The Daley Dozen: Monday

1. Dan Hodges reveals the chaotic state the Yes to AV are in.
2. James Kirkup can't believe what Labour MPs are up to.
3. The ASI show Ireland how they can leave the Euro.
4. Charles Crawford looks at what we should do in Libya.
5. James Plunkett thinks the "growth" agenda is complicated.
6. Anna Racoon analyses the attacks on our OAPs.
7. Jonathan Isaby reckons the ECJ is about to alienate half of voters.
8. David Cowan wants to reform National Insurance.
9. Walaa Idris praises Ed Miliband.
10. Douglas Carswell hopes that an in/out referendum is on the cards.
11. Not a Sheep thinks the UN is joke.
12. The Welsh Conservatives launch their new website.

On My LBC Show Tonight From 7pm

7PM Ed Miliband said today that he fears that people are now working harder for less and that people on modest incomes are going to be hardest hit by the coalition’s cuts? Is he right? Is a cost of living crisis about to hit the middle classes?

8PM We’ll be broadcasting live the third of our LBC/RSA debates live from the Great Room of the RSA in front of 200 invited guests. James O’Brien will chair the debate and I’ll host your reaction to what our experts say on the subject of the debate – A future fair for all.

9PM LBC Book Club: I’ll be talking to Katharine Birbalsingh, author of To Miss with Love and to Angela Saini who’s written a book called Geek Nation: How Indian Science is Taking Over the World.

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The Daley (Half) Dozen: Friday

1. Johann Hari addresses the issue of Muslim homophobia.
2. Peter Hitchens on BBC bias.
3. Andrew RT Davies puts forward the idea of Team GB for 2012.
4. Ed West looks at why the working class don't vote Green.
5. Walaa Idris lays out her arguments against female quotas.
6. Michael Gove gives the case for democracy in the Middle East.

On My LBC Show From 7pm Tonight...

7PM How important to you is the bobby on the beat? This programme has exclusively learned that Boris Johnson will launch a new scheme tomorrow which gives local communities two bobbies for the price of one. For every new police officer paid for by a local council, the Mayor will pay for another one.

8PM It’s Polling Day in the Irish general election. Three million voters in the republic will choose a new government to replace the one led by Fianna Fail’s Brian Cowen. We’ll be speaking to experts and asking what a new government will mean for Ireland, for Britain and for Europe. Are you a member of the Irish community living in London. Have you voted? Ring me and tell me who you voted for and why.

9PM How important are books to children? The government has halved the funding for the Book Trust scheme? If we really want our children to read, is this a false economy? What books inspired you as a child?
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The Daley Dozen: Thursday

1. Ed Howker exposes Yes to AV funding.
2. Tom Clougherty gives us an Austrian School insight into inflation.
3. Tim Montgomerie takes a detailed look at the new No10 operation.
4. Andrew Haldenby wants more reform of the Civil Service.
5. John Redwood explains why UKIP should not support AV.
6. Anna Racoon digs a little further into the "technical problems" of BA flights.
7. Direct Democracy want Eric Pickles to go further.
8. Andy Mayer thinks we underestimate the grey terror at our peril.
9. Ben Brogan lays out the reasons why Cameron should care about AV.
10. David Osler reports that the socialists are still supporting Gadaffi.
11. Paul Richards has realised The Life of Brian was a satire of the Left.
12. Tim Dodds laments the loss of Iain Martin, and looks to the future.

On My LBC Show Tonight From 7pm...

7PM Sorry. Are you glad that politicians have at last learnt the art of saying sorry? And it’s just as well because our government’s performance in the last 24 hours over the Libyan evacuation has been shocking. Does Cameron’s apology go far enough? Whose head would you like to see roll? And also on Libya, what on earth is the point of the UN or NATO if they can’t intervene and protect innocent lives? Isn’t it time these international organisations grew a backbone, otherwise we have to ask if they serve any role?

8PM Immigration. Figures out today show a huge rise in net immigration. In the globalised world we live in, is it time we bowed to the inevitable and recognised that actually, there’s very little we can do about it and that we just need to learn how to cope?

9PM LBC Legal Hour with Daniel Barnett

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The Daley Dozen: Wednesday

1. Robin Simcox thinks the Middle East uprisings are vindicating the neocons.
2. Mike Smithson reckons the Yes to AV campaign should worry.
3. Guy the Mac is sceptical about the poverty figures.
4. George Eaton exposes Labour's dependency on the Unions.
5. Ed Staite wants more Britishness on our Bank holidays.
6. Seph Brown on the British Left and Gadaffi.
7. Charles Crawford looks at Arab compatibility with democracy.
8. Leslie Clark analyses the Orange Book.
9. Matthew Norman reckons Cameron has a lucky gift.
10. Chris Williamson is worried about youth unemployment.
11. Philip Booth explains why pensioners need to share the pain.
12. Peter Bingle has some advice for future Public Affairs consultants.

