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Archbishop Cranmer (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without the annual Daily Mail blurb about Christmas being banned somewhere or other: lights being renamed to accommodate other religions; Santa being banned on health and safety grounds; reindeer having their animal rights restored; carol singers barred from shopping centres; Winterval supplanting any mention of Christ; nativity plays replaced with the Grinch;...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Business secretary wins top accolade in Westminster awards ceremony Lord Mandelson was dubbed the "undisputed alpha male of the Westminster village" today after scooping one of the top accolades at a Westminster awards ceremony. The business secretary, whose surprise comeback earned him the best newcomer prize in last year's Threadneedle/Spectator contest, was this time named politician...
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EU Referendum (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Time to leave Waziristan, at least temporarily (and yes, since you ask, I do know where it is). Here are a few links of interest. The House of Lords has published a report on Codecision and national parliamentary scrutiny and full of interesting things it is, too. Before I write about it in detail I wish to call attention to a couple of extremely useful if bewildering flow-charts. The first shows the...
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The Wardman Wire (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
A motion to exclude MEPs from the Westminster Parliamentary Estate was passed on Tuesday evening : 15 Access to Parliament (United Kingdom Members of the European Parliament) Resolved, That the Resolutions of the House of 30 January 1989 relating to House of Commons Services and 6 December 1991 relating to Access (Former members and United Kingdom Members of the European Parliament) shall cease to...
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My Personal Thoughts (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
To Editor East Kent Gazette I know you do not like my political letters but I have to take issue with Ashley Wise in his assumption that Politically Correctness is rare and that there is no Politically Correct Guardian where has he been living in the last few years in outer space, he is like an Ostrich who puts his head the sand when he does not want see anything. Let me just give a few examples The...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Mainstream British voters and MPs elected to what the BNP calls the "one-party state" at Westminster will have to get used to the kind of publicity the far right has attracted this week. Their European neighbours have put up with it for years. In the space of a few days the main parties have nominated champions to face Nick Griffin, BNP leader and new MEP, on BBC1's Question Time next Thursday....
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Labourlist (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
By Rupa Huq I've attended two Labour events recently which have had me feeling as if I was having an out-of-body experience - as I found myself addressed as part of the ethnic electorate. On Friday Harriet Harman came to speak to an Ealing Southall CLP fundraising dinner . She began by declaring that judging from the welcome she got (petals strewn at her feet and Indian dancers banging drums) she...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
An effective ban on British National party members of the European Parliament entering Westminster was imposed by MPs. Leader of the house Harriet Harman tabled a motion withdrawing automatic access hitherto available to all MEPs. Leader Nick Griffin was one of two BNP MEPs elected in June; the party's website said he had been due to attend a Commons function. Labour MP John McDonnell led the campaign...
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nufc1892 blog on Absolute Radio (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Protesters in Brussels have found a new way to show their displeasure: squirting milk straight from a cow at riot police. We look at other odd protests from around the world. Milking is far from the only novel way of expressing – so to speak – one’s anger. Getting naked, throwing shoes at presidents, getting naked, dressing like a superhero, throwing custard at Lords of the Realm,...
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Boulton (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
The Tory party has always loved a glamorous blonde: Margaret Thatcher, Michael Heseltine... And now the Conservatives' favourite blonde bombshell is, obviously, Boris Johnson. Hurricane Boris breezed into a windy Manchester on Sunday evening having already embarrassed David Cameron with his off-message call for a referendum on the Lisbon treaty even if it has been ratified. Not long after he arrived,...
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Theo Spark (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
Harriet Harman failed to leave details at scene of car crash, allege witnesses. You're Not in Chicago Anymore, Barry... The Real Importance of The ACORN Scandal Story. Beware!! he was smart enough say nothing by promising everything, he may be dumb enough to get everything by saying nothing. DVLA withdraws 'homophobic' number-plates from auction. Army chief warns of 'terrifying prospect' of failure...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Foreign secretary rallies Labour at the end of its annual conference with speech describing the Conservatives as 'a national embarrassment' David Miliband today described the Conservatives as "a bunch of schoolboys" and "a national embarrassment" as he rallied Labour at the end of its annual conference. The foreign secretary accused David Cameron of surrendering to "Euro-extremists"...
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ireland.com (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
Businesses in Britain could be banned from claiming back tax on corporate entertainment visits to lap-dancing clubs, after Equalities Minister Harriet Harman denounced the practice.
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Working Class Tory (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
The inevitable, dishonest Daily Mirror article about the subject of my previous blogpost makes Daniel Hannan sound like a member of the National Front, and, as usual, was probably written by a 12 year old member of the race-relations industry, who fantasises about the day Harriet Harman declares Britain an Islamic Republic. It says : David Cameron was dragged into the US race row yesterday Where? By...
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