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anorak.co.uk: Damian Green Round Up: The Martyr, The Clunking Fist And The End Of The Commons anorak.co.uk

Iain Dale: Police tactics in the arrest of Damian Green are more reminiscent of the legal system...

guardian.co.uk
5 hrs ago 374 related
        

According to an internet dictionary, the word grooming means: "The act of attempting to gain the trust of a minor with the intention of having a sexual relationship with him or her." It is the latter which the police would no...

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Pompous creeps

bobpiper.co.uk
28-Nov-2008
        

A final word (for now) on the Damien Green arrest. One of the most pathetic pompous arguments I've heard is that this shouldn't have happened because he is a parliamentarian. Not that it was heavy-handed, (as quite rightly...

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On the road to Damascus

bobpiper.co.uk
28-Nov-2008 3 related
        

Iain Dale claims he didn't think defending civil rights was important when the Tories were in power (what does that tell you about both of them) and that he was in favour of id cards back then too. But we are expected to...

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Hooray. [Bloggerheads]

feeds4all.nl
24-Nov-2008
        

Iain Dale has introduced compulsory comment registration on his weblog. It's on a trial basis, he's pledged to give it more of a chance than he did last time, he clearly recognises the way in which the all-comers system...

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Reykjavik on Thames

spectator.co.uk
22-Nov-2008 2 related
        

Is Britain going the same way as Iceland? Iain Dale says that my reference in my political column to senior economists referring to London as “Reykjavik on Thames” is “terrifying, if true.” Cheeky wee monkey. ‘Course it’s true....

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When will the new media be given the green light?

politicalbetting.com
21-Nov-2008 3 related
        

Why Linford’s right about bloggers in the lobby The former Westminster journalist and now leading blogger, Paul Linford, is stepping up his calls for members of the new media, bloggers, to be allowed into the lobby. He notes:...

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Why MPs don’t blog

spartakan.wordpress.com
20-Nov-2008 20 related
        

Little news item as an afterthought to the discussion at e-democracy ‘08 over the low priotiy MPs give to blogging as a way of engaging with their constituents (and a kind of response to Iain Dale saying that non-blogging MPs...

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Tories cut spending plans as poll lead slumps to 3 points

independent.co.uk
19-Nov-2008 79 related
        

David Cameron ditched the Conservative Party's pledge to match Labour's public spending totals yesterday in a significant U-turn that will allow him to offer "permanent" tax cuts at the next general election.

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anorak.co.uk: gorodn-brown-afloat Gordon Browns Word For The Day: Deflation anorak.co.uk

Gordon Brown’s Word For The Day: Deflation

anorak.co.uk
18-Nov-2008 2 related
        

HEY, tax doesn’t have to be taxing. Just ask Gordon Brown. It’s easy. You just say, “Make it so” and you can raise more taxes than a priapic Caesar. Gordon Brown is talking about deflation. Every week Gordon introduces a new...

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guardian.co.uk: Charlotte Leslie eating a traditional Sunday roast dinner. Photograph: Charlotte Leslie guardian.co.uk

Tories and Obama embrace web 2.0 while Labour lags behind

guardian.co.uk
17-Nov-2008
        

Gordon Brown's statistical virtual worlds are not the only virtual world in politics (see below). There is another – which New Labour interestingly seems less at home in. That is the virtual world of web 2.0 – brought to...

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