On My LBC Show From 7pm...

7PM Figures out today show that public sector workers are a third more likely to take a day off sick than their private sector counterparts. Why is this? Is it because the monitoring systems in the public sector are lax? Are public sector workers innately lazier or is it more complex than that? Do public sector workers suffer more stress? Are they more fearful of job cuts than their private sector equivalents?

8PM The government announced today that divorcing couple will be referred to mediation services to sort out their disputes before they are allowed to use the courts. Is this something that looks like common sense or is it just a ruse to cut the number of cases going through our full to the brim courts? Do you fear the real consequence will mean that divorcing couples will no longer be entitled to legal aid?

9PM LBC Parliament with Steve Norris (former Conservative MP for Epping and London mayoral candidate), Simon Hughes, (Deputy Leader of the LibDems and MP for Southwark & Bermondsey) and Peter Watt (former General Secretary of the Labour Party)


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The Daley Dozen: Tuesday

1. Mark Wallace wants an apology from the Guardian.
2. Fraser Nelson reports that Damian McBride has found a new job.
3. Rory Meakin is optimistic about competition in the public sector.
4. Mohamed Abdul Malek wants the government to put pressure on Gadaffi.
5. Political Scrapbook are impressed with Total Politics' new website.
6. Stumbling and Mumbling reckons universities are bouncers.
7. Anthony Wells shows the public don't like cuts, but they don't like Labour either.
8. James Forsyth thought that Cameron's speech was a good one.
9. Gaby Hinsliff thinks Cameron should back or sack Ken Clarke.
10. Nick Wood explains why the left are in a moral dilemma.
11. Christina Odone finds Jacqui Smith revolting.
12. Thomas Haynes thinks Osborne should take Nigel Lawson's advice.

On My LBC Show From 7pm...

7PM Libya: What next after Gadaffi's speech?

8PM David Cameron says we were wrong to support dictators in the past. Is he right? Is he really intimating we're going to move towards a so-called ethical foreign policy? But shouldn't Britain's foreign policy be based on hard headed realism. Guests: Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Douglas Murray.

9PM LBC Medical Hour with Dr Rob Hicks.


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The Daley Dozen: Monday

1. Peter Watt think Labour need to detoxify the brand.
2. Peter Hitchens doesn't think highly of our justice system.

3. Charles Crawford talks about Arab Uprisings and Royal Weddings.
4. John Hayward looks at the Big Society in Context.
5. Max Atkinson analyses Dr Gadaffi's speechmaking skills.
6. Raheem Kassam wants Conference to look more like CPAC.
7. Ed Jacobs reveals the SNP were willing to give way on independence.
8. John Ashmore discovers Aaron Porter still wants a political career.
9. Luke Bozier wants the Labour Party to embrace the private sector.
10. Political Scrapbook report that Bill Aitken has quit.
11. Peter Hoskin wonders how far Cameron is willing to go.
12. And finally, Norman Tebbit wins the award for the most entertaining blog title.

On My LBC Show Tonight From 7pm...

7PM Is Gadaffi doomed? As protests mount in Libya, is it time for Britain to reflect on its policy towards Libya and ask if the fact that Gadaffi has lasted 41 years is in part our fault?

8PM Should we be worried by the dramatic decline in language teaching in our schools?

9PM LBC Book Club with Duff Hart Davis (THE WAR THAT NEVER WAS) and Bill Brown (I'LL TELL YOUR MOTHER!)

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Political Correctness in our Prisons

After two months of blogging silence, I make a one day only return to the medium, to implore you to listen to a six minute chunk of a phone in I did last night on Prisoner's rights. A prison officer called Charlie phoned in. What he said amazed me. No wonder prisoners think they've got the upper hand nowadays. Listen to this and then tell me if we have got our priorities right. I'm about to email Prisons minister Crispin Blunt to ask him to have a listen too - and then do something about the matters Charlie raises.

For those of you who can't be arsed to listen to it, Charlie tells us all the words prison officers are now reportedly banned from using. Political correctness, it seems, is now an integral part of the HM Prison Service.

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The Daley (Half) Dozen: Friday

1. Neil O'Brien thinks the Welfare Bill is a step in the right direction.
2. The ASI wonder why Caroline Spellman is apologising for being right.
3. Iain Martin explains why he thinks the PM is joining the No to AV battle.
4. Tony Dolphin is optimistic about retail sales, for now.
5. Andrew RT Davies makes clear his views on AV.
6. Lastly, Shane Greer has stumbled across the trailer for Atlas Shrugged:

On My LBC Show Tonight From 7pm...

