The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
The photographs of Sir John Sawers the new head of MI6 which appeared on Facebook are not a threat to national security because it is "not a state secret" that the spy chief wears Speedos David Miliband the Foreign Secretary said.
Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Iran has said it will release the eighth of nine British embassy employees detained in Tehran, Foreign Secretary David Miliband revealed.
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
2 Big Stories MI6 head’s wife posts private details to Facebook I’ll try and be charitable here. After all, spouses and partners do not choose their loved ones jobs. But, really, if you are married to the incoming head of MI6 there are certain things you just don’t do, such as provide details about your kids and [...]
Stephen's Linlithgow Journal (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Yesterday I read in Patrick Hannan's book A Useful Fiction : "As for those Dawkins opposes [religions] , it's difficult to escape the conclusion that, far from concerning themselves with central questions of belief and the way in which they should shape the lives of their congregations, Christian churches have become almost completely preoccupied by disputes about the sexual practises of the clergy."...
Craig Murray (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Totally out of touch with public mood, the BBC is prioritising political parties - any political party - over an independent candidate, even a serious one. The BBC's Michael Crick has denied any bias by the BBC in refusing to...
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Lib Dem blogger Jonathan Fryer has the details (with apologies for LDV’s belatedness): The ALDE (Liberal) Group in the new European Parliament has chosen the Flemish Liberal and former Prime Minister of Belgium, Guy Verhofstadt, to be its new leader. He takes over from the British (South West England) Liberal Democrat MEP Graham Watson, who has [...]
UK Libertarian Party (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
The corporate state is the merging of big business and government. One serves a function, the other does not, but is occaisionally nice to have around when you really need it. But if you put them together you get something that doesn't make sense, scares the bejesus out of you, and it grows into something truly horrific...
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Welcome to the 124th of our weekly round-ups from the Lib Dem blogosphere, featuring the seven most popular stories according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (28th June – 4th July 2009), together with a hand-picked quintet, mostly courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise have missed. As ever, let’s start with the most popular post, and work [...]
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
The BBC has the story: A Tory peer referred to the police over expenses says it is part of a campaign of “attacks and innuendo” by an MP. Lord Hanningfield claimed the unnamed MP was determined to “blacken my name” over education policy in Essex, where the peer is council leader. The frontbencher claimed £99,970 over seven [...]
Archbishop Cranmer (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
It has been handbags at dawn in the pursuit of the ‘gay vote’. In the pink corner are the acolytes of Gordon Brown ( Ben Bradshaw and Chris Bryant), and in the pink corner are the aides-de-camp of David Cameron ( Iain Dale , Alan Duncan ). The fact that both corners are pink is simply to make then indistinguishable in their expression of ‘Gay Pride’ – they are united by...
The Croydonian (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
I am indebted to Behind Blue Eyes for being a thorough gent and passing on this nugget of DPRK-related goodness . Ushers is a defunct brewers based in Trowbridge, and the DPRK bought the brewery lock, stock etc and rebuilt in Pyongyang, where it is now brewing a rather lager-y looking concoction called Taedong River Beer. Further digging has unearthed this from the KCNA: "The beers including black...
The Croydonian (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
I headlined too soon. Yet another French survey , this time on trust in sundry personalities, with a remarkable array of questions. Who would you trust to babysit your children? Top of the list is a Belgian singer called Lio, who is a judge on what I am going to call ' French Idol ', at 20%, followed by actress Carole Bouquet, star of ' For Your Eyes Only ' and ' Cet obscur objet du désir' ....
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Cast your minds back a couple of weeks, and there was a bout of speculation that Labour, under pressure from the NAS/UWT teaching union, is considering a possible ban on British National Party members working as teachers in schools. We asked LDV readers the question: Do you think there should be a change to teachers’ [...]
Peter Black AM (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Just when you thought that the old ideological Conservatives had been sacrificed on the altar of Cameronism and electability, the shadow international development secretary pops his head above the parapet with another barking mad scheme . Andrew Mitchell is proposing to inject free-market thinking into development policy by giving aid vouchers will be given to millions of people in the poorest parts...
Blaney's Blarney (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
We have gone from Blair's Babes to Brown's Ball-Breakers. In today's Mail on Sunday , we learn that Tory health spokesman Andrew Lansley has walked into a dirty tricks trap set by one Sally Gainsbury - but which seems to have been the brainchild of Alastair Campbell and Gainsbury' s boyfriend, Alex Hilton (pictured left soon after he woke up). In the last month, Hilton has launched a Labour supporting...
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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...
news rage uk | 05/05/2008
I just wanted to wish Boris congratulations on his victory for Mayor of London. I hope he can turn his energy and excitement into something really positive as far as London is concerned. After years of near hatred, I have to say that I was also a little sad to see Ken Livingstone go (but not a lot). He actually seemed to take it quite well. I had visions of him attacking Gordon Brown, the labour party...
news rage uk | 21/04/2008
When I was young and on a visit to the US, I was taken to a rodeo. I watched the cowboys mount angry bulls which were then released together into the arena. A violent dance then began with the bull trying to buck the cowboy from his back and the cowboy holding on for dear life or at least for dear prize money or bravado. If the bull was successful and the cowboy came crashing to the ground, the bull...
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