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Lightwater (Free subscription) | yesterday
The press and the media criticise Conservatives for lack of policy detail, wrongly in my view, it’s persistent warped spin from Labour that’s uncritically accepted by the left-leaning media. When the Conservatives continue to announce and explain their policies in fine detail, the commentariat go missing. Such is the case with Michael Gove’s, Shadow Secretary of State for Children,...
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Dissecting Leftism (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
Politically-correct double standard spawned mass murder at Fort Hood by Muslim soldier A Muslim soldier shot dead 11 soldiers and two civilians at Fort Hood yesterday, shouting the Muslim expression "Allahu Akbar." But in an absurd display of political correctness, media reports barely mentioned the religion angle, choosing instead to highlight the fact that he was an "army psychiatrist"...
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Layers Upon Layers (Free subscription) | yesterday
I’m all for something that can lift us up. If a book or action can have us behave and think more positively, hey, why not? So that’s why I was particularly happy to read Think Confident, Be Confident by Leslie Sokol and Marci Fox. For those that have read “self help” books before, you’ll find more of the same motivating speech in this book. Where the book differs, however,...
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auntie joanna writes (Free subscription) | yesterday
...speaks out. Read the speech by the Chief Rabbi, Lord Sacks in today's press His criticism of moral relativism is timely and trenchant. Wouldn't it be good if we had some Bishops who spoke out like this? Defending the place of religion in public life, Lord Sacks said : "The place for religion is in civil society, where it achieves many things essential to liberal democratic freedom. It sanctifies...
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Stephen Mold's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Last night I went to hear Shadow Children’s Secretary, Michael Gove, set out the five priorities on school reform for a future Conservative Government. In a speech to the Centre for Policy Studies yesterday, Gove pledged that a Conservative government "will improve standards for all pupils and close the attainment gap between the richest and poorest". He outlined a five-point plan for...
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Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The Federal Union blog05 November 2009Six pledges by David CameronThe speech by Conservative leader David Cameron yesterday dropped the previous commitment to a referendum on the Lisbon treaty and replaced it with six pledges that he aims to achieve in the course of the next parliament. (Read the speech here.) Arch-opponents of the EU like Daniel Hannan and Roger Helmer have protested about the
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The Hollywood Gossip (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Most things sound better when master thespian William Shatner recites it over soothing, melodic percussion. Levi Johnston's Twitter page (real or fake) is no exception. Levi is furious over a skit on last night's Tonight Show in which Levi came off looking like a moronic, racially insensitive pothead ... by virtue of his own Twitter page. His alleged Twitter page, anyway. The attorney for the future...
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Collecting my Thoughts (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
He writes a blog called Three Score and Ten or More , and sometimes calls himself an old coot. He's seen and done it all--was a Mormon missionary as a young man in Finland, had a career in theater, he's a father, grandfather, husband, handyman, traveler, and writer of a blog. Recently he wrote about fear--with a lead in about things that go bump in the night through out our life times. Every thing...
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From Beyond the Stave (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Bálint András Varga’s recently published György Kurtág: Three Interviews and Ligeti Homages is a compelling view of the composer at work and his unquenchable thirst for artistic and human impressions. Rather than trying to find a representative piece from the interviews to excerpt, we decided to use one of Kurtág’s pieces on Ligeti : these demonstrate the...
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Wisconsin Technology Network (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
President Obama delivered remarks in Madison about a clean energy economy that will free America from the grip of foreign oil and generate millions of good-paying jobs in the process. He spoke about offering the best possible education to America's sons and daughters. "The prosperity of our nation has long rested on how well we educate our children," said Obama. But, this has never been more...
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Daniel1979 Blog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
So there it is, straight from the horse’s mouth, a Cameron Conservative Government: - Will accept Lisbon and will not hold a referendum. - Will attempt to repatriate some Social and Employment laws, (which remain unspecified). - Will seek an opt-out on the Charter of Fundamental Rights. - Will offer a referendum guarantee on future power transfers to Brussels. - Will pass a British Sovereignty...
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Neither here nor there. (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
It cannot be stated any clearer. If there is no two state solution, there will be a one state solution with all that implies. For those who doubt go read Ben Gurion's speech at the the time of the declration of independence.
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[objet petit a] (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Earlier this afternoon the Tory leader David Cameron gave a speech on his party's European policy - you can read the speech in full over at Iain Dale's blog . Andrew Sparrow at the Graun summarises it as follows: First, [Cameron] will legislate to ensure that there has to be a referendum whenever powers are transferred to Europe. He says the "referendum lock" will cover not just those occasions...
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illinoisreview (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Yesterday in Springfield, former Attorney General Jim Ryan announced his intentions to be the seventh Republican candidate for governor in the February 2, 2010 primary. We found his announcement speech on his website, and thought you might like to read...