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Why you need to cut now to cut in 2011(1)
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The Prince of Darkness, Peter Mandelson, has been on the news again telling us all how unpatriotic the Conservatives are for comparing our busted economy with that of Greece – an economy so bust that it has been put on suicide watch by the European Central Bank. Mandelson , of [...]
Full Story»Dangerous Iraqi bomb detector in Somerset
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There was a very disturbing Newsnight story yesterday which reported that a company in Somerset – Sparkford it appears – has been selling a device to the Iraqi military that supposedly can spot bombs and thus save lives. In fact the opposite appears to be true and that the bomb detector does [...]
Lib Dems betray voters on Europe – again
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One of the oddities of the last general Election is that the two major parties, and the Lib Dems, had as a manifesto commitment to hold a referendum on Lisbon Treaty.Once that treaty became law it was of course right that those manifesto commitments were dropped. However, the Lib Dems and Labour decided [...]
The cartoon row returns
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I was amazed to hear this morning of the attack in the home of the Danish cartoonist who wrote the apparently terrible cartoons that insulted Islam.
The issue made me look back at what it was that I felt at the time the cartoons row first blew up. I was surprised to [...]