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AMERICAblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
| Politics
The "Tobin Tax" has been kicked around a lot lately as one possible option. France and Germany were recently promoting the idea and now, the UK has come on board. It's easy to understand that not everyone will always agree on policies such as this though it's becoming hard to see when Geithner and Obama will ever ask the financial businesses to contribute their fair share . If not this, what?...
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Not a sheep (Free subscription) | yesterday
| Business
The Times's reveals that: "LLOYDS BANKING GROUP is being kept afloat with £165 billion of loans and guarantees from the Bank of England and other central banks around the world, The Sunday Times can reveal. The bank’s reliance on state funding, detailed in a document released last week in connection with a separate £21 billion fundraising, gives the first insight into the huge...
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ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
| Politics
Jackie Ashley reveals the sensational fact in her Monday Guardian column: "Some Labour people may think I'm sounding too gloomy, but those who have been privy to recent private polling are a lot more than gloomy. This suggests that Labour could return to the Commons with just 120 MPs or thereabouts, taking the party back to 1930s territory. As ministers look for jobs to keep themselves going after...
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Labourlist (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
| Politics
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 We all know the BNP are a shameless mob, so it should come as no surprise that they've now directly copied the design of Barack Obama's campaign website. The new look has been launched this week...spot any similarities? Temerity indeed.
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Thoughts of Nigel (Free subscription) | yesterday
| General
According to this from the Sunday Times Staff at The Observer will learn their fate on Tuesday, when executives are expected to brief them on the future of the newspaper. The Scott Trust, the charity that owns The Observer’s publisher, Guardian Media Group, has decided to keep the title but in a drastically slimmed down form. Staff are expected to find out which sections of the paper will be...
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EU Referendum (Free subscription) | yesterday
| Politics
"Amid all the detailed argument about the Lisbon Treaty and referendums, it is easy to ignore a basic truth about Cameron's EU strategy and the trajectory upon which he is now set. This will be the first unequivocally Eurosceptic government of modern times." So says Matthew d'Ancona in The Sunday Telegraph . Thus, following in the footsteps of Daniel Finkelstein and Benedict Brogan , he is...
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Turbulence Ahead (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
| General
Today should have been a holiday across Europe, one celebrating freedom. What happened twenty years ago in Berlin was truly extraordinary: people power writ large - ordinary people writing history. But it isn't a holiday, perhaps because we take our freedom too much for granted in Ireland ; in Europe too, for that matter. And we take the material comfort and life choices provided by free market democracy...
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Obnoxio The Clown (Free subscription) | yesterday
| General
A lot of women have a problem with the word "cunt". To many, it is a word which demeans the worth of women in general and marks them as slatterns, along with causing breast cancer and genital warts. But I think any woman, no matter how po-faced, would struggle to describe these two as anything but a pair of cunts : A two-year-old girl was punched in the head by two teenage girls during an...
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Atlas Shrugs (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
| International
Surprised? The only dhimmis that will express SHOCK! will be the media and the authorities. Oh that's right, they won't mention it. What is it going to take? Fort Hood shooting: Texas army killer linked to September 11 terrorists Major Nidal Malik Hasan worshipped at a mosque led by a radical imam said to be a "spiritual adviser" to three of the hijackers who attacked America on Sept 11,...
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EU Referendum (Free subscription) | yesterday
| International
The EU has achieved the goal it has worked stealthily towards for so long - a supra-national government which is now beyond our recall, writes Booker in his column today. He finds it appropriate that, as the trap has snapped shut, he politician who finally let the EU get its constitution should have been Klaus, the veteran anti-Communist. It was he that predicted, just before the Czech Republic joined...
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politicalbetting.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
| Politics
Would his plan have gone through if his ratings were better? The key impact that opinion polls have is not in predicting the general election but in setting the whole back-cloth for the way current politics is conducted. So is this how we should explain the lack of support for Mr. Brown’s tax plan from [...]
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Lenin's Tomb (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
| Technology
I am saddened to hear the news that Chris Harman , revolutionary socialist and leading theoretician of the International Socialist tradition, died of a cardiac arrest in Cairo last night. Before his death, he edited the International Socialism journal, and had written an accessible critique of mainstream economic theory, Zombie Capitalism . I personally owe a considerable portion of my Bildung to the...
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Nag on the Lake (Free subscription) | yesterday
| Film
The best films released in the UK from 2000-2009 : "Art house or Blockbuster? Juno or Jason Bourne? Is The Bourne Supremacy really better than Brokeback Mountain? And if Finding Nemo made it, what the hell happened to Shrek?" I've seen lots of these. I love many of them but some of the choices (Ron Burgundy) make me shake my head.
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Calling England (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
| Politics
'Combat Barbie' is the new Miss England. Apparently there have been internal ructions in the Beauty Camp and runner-up Lance Corporal Katrina Hodge is the new Miss England after the winner was involved in a fight and subsequently fired. L/Cpl Hodge, who has won a medal for bravery in Iraq, 'wowed' the judges with her performance of a rifle drill, a first for the beauty pageant's talent section. I think...
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Althouse (Free subscription) | yesterday
| International
His idea was: Soldiers make sacrifices for the good of the country, so congressional Democrats should put their concerns about the next election aside for the good of the country. “He was absolutely inspiring. In a very moving way, he reminded us what sacrifice really is,” said New Jersey Rep. Rob Andrews, estimating the persuader-in-chief turned several votes. “Sacrifice is not casting...
