Friday, June 23, 2006

Barnett Says Scrap Barnett

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Lord Barnett has said the Barnett formula, which allocates extra public spending resources to Scotland, should be scrapped. Here's an ex...
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Why I love Australia...

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...well, actually, it's why Charles Krauthammer loves Australia. Click HERE to read his brilliant Washington Post article. I've onl...
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The Gorgeous Leaflet of Young Ben Abbotts

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Bromley LibDem Candidate Ben Abbotts is delivering a TV Quick type leaflet round the constituency at the moment headlined BEN ABBOTTS: LIV...
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The Reputation of Neville Chamberlain: Speaker Meeting

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The next speaker meeting of the Conservative History Group will be held on Tuesday 18 July at 6.30pm in the Boothroyd Room of the House of C...
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Guido's on the Trail of Sleazy Levy

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Guido is on the trail of the man he kindly dubs the Sleazemaster General, Lord Levy. Read HERE the new questions he thinks Levy should ans...

Nick Clarke's Audio Diary Is a Radio Masterpiece

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I switched on Radio 4 this morning wondering who would be on Desert Islands Discs only to find they had replaced it with an audio diary by N...
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Thursday, June 22, 2006

Ben Abbott Fails to Learn from History

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No comment necessary. Particularly from me. I'll get my coat. Perhaps I should have done after this picture. I wonder if the press will ...
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Your Earliest Political Memory?

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In his interview on this blog earlier this week Adam Rickitt said his earliest political memory was the tearing down of the Berlin Wall. Diz...
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Pete Doherty's 150 Grand Injection

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The publisher of my last book was Weidenfeld and Nicolson, which is owned by Orion Publishing. Today it was reported that Orion has paid an ...
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Who are the Bashful Three?

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The Evening Standard reports tonight that a Labour donor has spent fifty grand on legal advice before being interviewed by Inspector Knacker...
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Maguire Fingered!

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Spotted: The Mirror's Kevin Maguire emerging from The Treasury this lunchtime. Expect a glowing piece on Gordon Brown in his paper tomor...
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New Freedom of Information Blog From the BBC

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An old friend of mine Martin Rosenbaum has started a blog. Martin wrote a very good book on political campaigning a few years ago called Fro...
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Gordon Brown Supports Government Policy Shocker

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Perhaps I am missing something but can someone please explain to me why the BBC is leading its news bulletins and its onine news pages with ...
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Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Charles Kennedy Begins The Long Walk Back

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Charles Kennedy begins Project Rehabilitation on Question Time tomorrow night. He's known to still be furious at the way he was overthro...
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Sue Ellen, You're a Drunk, a Whore & An Unfit Mother!

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Blogging will be a little light for the next few hours as I take some time out to meet three of my TV heroes, Larry Hagman, Linda Gray and P...
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Vote for a New Conservative Logo

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ConservativeHome is inviting you to vote for your favoured new Conservative Party logo HERE .
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Scrapping Barnett: Alice Thomson is Right & Wrong

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Alice Thomson has an excellent article on today's Telegraph headlined HOW TO DEFUSE THE SCOTTISH QUESTION. You can read it HERE . She ar...
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It's the UK Not the USA Which Needs to Look Beyond Its Borders

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I've just spent half an hour on Crane Durham's Nothing But the Truth on 97.1 FM Talk in St Louis Missouri. Crane is a right wing ...
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Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Dave 1 Gordon 0

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That nice Hugo Rifkind is reporting this interesting piece of political football gossip... David Cameron is on his way to Germany for the m...
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Tony Blair's Football Credentials

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From The Guardian ... It was the question about the Scots, specifically his next-door neighbour, and Britons not supporting England which dr...
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