Britain's membership of the European Union – particularly those who work for a living. Yet while movements in other countries that are critical of the EU are led... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Fiscal prioritisation: Lessons from three wars
Vox.eu (Yesterday) - Can we learn from previous instances of fiscal prioritisation? This column surveys the US Treasury’s response to three wars – the Revolutionary War, The War of 1812 and the Civil War. Contemporary advocates of engaging... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Ten reasons why the Left should like the ASI, 9: Choice
- The Tories want out of Europe. Let's try to get out of this depression instead
The Guardian - Politics (Yesterday) - Even Francophile Conservatives now want Britain to go it alone. But it's not the euro that's holding us back: it's the governmentAccording to Greek mythology, Cerberus was the many-headed hound that stood at the gates... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Barack Obama must act like a true leader | Observer editorial
Guardian Comment is Free (Politics) (Yesterday) - It is always hard for an American president in the second term, but both his country and the world need Obama to show strength and courage and put scandal behind himIt is a simple fact... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- The Tories want out of Europe. Let's try to get out of this depression instead
Politics + Comment (Yesterday) - Even Francophile Conservatives now want Britain to go it alone. But it's not the euro that's holding us back: it's the governmentAccording to Greek mythology, Cerberus was the many-headed hound that stood at the gates... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Tories just about held it together in the past. This time it's different | Andrew Rawnsley
Andrew Rawnsley (Yesterday) - The Conservative factions are warring so zealously over Europe that a formal split in the party is not unthinkableAs the Conservative party has spent the past week tearing itself and the reputation of its leader... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Booker: we can't have our cake and eat it in the EU
EU Referendum (Yesterday) - How symbolic it was, writes Booker, that just when those 114 Tory MPs were voting to deplore the omission from the Queen’s Speech of any mention of an in/out referendum on the EU, the EU's... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- The governor's eyebrows point to an upturn
David Smith's Economics UK (Yesterday) - My regular column is available to subscribers on www.thesundaytimes.co.uk This is an excerpt. The CBI, the employers’ organisation, says Britain’s economy is “moving from flat to growth”. The Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Fury at corporate tax avoidance leads to call for a global response
- Eric Schmidt defends Google's tax affairs following Commons criticism
- Exit The EU From The Left
David Lindsay (Yesterday) - In The Guardian (yes, The Guardian, although of course there have been rumours about it for years), Bob Crow writes:For years the electorate has overwhelmingly opposed Britain's membership of the European Union – particularly those who... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- Tories just about held it together in the past. This time it's different | Andrew Rawnsley
- This is a new, farcical low and David Cameron is losing control | Geoffrey Howe
- Out, out, out! Can anybody stem the Eurosceptic tide?