George William Curtis: A Eulogy Delivered Before The People Of Staten Island, At The Castleton, St. George, February, 1893
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
A lawyer, Mr. Abass Oyewale-Freeman, said, yesterday, that the court could grant Chief Olabode George and others convicted of corrupt practices bail pending the hearing of their appeal.
David Lindsay (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Today is the centenary of the rejection by the House of Lords of Lloyd George's People's Budget. But a vote for the Lib Dems today would be as pointless an expression of any Nonconformist social conscience as it would be of any identification with the 1930s peace-mongering of Sir Herbert Samuel (see the Lib Dems' record on Afghanistan, and before that on Yugoslavia), or with Emlyn Hooson's...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... practices, the source said. Parliament last sat through the summer in 1909 to implement Lloyd George's "People's Budget". The idea is being floated by senior members of the shadow cabinet as they look at the implications of an austerity emergency budget within 50 days of taking office after an election expected on 6 May. That timescale suggests an emergency budget by the...
