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The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
President Karzai should start his war on corruption by investigating his own family's new riches and links to the drug trade. This is unlikely. Gordon Brown is pulling on rubber levers. Nothing will change. Corruption has been the lubricant of Afghan political and business life for centuries. This is another mission impossible that will be as successful as the hope in 2006 that not a bullet would...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
President Karzai should start his war on corruption by investigating his own family's new riches and links to the drug trade. This is unlikely. Gordon Brown is pulling on rubber levers. Nothing will change. Corruption has been the lubricant of Afghan political and business life for centuries. This is another mission impossible that will be as successful as the hope in 2006 that not a bullet would...
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Paul Flynn - Read My Day (Free subscription) | yesterday
Incredibly the man who wrote this was Defence Secretary for six months. Is this the nonsense they tell each other in the Ministry of Defence? It was published in today's Independent by this blog's favourite ex-minister John Hutton. It starts...
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Paul Flynn - Read My Day (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Wall to wall media on Afghanistan has spread the message from this blog to a wider world. My television appearances have produced a vast response. Only one was hostile. Gordon Brown got it wrong again today. More of the same...
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Transform Drug Policy Foundation (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
PRESS NOTICE: from the Parliamentary Drugs and Alcohol Treatment and Harm Reduction Group Chair: Lord David Ramsbotham Secretary: Mike Wood MP Vice Chairs: David Burrowes MP, Paul Flynn MP, Paul Holmes MP FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: MPs table motion calling for drugs policy based on scientific evidence MPs from the Cross-Party Group on Drugs and Alcohol Treatment and Harm Reduction (DATHR) have today tabled...
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Paul Flynn - Read My Day (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
These inspiring words were read in the Commons yesterday. They made a great impression. "I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those...
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Paul Flynn - Read My Day (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
In was act of great generosity the Speaker who called me again today at Prime Minister's Questions. That's twice in a fortnight when twice a year is a good average. The reason was today's murder of five brave British soldiers...
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Paul Flynn - Read My Day (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
I will sleep soundly tonight. The excitement on whether Kelly will back my evidence tomorrow will not keep me awake. If the forecasts are right, Kelly will respond to the twisted public perception that Labour MPs are more to blame...
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Paul Flynn - Read My Day (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
The Commons today was in two moods. They hunted advisors caught thnking smarter thoughts than politicians. Then they were in full denial, demanding a story about Afghanistan with a happy ending. It was a lynch mob of unreason baying for...
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ffranc sais (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Richard Baum has a very thoughtful piece on the dismissal of the head of the drugs advisory council. Having read this, and seen the short Q&A session on BBC-Parliament this afternoon, I am now not so certain that Alan Johnson was wrong to respond to the recent attacks by Professor Nutt on the subject of declassifying cannabis. The Home Secretary was responding in the Commons this afternoon to an...
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Paul Flynn - Read My Day (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Total of British soldiers killed in Afghanistan = 224 "The reality is that legal fees are so high that most defendants want to settle as quickly as possible, rather than fight a case on its merits." Amen to that. I...
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Paul Flynn - Read My Day (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
'Luddite' was the word used by Prof Nutt about the decision to sack him. This is hardly fair. After all the Luddites were ignorant and they had not been elected to run the country. Unlike our Government and Opposition spokespeople...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Your revelations about Iraq's modern-day atomic aspirations ( Iraq seeks permission for new nuclear programme , 28 October) raise the question whether the UK nuclear industry – with encouragement of the government, now all reborn atomic aficionados – will seek to gain a foothold in the re-emerging Iraqi nuclear industry. The UK has form on this: on 31 March 1957 the Baghdad Pact Nuclear...
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Paul Flynn - Read My Day (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Groan. When I thought it could not get worse, Prof Nutt is sacked, caught in possession of an intelligent idea. Science and evidence is secondary to prejudice and ignorance. Truth is subordinate to the need for political gratification. On every...
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Paul Flynn - Read My Day (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
President Obama is deeply troubled He has changed the 18 year old policy of George Bush and allowed the media to film the arrival home of America's dead from Afghanistan. Even more significantly, he today greeted and saluted the fallen....
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