Mr Eugenides (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has defended jailed killer "Carlos the Jackal" and several world leaders he says are wrongly considered "bad guys". In a speech to international socialist politicians, Mr Chavez said "Carlos", a Venezuelan, was not a terrorist but a key "revolutionary fighter". He is serving a life sentence in France for murders committed in 1975....
Al Jahom's Final Word (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Various bloggers have written about this leak of data and emails from the Hadley Climate Research Unit. http://obotheclown.blogspot.com/2009/11/leaked-ipcc-emails.html http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/19/breaking-news-story-hadley-cru-has-apparently-been-hacked-hundreds-of-files-released/ I hope this is all genuine and the gig is now blown on AGW, as James Dellingpole seems to think. If you own any...
Harry's Place (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
At her blog Generation Y, the brave Cuban dissident Yoani Sanchez has posted President Obama’s responses to seven questions she submitted to him. Obama prefaced his answers as follows: Thank you for this opportunity to exchange views with you and your readers in Cuba and around the world and congratulations on receiving the Maria Moore Cabot Prize [...]
SUBROSA (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
John Swinney, the Scottish Finance Secretary, has been voted Scottish Politician of the Year at the 11th annual Herald Scottish Politician of the Year awards. Seeing off his challengers, Nicola Sturgeon (Health Secretary) and Kenny MacAskill (Justice Secretary), Mr Swinney was praised by judges for his handling of the economic crisis. Not only did he take top prize but he also received the Donald...
Pickled Politics (Free subscription) | 19 minutes ago
bmsd’s letter to “Stop the Islamisation of Europe”. --------------- Dear Mr [Stephen] Gash, We are a group of Muslim democrats who are committed to the values that define the British state, including legal and constitutional equality for all, equal rights for women and minorities, and religious freedom, including the right to be free of faith. We take such pride in these virtues...
The Devil's Kitchen (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
UPDATING: a list of The Kitchen posts concerning the CRU Emails . And, just as a reminder, feel free to browse the searchable database .
And another thing... (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
TOMORROW’S Observer will carry an Ipsos/Mor poll showing the Tories with an extremely modest (and not majority-winning) six per cent lead. The numbers are: Conservatives 37 (-6) Labour 31 (+5) Others 32 I can go to bed (reasonably) happy now.
Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
The Sunday Times has a delicious story about Peter Mandelson trying to force Gordon Brown into making him Foreign Secretary. The thing with stories like this is that they can never be proved - until they happen. But this one has the ring of truth about it. What Jonathan Oliver and Isabel Oakeshott don't speculate on is the reaction of David Miliband to such a suggestion. Might it provide him with a...
ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Last month's Ipsos-Mori poll saw a 7% jump in the Conservative rating and a 6% drop for the Lib Dems after their September poll showed a 13% Tory lead over the Lib Dems. Mike Smithson at Political Betting reminds us that Ipsos-Mori's more erratic figures are down to the fact that they only include those who are 100% certain to vote. And this month's poll - to be published in tomorrow's Observer - sees...
Labourlist (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
By Brian Barder / @BrianLB The EU’s appointments of the Belgian prime minister Herman van Rompuy (what comical names these foreigners do have!) as permanent Chairman (”President”) of the European Council, and (subject to the approval of the European Parliament) of the EU’s (British) Commissioner for Trade, Baroness (Cathy) Ashton, as High Representative for Foreign Affairs...
Harry's Place (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
It’s easy (and fun) to ridicule student “activists” of the self-indulgent, wooly-headed “look how right-on and radical we are” variety. But credit is due United Students Against Sweatshops for their campaign that has forced the leading sportswear company Russell Athletic to rehire 1,200 workers in Honduras who lost their jobs when the company closed their factory [...]...
politicalbetting.com (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
CON ?? % LAB ??% LD ??% OTHERS ??% [LAB/CON ??% ()] The much delayed survey has ????? There are reports about that a poll due out tonight is “very good for Labour“. We haven’t seen any numbers yet and this post will be updated when we get some. Which pollster it is I don’t know but the [...]
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
The Lib Dems’ deputy leader Vince Cable is the cover star of the December issue of Total Politics, trailing a feature interview with the Tory blogger we all love to name-check, Iain Dale. Here’s a taster: Do you see the Liberal Democrats as a centre-left party? No, I don’t use that description. I know some of my [...]
Labourlist (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
By Ralph Baldwin Many people in history have been recorded for doing extraordinary things in difficult and very challenging circumstances. As Labour heads forward toward the general election in Barking and Dagenham, we know we face a test. I walk down the Dagenham Heathway I see a little boy in a pram waving at an object in the distance as his mother pushes him along. His eyes are bright and his little...
Next Left (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Ethnic minority representation in the House of Commons did not begin with the important post-war breakthrough of the class of 1987. In a piece for the history section of the latest issue of Total Politics , I look at how the long history of black and Asian MPs in the House of Commons has reflected a range of shifting - and politically contested - ideas about race and representation in British politics....
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carrolltrust | 13/11/2009
Slaughter and May partners Glen James Simon Hall and Lucy Wylde are explicity "named" as the Gerald Carroll Carroll Foundation Trust lawyers in compelling criminal evidence dossiers containing forged HM Land Registry Gerald Carroll legal conveyance documentation HM Government DTI Companies House forged and falsified Carroll Trust Corporations share certificates and HM Ministry of Defence Carroll Trust
carrolltrust | 11/11/2009
Slaughter and May is a "Magic Circle" law firm based in the City of London England. Slaughter and May advises the most FTSE 100 companies (28) of any law firm in the Magic Circle. Partners Glen James (pictured) Simon Hall and Lucy Wylde are explicity "named" as the Gerald Carroll Carroll Foundation Trust lawyers in compelling criminal evidence dossiers containing forged HM Land Registry Gerald Carroll
carrolltrust | 05/11/2009
Goodman Derrick LLP is an ESTABLISHED LONDON LAW FIRM with a broadly based commercial practice, representing both UK and international clients are the subject of serious criminal allegations of racketeering organized crime in Britain's longest running largest organised criminal conspiracy and corruption case. The Carroll Foundation Trust $1,000,000,000 (one billion dollars) "cross border" international
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