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"Intercapillary Space" (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Ian Davidson On 'Dear Dark Continent' and 'September's Book' In the title of her poem from 1972, ‘Dear Dark Continent’ (Notley 8), Alice Notley links the familiar to the unknown. The address, ‘Dear’, simultaneously indicates intimacy in the way it links speaker and addressed, and distance through the letter form. The ‘Dark Continent’ is both a land mass with a mysterious unknown interior reminiscent...
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Stories on Malawi (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
RANGERS skipper Barry Ferguson teamed up with local MP Ian Davidson today to send a goodwill message from Ibrox to football-crazy schoolchildren in Malawi. Mr Davidson, the MP for Glasgow South West, is leading a Commonwealth Parliamentary Association delegation to the African state next week. During his trip he will visit the Milonde Community Day Secondary School which is twinned' with Govan High...
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The Wardman Wire (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
That question has been asked again… Labour MP Ian Davidson has said this morning on the Today programme that the “anomaly” of Scottish MPs voting on English-only laws in Westminster is “a price worth paying for the Union.” But why is it always the English who seem to be paying for it? Once again it is the [...]
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IOL (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
DA MP Ian Davidson says ANC president Jacob Zuma has switched to "absolute silence" on the subject of political developments in Zimbabwe.
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Royal Dutch Shell plc .com (Free subscription) | 26/05/2008
As part of his role as trade ambassador, Prince Andrew has been involved in brokering energy deals for British companies in Kazakhstan. Labour MP Ian Davidson said the property sale raised questions over whether there were any strings attached.
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Lightwater (Free subscription) | 15/05/2008
Appearing on the breakfast table is a new jar of honey, and surprise, surprise, yet again it's local Lightwater honey. Not Ian Davidson's Surrey Honey this time, but Hill's Honey from Broadway Road, Lightwater. My wife says she knows the maker and confirms that the hives are in Lightwater and Windlesham. With pressure on us all, as consumers, to think [...]
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Mail & Guardian (Free subscription) | 20/04/2008
The Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Sunday it would again write to National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete to request that she reconsider her decision to turn down a request for a special sitting of Parliament to debate the crisis in Zimbabwe. DA chief whip Ian Davidson said his party believed that President Thabo Mbeki's policy on Zimbabwe had been a failure.
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Head of Legal (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
All the interminable committee debates on the EU (Amendment) Bill come to a head tonight, with a debate and vote on the Tories' amendment, which would require a referendum - though they may withdraw this and back Labour backbencher Ian Davidson's compromise offering both a Lisbon and an "in-or-out of the EU" referendum. It's this last scenario that's most dangerous for the government, I'd say:
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ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
Labour MPs Gisela Stuart, Graham Stringer, Kate Hoey and Ian Davidson spoke to press on College Green this lunchtime about why the case for a referendum was "very simple, very common sense". Waving copies of Labour's 2005 manifesto they said...
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Revolts.co.uk (Free subscription) | 29/02/2008
Wednesday's saw Day 8 of Lisbon and a total of only two dissenters on the Labour side: Frank Field and Ian Davidson. Meanwhile, Ken Clarke's stout support of the Treaty continued as he backed the Government's position in all four...
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The UK Daily Pundit (Free subscription) | 17/01/2008
Labour's Rob Marris (Fortress Europe) versus Labour's Ian Davidson (Big worlder) during a debate on "the great EU takeaway - the stupid UK giveaway": Rob Marris: "My hon. Friend (Davidson) says that a better deal was possible. I agree with the intellectual construct, just as I believe that it is possible for my hon. Friend to become leader of the Labour party. However, I think it unlikely
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Revolts.co.uk (Free subscription) | 17/01/2008
Yet more evidence this week that Labour is no longer as disunited over the issue of European integration as it was back in the 1990s. Only two Labour backbenchers Ian Davidson and Roger Godsiff opposed the Third Reading...
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Revolts.co.uk (Free subscription) | 20/11/2007
In the first Labour rebellion of the new session, yesterday four Labour MPs - Colin Burgon, Ian Davidson, Roger Godsiff and Kelvin Hopkins - voted against the Second Reading of the European Communities (Finance) Bill. Both Davidson and Hopkins spoke...
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The England Project (Free subscription) | 19/11/2007
Here’s a quick one as I’m just about to pop out of the door. Who said this? “I think the proposals that we had before for regional assemblies seemed to me to be a way forward.” Ian Davidson, the Labour MP for Glasgow South West. Way to try and solve the WLQ!!! By telling the English what their [...]
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IOL (Free subscription) | 06/11/2007
President Thabo Mbeki's poor quality of answers confirmed the party's view that he was reluctant to answer opposition parties' questions, says the DA's Chief Whip Ian Davidson.
