Politics

Dark side of the Daily Mirror

November 30, 2011
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On the Left, when commentators are groping for an argument, it is an occasional theme is to attack the Daily Mail for having supported Oswald Mosley’s British Fascist movement for a time 80 years ago in the 1930s. The line has become a standard Aunt Sally to provide prejudicial background in pieces about the Mail. [...]

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9/11: Muslim vs Muslim

September 13, 2011
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Charles Crawford was British Ambassador in Belgrade when the World Trade Centre was attacked. Here he reflects on his reaction. This post first appeared at Charles’ site on 11 September. I returned to the Embassy in Belgrade to be told to watch on TV what was happening in New York. I did. The Twin Towers [...]

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Separating Politics and Policing

August 29, 2011
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This is a crosspost from Malpoet’s Weblog. In the wake of the riots we were bombarded with competing claims about who controlled them. The police are sure that the successful tactics were evolved by them while the politicians say that it all got sorted when they returned from holiday. I think that the riots stopped [...]

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Ed Miliband’s Money Quote on Pensions

July 28, 2011
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This is from the Labour Party’s Annual Report and Accounts, registered with the Electoral Commission, on page 19: “Following the UK Government’s announcement in summer 2010, the inflation index to be used to derive statutory pensions increases has been changed from the Retail Prices Index (RPI) to the Consumer Prices Index (CPI). Due to a [...]

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Crimewatcher

June 22, 2011

Good Evening and Welcome to CRIMEWATCHER. On tonight’s show we will be exposing a fraud so massive that it has affected everyone alive today in the UK, as well as those of the next 3 future generations. Your great great grandchildren will have to pay for the weaknesses for this generation. This crime has been [...]

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The Price of Devastation.

March 15, 2011
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We look at the devastation wrought on Japan and recoil in horror. So many lives lost, so many homes to be rebuilt, so much employment lost for ever. An earthquake, followed by a Tsunami, followed by an explosion in their nuclear plant. Could any country suffer more? It is a vision of Armageddon that we [...]

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Lie Back and Think of Government.

March 14, 2011
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The Government becomes ever more inventive in getting Nanny’s message across. Now beer mats and beer glasses are to display the calorie count – will they have a different glass for each beer? Fast food chains and sandwich bars are to display calorie counts on menus – will Dirty Dick’s Diner have the means to [...]

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