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Denver Post (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Washington's closest ally in Afghanistan, toughened his tone Friday with this harsh message for the Afghan leadership: Clean up your act — for real this time — or risk a cutoff of support.
Intute: Social Sciences Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
This site provides a weekly roundup of new uk government publications. compiled by the LSe Library and Intute. Higher Ambitions – new blue print for Uk Higher education. Taking Part: The national survey of culture, leisure and sport – Headline findings from the 2008-09 Taking Part child survey Embedding Citizenship Education in Secondary Schools in England 2002-08: Citizenship education...
Catholic Commentary (Free subscription) | yesterday
The General Secretary of my trade union has a little paragraph in The Times today - utterly illogical and rather muddled it is, to say the least. I rather suspect that the leaders of other teacher unions were a bit more savvy than she was, and did not let themselves get drawn in to commenting. With one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in Europe, whatever we are doing at the moment we are not...
ABC 7 News - Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called for serious consideration of a levy on financial activity to help insure the banking system from another crisis. from ABC 7 News
Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | yesterday
TEACHERS at a city nursery attended a reception at 10 Downing Street where their success in environmental education was honoured by the Prime Minister.
European Armenian Federation (Free subscription) | yesterday
In his recently launched report, Geoffrey Robertson QC calls upon UK to give an end to the British policy of denial regarding the Armenian Genocide He denounces the way the Foreign Office deliberately misled for years the British Ministers, MPs and public opinion on this issue Internationally-recognised human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson QC released a legal opinion slamming the Foreign and Commonwealth...
Washington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
LONDON -- Facing surging public opposition to the war in Afghanistan, Prime Minister Gordon Brown delivered a stinging rebuke Friday to the government in Kabul, threatening to withhold additional British troops if it did not act swiftly to combat widespread corruption.
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | yesterday
Prime Minister Gordon Brown defended Britain's military mission in Afghanistan, insisting "we cannot, must not and will not walk away".
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | yesterday
Paintings by Titian, Van Dyck and David Hockney as well as many other cultural works – with a combined value of £19.8 million – were saved for the nation last year thanks to the Government’s Acceptance in Lieu (AIL) scheme, Culture Minister Margaret Hodge has told Parliament. Collections in Norwich, Nottingham, Northampton and Oxford, as well [...]
Green Car Congress (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Bill Gibson Chairman, Zytek Automotive; Lord Drayson , Science and Innovation Minister; and Gordon Murray, Chief Executive and Technical Director, Gordon Murray Design. Click to enlarge. The UK-backed Technology Strategy Board is investing £4.5 million (US$$7.5 million) in a new...
British National Party (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The British government has already granted so much power to the unelected bureaucrats in Brussels that it is powerless to stop a new EU regulation which will strip away the British public’s 100-year-old right to refunds for faulty or unwanted goods.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Gordon Brown has defended the role of British troops in Afghanistan following the killing of five soldiers by a police recruit.
John Smeaton, SPUC director (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The government has announced today that it will implement the recommendations of the pro-abortion SRE Review Group for sex education throughout all Key Stages (age 5-16) of the education system. Mr Ed Balls, the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, issued a ministerial statement. Paul Tully, SPUC general secretary, told the media earlier today: "We condemn this exploitation of...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
We tried to change the record, but we found it was stuck – Europe and the Tories, and MPs' expenses – the tunes at Westminster just don't change these days. But – we promise – Politics Weekly finds a fresh angle, by putting a new team round the table. On her first trip to the pod, Catherine Bennett thinks the European saga couldn't have worked out better for David Cameron....
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
World governments should consider urgently a levy on banks to fund future bailouts, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said, departing from London’s longstanding resistance to a global tax
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carrolltrust | 24/09/2009
Royal Bank of Scotland Coutts Bank named as the primary offshore financial centre of operations in the Carroll Trust international criminal syndicate case, now the subject of major criminal allegations of conspiracy to defraud racketeering money laundering in Britain's longest running largest organised criminal conspiracy corruption case. Lord Home Chairman of RBS Coutts and the newly appointed chief
traimi | 16/09/2009
With hopes to someday producing an affordable electric car, Ford will soon start trials of its Focus BEV (Battery Electric Vehicle) next year. Ford is hard at work to bring a conventional zero-emissions car to the market as soon as it can.Currently shown at the Frankfurt Motor Show , the concept car has been specially developed to participate in the UK Government’s ‘Ultra-Low Carbon Vehicles’ demonstration
bsalmons | 21/07/2009
Tom Watson nearly pulled it off at the British Open. If he won, would the masses have cared even though Tiger Woods wasn’t involved? It would have been one of the five greatest stories in the history of sports. And in terms of sheer unpredictable, mind-boggling accomplishments, it might have been No. 1. Who gave Watson a chance to even contend, much less putt for the title on the 72nd hole? Chaminade
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