7PM What rights do prisoners have? Today the High Court blocked a compensation bid by prisoners who were complaining they hadn’t been given the right to vote. And also today, the segregation of two high profile Islamic terrorist prisoners accused of bullying and intimidating other prisoners over matters of faith was upheld as lawful. Why are prisoners allowed to bring these ridiculous cases to the courts? Of course we should treat prisoners fairly, but isn’t it up to the prison authorities how prisoners are housed? And why should the taxpayer provide legal aid to help convicted terrorists waste a court’s time?

8PM Beyonce’s gone white. Why do we want to change the way we look? Is it all to do with vanity? Or does it betray an inner unhappiness with our lives? Why do people have cosmetic surgery when it usually makes them look worse? Why do people dye their hair? Why can’t we be satisfied with the hand that nature dealt us? Why do so few of us have a positive self image?

8.30PM Have you ever tried to learn a second language? Was it a success or a complete failure?

9PM Opera: Are operas like Anna Nicole Smith & Jerry Springer dumbing down opera or is it making opera more accessible to the masses?


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The Daley Dozen: Thursday

1. Working Class Tory explains why we need to redraw our constiuencies.
2. Eamonn Butler wants to scrap the minimum wage for young people.
3. Heresy Corner exposes the Yes to AV campaign.
4. Guido has a video of the Jo Swinson gaffe.
5. Think Defence takes a look at the Military Covenant.
6. Mark D'Arcy analyses last night's war in the Lords.
7. Matthew Hancock gives Miliband a lesson in economics.
8. Paul Waugh reckons Nick Clegg is wearing the trousers.
9. Mark Pack takes a look back to the 2001 General Election.
10. John Redwood on the Bank of England.
11. Better Nation is a bit fed up with politics.
12. Stephen Hoffman reveals an alarming power of government.

On My LBC Show Tonight From 7pm...

7PM The World Health Organisation has published a report which shows the average amount drunk in the UK is the 16th highest in the whole world. Is it time to admit that we’re a nation of drunks? And that we need to do something about it? Should we raise the drinking age to 21? Stop 24 hour drinking? Double the tax on alcohol? If you had to pick one policy to reduce our propensity to drink ourselves what would it be?

8PM We’re all excited about the Olympics, well some of us are, but if you can’t get a ticket would you buy one from a tout? Touts face fines of £5000 and substantial jail sentences if they’re caught. Which leads me to ask, what on earth is wrong with ticket touting? Have you ever bought from a tout? If you’re a tout yourself, do you fear these draconian punishments?

9PM LBC legal hour with Daniel Barnett from Outer Temple Chambers

The Daley Dozen: Wednesday

1. Paul Waugh has an interesting letter from the two Eds.
2. Big Brother Watch publish a review of their recent book.
3. David Blanchflower thinks we shouldn't raise interest rates.
4. Andy Mayer wants to sack incompetent public sector workers.
5. Mark D'Arcy has all the details on the AV vote in the Lords.
6. Max Atkinson is uncertain that Dimbleby should have a lecture.
7. Nik Darlington reviews PMQs.
8. Daniel Hannan wants to make councils self financing.
9. Next Left on Andrew Cooper.
10. Tom Clougherty wants a British Bill of Rights to entrench liberty.

11. Mark Wallace isn't happy with East Coast Train's lasagne.

12. Ellee Seymour celebrates five years of blogging.

On My LBC Show Tonight From 7pm...

7pm: Parliamentary supremacy versus EHCR. Last week it was prisoners votes, this week it is responsible for preventing us keeping sex offenders on the sex offenders register for life. Is now the time to review our human rights laws? Should we withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights and reassert our own parliamentary sovereignty? Guest: David Davis

8pm: 8PM What would you take to the streets over? Demonstrating and protesting seem to be in vogue at the moment. We’ve seen it over tuition fees, EMAs, the cuts, and in Egypt. Harriett Harman says today she wants us to take to the streets to make the government stand by it’s commitment to meet the 0.7% of GDP aid target. Would that get you out on the streets? Guest: Harriet Harman

9pm: LBC Parliament with Paul Richards, Jo-Anne Nadler and Dr Evan Harris.

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The Daley Dozen: Tuesday

1. Fraser Nelson puts forward the case for raising interest rates.
2. Nick Robinson analyses the new guy at No10.

3. Dick Puddlecote publishes a letter from a rather disgruntled man.

4. Ranjit Sidhu thinks the Chinese economy may still crash.
5. Julia Manning wants to raise the status of caring.
6. John Broughton won't be voting for more powers for the Welsh Assembly.
7. Anna Racoon never sees a kind word in the Guardian.
8. David Blackburn reckons the government is getting a reputation.
9. Walaa Idris thinks it is time to pop the question.
10. Biased BBC exposes Marcus Brigstocke as a hypocrite.
11. Duncan Robinson has the Hamilton's Ghost picture. Cringe.
12. No to AV unveil their new campaign video: