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“in power too long”

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“I cannot think of a better symbol of an out of touch, authoritarian, failing government that has been in power for too long,” Green said Damian Green in The Guardian today The Tory leader said Labour had “been in power too long” and Gordon Brown had to end “this sort of nonsense”. David Cameron seeking [...]

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Snow, The London Assembly Report

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We’re now only a month since the TERRIFYING SNOW OF LONDON and after the inevitable Channel 4 documentary Snowstorm: Britain’s Big Freeze comes the London Assembly’s report on how (badly) London coped with the snow. There are many interesting points raised within it, one intriguing thing is that the tube was doing fine, seemingly, but [...]

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This man can clearly challenge Salmond…

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Iain Gray, has now become the leader of the Labour Party in the Scottish Parliament. Marvel at this performance he put in to defend Wendy Alexander, their last leader on the vexed issue of Labour’s position on an Independence referendum, alas he declined the opportunity to speak in Portugese.

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What Difference Does It Make?

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Seeing as I posted the first comment on Tom Harris’s blog post that made the front page of the Daily Mail and have had a streaming torrent of (ooh) eight visitors here’s some comment on his points on my own blog. I agree with Tom that it is sad that optimism is rare. In my [...]

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For King and Four Countries

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Just been reading Anthony King’s report on the BBC network news coverage of the four UK nations for the BBC Trust. It’s a very well written, engaging and sometimes rather amusing document. In the main it doesn’t stick the knife in and there is much about the BBC to be praised, but here are some [...]

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