November 15, 2006
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State Opening of Parliament today – a good day to bury bad news, so keep your eyes peeled.Already, we have: UK unemployment at seven year high – see the Office for National Statistics for the full report. Oh, there was … Continue reading
November 5, 2006
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Britain is supposed to be morally and legally opposed to the death penalty, so why is Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett expressing her support for the psycho ex-dictator’s imminent execution? Yes, the guy’s guilty (and guilty of far more than he … Continue reading
November 2, 2006
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Policeman in “does his job” shocker!
November 1, 2006
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Something new from me over at The Sharpener, providing some context to John Reid’s recent comments about the need for fresh innovation to combat terrorism.
October 26, 2006
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As if it wasn’t enough to have spent the last nine years under the most legislation-happy government in forever (who love the idea of new laws so much they want to bypass parliament through the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill … Continue reading
September 28, 2006
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Home Secretary John Reid, in his speech to the Labour party conference in Manchester: “It’s not Muslims versus the rest of us, it’s evil terrorists on one side against all civilised people on the other.” Meanwhile, a couple of hundred … Continue reading
September 26, 2006
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yet observ’d Their dread Commander: he above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a Towr; his form had yet not lost All her Original brightness, nor appear’d Less then Arch Angel ruind, and th’ excess Of … Continue reading
September 13, 2006
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Insanely busy again, but this annoyed me: “A newly qualified squaddie facing suicide bombers, snipers and rockets round the clock earns two thirds of a British policeman’s wage; in a combat zone the 16-hour watches give an hourly rate of … Continue reading
September 11, 2006
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Wouldn’t it be nice if similar scenes greeted Blair on his return?(Without the bombed-out buildings, infrastructure reduced to rubble, and human suffering on an almost unimaginable scale, naturally… I meant the protests… Erm…)
September 8, 2006
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Why can’t disgraced former Home Secretary (and apparently still a leadership hopeful) Charles Clarke make up his mind? Is he for or against infighting within the Labour party? It’s only been a week since he was firmly against it, two … Continue reading
September 8, 2006
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It really is the end times… Extracts from today’s Quentin Letts column, reporting on Blair’s visit to Quintin Kynaston school in north London yesterday, where he announced his plans to depart office within twelve months: “By 1240 hours the noise … Continue reading
September 7, 2006
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Blair will step down “within the next 12 months”? Better than nothing, admittedly, but now he’s got precisely the problem that he always said he’d have if he announced a date – no policy initiatives seen to be coming from … Continue reading
September 7, 2006
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After my speculation late yesterday, The New Statesman has finally put that David Miliband interview online. A quote I haven’t seen before: “We look at the debate which says, ‘Either we have a smooth transition or you have a train … Continue reading
September 6, 2006
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Since this morning’s resignations, a few rumours have begun to circulate about the possibility that a senior cabinet minister is set to resign. Whether there’s any truth to these, I have no idea – Tory blogger Iain Dale, who has … Continue reading