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Four year’s ago Ming Campbell was the Leader of the Lib Dems – I know it seems such a short while ago. In the Autumn of 2007, in a bid to save both himself and his party, he bizarrely proposed that there should be an in-out referendum on Britain’s future in the EU. I say [...]
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Britain and the Euro
I am not normally a fan of Peter Oborne – he looks a bit like a right-wing Gordon Brown. Having said that one cannot argue with the thesis he lays out in this very entertaining booklet on the disgraceful way Clegg, Huhne, Heseltine, Blair, the BBC and CBI tried to sell our currency down the [...]
“British jobs for British workers”
Image via Wikipedia Remember that phrase from our Brownian leader. Well, I guess his tune is changing yet again and Lord Mandy is advising him that it was an ill advised and ridiculous statement. We are seeing demonstrations at Grangemeouth and the French going on strike and at the heart of the demonstrations is the [...]
Mr and Mrs President
There are lots of images of yesterday’s inauguration but for me this seemed one of the most poignant – The First Lady holding the bible that the new President swears his oath of officer on. These pictures are from the Times reports on the events. Related articles by Zemanta Touring the new Whitehouse.gov. Barack Obama, [...]