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The TaxPayers' Alliance (Free subscription) | 02/25/2010
... Washington Ambassador, Sir Michael Peat, Prince Charles’s private secretary, and the economist Ruth Lea. The agreement to allow the party to borrow the sum if needed at base rate plus 3 per cent was negotiated in November. Papers from Companies House show that Arbuthnot changed its name in 1994 from Aitken Hume Bank, which was run by Mr Aitken, a former minister. The company refused to comment....
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ToUChstone blog (Free subscription) | 02/23/2010
... It’s fertile ground for climate sceptics – the casual remarks that allow, say, a panelist (Ruth Lea) on last week’s BBC Question Time to associate the closure of the steel plant on Teesside with energy price rises driven by “government’s climate change policies”. Or for a Conservative MP on the Energy Bill Committee to throw in a comment that “scientific evidence is in some doubt.” We beg...
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Biased BBC (Free subscription) | 02/18/2010
Welcome to the Question Time Live-Chat, with your hosts All Seeing Eye and David Mosque. The panel tonight are Roy Hattersley , Rory Stewart , Lynne Featherstone , Ruth Lea and Tom Conti . We'll be kicking off at 22:30 UK time and carrying on until the lights fall on yet another edition of This Week . Enjoy... Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
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Mark Reckons (Free subscription) | 02/18/2010
... MP Lynne Featherstone, the economist and former head of policy at the Institute of Directors Ruth Lea and the actor and novelist Tom Conti. Join us from 10:30pm below: BBC Question Time - 18th February 2010
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Capitalists@Work (Free subscription) | 02/18/2010
David Dimbleby will be joined in Middlesbrough by Roy Hattersley, Rory Stewart, Lynne Featherstone, Ruth Lea and Tom Conti. Tough one again this week as there doesn't seem to be a central news focus. BQ is going for Mossad, false beards and passports. Crying Brown. Cynical manipulation or a genuine desire to inform the public? Unemployment figures down, benefits up. Is this good or bad? Should...
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Lightwater (Free subscription) | 02/19/2010
... individual scores. Cruel, yes. But nothing wrong in that. Tom Conti: better than expected – 6, Ruth Lea, tried to tough it out over no state support – 5, Rory Stewart, unquestionably a star performer - 9, Roy Hattersley, an old-Labour dinosaur – 7, Lynne Featherstone, unusually for a LibDem, didn’t offend – 6 Final point. Dimbleby failed to ask Rory Stewart about his motivations about becoming...
