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Liberal England (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Iain Dale: So you don't do what Ming Campbell used to do every morning when he was shaving and think: "God, I wish I'd stood against Charles Kennedy?" Vince Cable: No, absolutely not, I genuinely don't. I quite enjoyed the 'acting leader' period, and did quite well, but I've got a very full role. Read the whole thing in Total Politics .
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TalkCarswell.com (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
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Sir Hugh Orde, top quangocrat at APCO, hints that he'd quit if the Conservatives go ahead with plans to democratise control over local policing. Off you go, Sir Hugh. As Sir Hugh must surely know, the Conservative plan would not mean politicising operational policing matters. They would not see police officers taking orders from politicians on day-to-day policing. Indeed, our plans would enshrine...
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Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
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I may be in Tunbridge Wells today but I am sure I can hear the sound of champagne corks popping in Cowley Street, Westminster. The Electoral Commission has just announced that the £2.4 million donation by convicted fraudster Michael Brown's Fifth Avenue Partners was permissible and that no action will be taken against the LibDems. This despite the fact that the company was clearly not trading...
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Duncan Borrowman (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
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Racism is alive and kicking in Orpington Conservatives, as revealed in a couple of emails sent on the Bromley Council email system to their local councillors and constituency chairman in the early hours of this morning, and leaked to me today. The emails, from Orpington councillor Peter Hobbins, who had eyes on being the Tory Mayoral London Mayoral candidate and who used to be bag carrier to
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The Ugley Vicar (Free subscription) | yesterday
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For a man hardly renowned for his robustness, the recent speech given in Rome by the Archbishop of Canterbury was remarkably robust. Of course, it was given partly in response to the announcement from Rome on October 20 th of effectively a ‘safe haven’ for Anglicans disenchanted by the policies of the Church over which Rowan Williams presides. Few will forget his somewhat glum and deflated...
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The Devil's Kitchen (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
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Now that the general hilarity engendered by the email has simmered down a little, people are starting to look at the (vast numbers of) documents—many of which are very revealing. Your humble Devil has constantly pointed out that climate scientists may not be in a conspiracy to deceive mankind—but they do need money for research. A lot of money. And creating a massive scare and then doing...
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Pope Benedict XVI Blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
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Catholic World News November 19, 2009 Two days before he is scheduled to meet with Pope Benedict XVI, the Archbishop of Canterbury made a spirited defense of the Anglican decision to ordain women as priests, and minimized the differences between the Anglican communion and the Catholic Church, in a talk at the Gregorian University in Rome. Dr. Rowan Williams said that the Anglican communion, with its...
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Pickled Politics (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
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This isn’t surprising at all is it? An elderly Sikh who describes Islam as a “beast” and once provided a character reference for Nick Griffin during his racial hatred trial is set to become the British National Party’s first non-white member. Rajinder Singh, an anti-Islam activist in his late seventies who blames Muslims for the death of [...]
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ConservativeHome (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
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ToryDiary: How the Right and British Eurosceptics have responded to last night's new EU appointments Brian Monteith on Platform: David Cameron is pushing at an open door with his call to tackle "Big Government" - but we need to hear...
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Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
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The British government has brought down its long-awaited Digital Economy Bill, and it's perfectly useless and terrible. It consists almost entirely of penalties for people who do things that upset the entertainment industry (including the "three-strikes" rule that allows your entire family to be cut off from the net if anyone who lives in your house is accused of copyright infringement, without...
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Tim Worstall (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
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You know, enabling Europe to punch above its weight, be taken seriously in the councils of power across the world? The surprise combination emerged after Gordon Brown ended Tony Blair’s hopes of becoming president, abandoning his support for his successor and proposing Baroness Ashton for the foreign job instead. The Prime [...]
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Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
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When will it end? The Telegraph has the story tonight of Conservative MP David Curry, the new chairman of the Parliamentary Standards Committee (no, really), has been accused of claiming £30,000 of taxpayers' money to pay for a house he hasn't set foot in for four years, after being banned by his ex wife. The Telegraph says... The Conservative MP is accused of having an affair with a headmistress...
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Nosemonkey's EUtopia (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
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So, it’s looking like it’s lightweight, little-known Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy for the President of the European Council, and lightweight, little-known Baroness Ashton (current UK European Commissioner, Peter Mandelson’s almost invisible replacement) for the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. Two no-marks, for two jobs that many...
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Open Knowledge Foundation Weblog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
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In a press release earlier this week, it was announced that there will be moves to open up geospatial data produced by the Ordnance Survey: The Prime Minister and Communities Secretary John Denham will today announce that the public will have more access to Ordnance Survey maps from next year, as part of a [...] Related posts: Public Geospatial Data and the OSGeo Foundation Mashing up is hard to do...
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Schneider Home (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
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Now that Blair is out of the picture Brown is pushing Baroness Ashton to be EU Foreign Minister . I really hope that this is merely a bargaining position so that the UK gets to keep a key economic brief in the Commission (i.e. Trade). Even if it is, its bloody embarrassing. What makes Ashton a good candidate? Lets take a brief look at her CV. 1998 - 2001 - Chaired the Hertfordshire Health Authority...
