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Labourhome (Free subscription) | 37 minutes ago
Gordon Brown sparks anger by revealing SAS role in Afghanistan The general public “know” that the SAS and the like are in Afghanistan but they do not need to know the details. So why has Gordon Brown abandoned the long held policy of not releasing any details of British Special Forces operations? [...]
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The Daily Record (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
HUNDREDS of UK special forces have been sent to Afghanistan to take on the Taliban.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Gordon Brown confirms to the House of Commons that 500 more troops are to be sent to Afghanistan
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QueerSighted (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Filed under: News , Video News - British PM Gordon Brown pays tribute to HIV/AIDS activists in his World Aids Day message and shows commitment from the British government to help support research and support people affected by the illness. ... Read more Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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Rani's Report (Free subscription) | yesterday
A Downing Street spokesman said: "The Prime Minister and President Obama had a 45 minute video-conference this evening, focused on Afghanistan and climate change. On Afghanistan, the two leaders took stock on overall strategy, and this week's US/UK announcements. They agreed on the importance of combining military and political strategies in Afghanistan, as well as on the need for continued action...
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icWales (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
MORE than 500 Welsh troops will be sent to Afghanistan to bolster the British mission there, Gordon Brown confirmed yesterday.
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Beau Bo D'Or (Free subscription) | yesterday
and to prove he is a leader, not a follower, he gets the news out before Obama.
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
Gordon Brown surprised MPs and caused consternation among senior military figures yesterday by revealing there were 500 special forces troops in Afghanistan.
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Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
Gordon Brown provoked surprise this afternoon by announcing that Britain's military presence in Afghanistan would soon be over 10,000, as he took the unusual step of revealing that there were around 500 special forces there.
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ConservativeHome's YourPlatform (Free subscription) | yesterday
Lionel Zetter is an author and freelance public affairs consultant who is also a director of ComRes and of the Enterprise Forum. His most recent book is Blueprint: The Politics, Principles and Personalities of the New Conservative Government, which was...
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Culture (Free subscription) | yesterday
The kerfuffle over whether or not Nelson Mandela wrote the foreword to a book by President Denis Sassou-Nguesso of Congo-Brazzaville reminds me of some similar trouble our own Prime Minister ran into with one of his many books on Courage. The Mandela Foundation initially rather forecefully denied that Nelson Mandela had contributed to Sassou-Nguesso’s work. Sassou-Nguesso [...]
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Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | yesterday
`Daily Telegraph' `Andrew Porter' Mr Brown has made it clear he also wants to change the rule of primogeniture, which prevents women taking their place ahead of men in the line to the throne. The Prime Minister will travel to a Commonwealth summit in Trinidad today and will raise the controversial issue fellow heads of government. Last night [...]
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The Appalling Strangeness (Free subscription) | yesterday
Gordon Brown : "We've got to ask ourselves why, eight years after September the 11th, nobody has been able to spot or detain or get close to Osama bin Laden, nobody's been able to get close to Zawahiri, the number two in al-Qaeda." Yes, we should ask the question. And then note the very obvious answer. Which is that both Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri aren't going to be advertising...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
Brown confirms troop numbers are to increase by 500 as it emerges that a soldier from 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards has been killed, bringing to 99 the number of British service personnel killed in Afghanistan this year.
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Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling have yet to discuss Britain’s economic growth forecasts which the Chancellor is scheduled to announce next week.
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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
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rex6666 | 30/06/2009
A few months ago, the BBCs Top Gear and Sun columnist Jeremy Clarkson , unveiled his manifesto for running Britain as PM. And since then we've had a string of celebrities contemplate running as independent MPs in wake of the scandalous MPs expenses saga, first broken by the Telegraph newspaper . Yesterday Gordon Brown was trying to reclaim the political agenda by announcing a raft of measures on social...
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autismnews | 30/06/2009
British Parliamentarians of all parties in the House of Commons in Westminster have backed an early day motion on Autism and the Carer's Allowance. EDM 1551 was tabled by Lee Scott MP who has been campaigning tirelessly in the House of Commons on autism and Asperger's Syndrome. Autism campaigners in the United Kingdom have been urging the Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the Government to increase the...
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