ProudToBeCanadian Blog (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
CBC won’t show a clip from this show, I don’t think. Palin—and in fact no Republicans were bashed. Ipso facto , it doesn’t pass CBC “news” muster , you know, the way Palin-bashing Saturday Night Live clips taken from NBC do. .
Tim Worstall (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
The new Banking Bill: The Government is to publish its Banking Bill, which will create new powers to intervene to rescue failing institutions. Both the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have dropped minor objections to the bill in an effort to see it enacted quickly. I’m always extremely wary of bipartisan support for something. It means that it [...]
The UK Daily Pundit (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
"It's the most interesting thing he has ever done." Labour's Paul Flynn on hearing the news that Tory Welsh Assembly leader, Nick Bourne , had fallen in the shower and cracked his head open.
The UK Daily Pundit (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Pulling himself together after his McPoison moment last week the Mail's political editor is back to doing what he does best: spilling the cannellini beans. It now transpires that Moussakagate odd couple, Mandelson and Osborne, were attending a bash at Corfu's Taverna Agni hosted by none other than Rupert Murdoch when Mandy's poison dripping took place. However, the real story is yet to unfold. Mandelson's...
Forceful and Moderate (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Mark Valladares' posts about Irfan on the Lib Dem aggregator scared me somewhat. Is he seriously suggesting someone be barred from the aggregator based JUST on this post? Or thrown out out of the Liberal Democrats? I don't know Irfan. From reading his posts, I suspect he is a teenager (correct me if I'm wrong). Certainly, he isn't that practiced at getting his thoughts down on paper? Was he
The UK Daily Pundit (Free subscription) | yesterday
He soon could be due to his directorship at construction giant, Vinci Plc . Even if Davies has no direct involvement with MOD construction projects in his new role as Minister for Defence Equipment & Support, it could still look a bit embarrassing/iffy when one of Vinci's numerous construction or property management companies wins an MOD contract. The £41 million contract recently awarded to...
The UK Daily Pundit (Free subscription) | yesterday
Lights, camera, action! DD is on the comeback trail and he's celebrating news of the demise of 42-days without detention. Or is it the other way around? Anyway, the Evening Standard's Paul Waugh managed to grab the great man's attention for just long enough for Davis to say how vindicated he is, tickled even, at today's unofficial clear signal that he was right all along. "I certainly feel vindicated....
The UK Daily Pundit (Free subscription) | yesterday
On the day The Mirror reported that MOD bosses lavished £230 million in just one year on hotels and dinners compared to a paltry £16 million on refurbishing soldiers accommodation, the Spectator's Daniel Korski has set out his wish list for John Hutton's first 100 days as Defence Secretary. Issues surrounding the conditions of soldiers and veterans comes a surprising 4th place, with Iraq...
Alan Beddow. (Free subscription) | yesterday
This afternoon I visited Warwick School to speak at the sixth form afternoon assembly. I briefly spoke about what Liberal Democrats stand for and where we sit in the political landscape. I kept this short as I wanted to spend more time answering questions and talking about what the boys wanted to talk about. The questions asked were excellent and at times tough, covering a range of subjects from the...
Cllr Fraser Macpherson (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tavish Scott, Leader of the Liberal Democrats in Scotland, is coming to Dundee later this month to speak with students at the University of Abertay. The meeting takes place on Thursday 16th October at 7.30pm at Room 1517 in the University. It is open to the public and attendees should enter the university buildings via the main door on Bell Street, up the stairs and then head along the corridor parallel...
The UK Daily Pundit (Free subscription) | yesterday
It's hard to imagine Peter Mandelson admitting anything, so make the most of the news that he's been admitted to hospital with a suspected kidney stone. Get well soon, Peter. Your country needs you. Meanwhile, Guardian columnist Jackie Ashley has coined the phrase, Emergency Labour, noting that the next election is a foregone conclusion: Labour will be booted out. Perhaps, says Paul Linford , but...
The UK Daily Pundit (Free subscription) | yesterday
The taramasalata thickens. Not only did Peter Mandelson and George Osborne have a ' chance meeting ' in a Greek Taverna during the summer, they had a further chance meeting on board the luxury yacht of one of Russia's richest men, Oleg Deripaska. During the first chance meeting Osborne has alleged that Mandy "dripped pure poison" about Gordon Brown, while friends of Peter Mandelson have alleged that...
The UK Daily Pundit (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Sadly, the newly promoted economic secretary to the Treasury, Ian Pearson, has removed the ' favourites ' page from his website, otherwise you would still be able to click through to www.pokerroom.com, one of the websites listed as Ian's favourites when I last blogged about him following his attack on Ryanair back in 2007. Maybe he's knocked it on the head these days, who knows? By the way, anyone...
The UK Daily Pundit (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
I can't help wondering what the new immigration minister, Phil Woolas, will make of the suggestion that Muslim women should wear a full veil that only reveals one eye. According to Saudi cleric, Sheikh Muhammad al-Habadan , showing both eyes encourages women to use eye make-up to look seductive. Woolas has already said that Muslim women wearing the Niqab, the popular and more commonly seen two-eyed...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
A moderate Labour politician who came to feel alienated from the extreme Left of his party and eventually joined the Liberal Democrats in the late 1980s, Lord Thomson of Monifieth was, as George Thomson in the House of Commons, the last holder of the office of Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs, 1967-68, in the second administration of Harold Wilson. By then a strong pro-European, he left...
