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.
History, Economics and Politics (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
This is great Tory election poster from 1909 and was part of the campaign against Lloyd George's People's Budget. It is part of the recently digitised collection of election posters from the Conservative Party Archive, held at the Bodleian Library.
Burning our money (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
As you will know, George managed to fumble his sums over raising the state pension age. Which is really rather concerning. George reckoned bringing forward the planned increase in the State Pension Age (SPA) to 66 would save £13bn pa. But the National Institute (NIESR) - on whose figures George is supposed to have based his proposal - have denied it. They say : "The...
The centre due to open on Wednesday (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
Illegal Edo Blue chelsea languish in Libyan prisons. PM Yuliya Tymoshenko paid an official visit to Libya, where she and Libyan Secretary of the General People. S National Oil Corp, Shokri Ghanem, lange that Libya is studying investing in Italian companies, especially Enel and Eni. Libya demands from the EU to stop illegal immigration. S cooperation Thursday in keeping would be African immigrants...
Devizes Melting Pot (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
... income than the less well off has been a mainstay of the broadly progressive outlook since Lloyd George’s people’s budget of 1909, and it is high time the principle was restored.It is not as if the elite live on another planet. It is unacceptable for a small number of plutocrats to pay little or nothing to the public purse, while benefiting disproportionately from the things for which...
