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Paul Owen (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
The latest poll , this one by ICM for the Sunday Telegraph, shows a slightly more comfortable lead for the Conservatives over Labour. This one, in contrast to recent polls which have prompted alarm - not least from me - have pointed to a hung Parliament. It looks as though all of these polls are coming out more or less with the same ball park figures. The differences can be largely put down...
[frockwriter] (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... would be aware, I have been tracking some of these stories over the past twelve months. Sydney's Sunday Telegraph newspaper asked me to develop the post into a small feature (which they titled "Dying for success"). Many thanks to models.com's Wayne Sterling, Sophie Ward and Vikki Graham for availing themselves for interviews at short notice. Here's the story: THE fashion industry...
A Pint of Unionist Lite (Free subscription) | yesterday
Alan Pearce is a journalist, broadcaster and author who has covered conflicts around the world for a variety of news organisations, including Time Magazine, The Times, Sunday Times and Sunday Telegraph.He’s also the author of the two latest additions to the Unionist Lite Bookstore, both guaranteed to make your blood boil, tear your hair out and thank your lucky stars that our Betters are...
Baby Chums (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
A consultant from the infamous Baby P clinic has broken her silence ahead of an NHS London report, exposing how Great Ormond Street tried to buy her silence. Dr. Kim Holt, former consultant for the pediatric clinic at St Ann’s Hospital, Haringey, has told The Sunday Telegraph that Great Ormond Street Hospital staff offered her 120,000 [...] Source: Baby Chums
Suitably Despairing (Free subscription) | yesterday
I was listening to the radio as I went to bed on Saturday night, with two talking heads I'd never heard of reviewing the next day's papers with a presenter I'd never heard of (and who was so bad, I never want to hear again. But that's a whole other story). There was a report which they said was in the Sunday Telegraph, although I can't find it on their website, which claimed that half of the...
StyleList Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
... The shoot includes a former "Biggest Loser" contestant turned plus-size model. [ Sunday Telegraph ] Lady Gaga Gets the Royal Treatment In today's Gaga news, the singer wore glittery red eyeshadow and a matching Elizabethan-inspired latex frock to meet Queen Elizabeth last night. As you do. [ Mirror ] A.M. Links: Akris Taps Daphne Guinness, Naomi Campbell, Reality TV Judge? originally...
Twilight News (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
It seems that a cardboard cutout of Robert Pattinson is giving health authorities cause for concern. Too many people kissing Rob vicariously might lead to swine flu. Digital Spy explains: “The Sunday Telegraph reports that employees have now placed a notice on the cutout which reads: “Please help reduce the spread of germs by refraining [...]
SOCIALIZED MEDICINE (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... “appalling failure” to protect vulnerable children. In an exclusive interview with The Sunday Telegraph, Dr Kim Holt told how she and all three of her senior colleagues raised concerns — more than a year before 17-month-old Peter Connelly came to the clinic in summer 2007 — that it was “falling apart” and that a child would die if action was not taken....
Twilight Lexicon (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
It seems that a cardboard cutout of Robert Pattinson is giving health authorities cause for concern. Too many people kissing Rob vicariously might lead to swine flu. Digital Spy explains: “The Sunday Telegraph reports that employees have now placed a notice on the cutout which reads: “Please help reduce the spread of germs by refraining [...]
Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Open Europe Europe Britain locked out of French talks on "battle plan" to defend CAP The Sunday Telegraph reported that the French government has summoned a meeting of what it calls the 'G22' in Paris this week - senior ministers from 22 EU member states - in an attempt to influence a rethink of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). However, it has not invited Britain or other...
Insurance Daily (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
British Gas has plans to expand in the UK insurance market. According to a report in The Sunday Telegraph, the group’s ambitions include a listing among the UK’s top 10 insurance providers. The company, which is owned by Centrica and has a customer base of 4.5 million, has been granted Financial Services Authority approval to underwrite its [...]
UK Commentators (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Commenter Tendryakov, who I think I've seen here, deconstructs Sarah Sands' gushing hymn to multicultural Britain. Sands : " Queenie understands the drabness of Britain without immigration ... the real point of diversity, on television and in life, is not that is correct but that it is vibrant ." Ms Sands is a posh girl from Tunbridge Wells who lasted eight months as editor of the ...
War News Updates (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
The current threat level posed by republican terrorists is described as 'severe', the official definition of which means that an attack remains 'highly likely' Photo: PA Republican Terrorists Plan 'Christmas Spectacular' Attack On British Troops -- The Telegraph Republican terrorists are planning to launch a "Christmas spectacular" attack on British troops in Northern Ireland, The ...
Lightwater (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
You maybe among the nearly one in two voters believes there is no proof that mankind is causing global warming, in an ICM poll for the Sunday Telegraph. If so, there’s a new source of knowledge on the subject. It’s The Global Warming Policy Foundation. I reckon that we should all be allowed to make up our own [...]
Lynne Featherstone's Parliament and Haringey diary (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Kim Holt has finally broken cover over the health team’s part in the Baby Peter tragedy with an interview in the Sunday Telegraph with Andrew Gilligan. Who is Kim? She is (or rather was) a senior paediatric consultant in Haringey’s child protection health team. Kim first came to me (over a year ago), terrified to talk to [...]
