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Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Ken Livingstone's £1000 a Minute Press Conference

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It's a hard life. Ken Livingstone's four day junket important trip to Latin America cost London council tax payers a massive £36,00...
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The Consequences of Too Many Bills

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The Conservatives have pre-empted tomorrow's Queen's Speech by doing an analysis of the Bills in last year's Speech. Their rese...
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UKIP Will Stand Against Better Off Out Tories

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This evening I interviewed UKIP leader Nigel Farage for an hour on 18DoughtyStreet . To be honest I was rather more impressed him than I exp...
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Conservatives Seek to 'Follow the Money'

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At this evening's ConservativeHome Awards I sat next to George Osborne who was full of a new initiative being unveiled today. He will be...
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Monday, November 13, 2006

Questions on Identity Cards for James Hall

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Tomorrow at 4pm Downing Street will be holding a webchat with James Hall, Chief Executive of the Identity and Passport Service, who will be ...
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Reid Suffers Humiliation over Drugs Payout

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As John Reid and Gordon Brown compete with each other for the "I'm considerably tougher than YOW" (Harry Enfield, 1994) vote, ...
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Sunday, November 12, 2006

Tesco: Every Little Shop Closure Helps...

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Norfolk Blogger reports that Tesco has driven another local shop to the wall in Fakenham. Like him, I was very uncomfortable about Tesco be...
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Long to Reign Over Us

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Stephen Tall's A Liberal Goes A Long Way BLOG has become a daily read for me. Today he has an excellent post on Remembrance Sunday. Wel...
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Andrew Sullivan on Dubya

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Andrew Sullivan is a journalist I often agree with. He's a Brit who's made it big in the US but still writes a Sunday Times column...
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LibDem MEP Compares Israelis to Nazis

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Chris Davies, Liberal Democrat MEP for the North West, is well known for his anti Israeli stance, but now he really seems to have lost his m...
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Watlington on Ali Miraj and Candidates

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I don't know who 'Watlington' is, but his/her writings on the inner workings of the Tory Party are usually well informed and spo...
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Saturday, November 11, 2006

How Could Labour Increase Its Majority?

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Every few weeks I take a look at Jeffrey Archer's BLOG to see what he's been up to. It's rather good, actually. I was particula...
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On 5 Live in the Morning

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I'll be on Radio 5 Live's Julian Worricker programme on Sunday morning from 10-1 looking at the Sunday papers and commenting on this...
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A Tale of Two Ads

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When you're fighting an incumbent Democratic Senator from North Dakota you do some desperate things to raise your profile and draw atten...
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What it Means to be IN THE ARENA

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"It's easier to throw rocks at a house than build one" Congressman Matthew Santos I just heard this quote just now on an episo...
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Labour's Deputies & Alan Johnson's Website

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Alan Johnson hasn't had a very good few months. I thought he would be the one to take on Gordon Brown, and to be honest I worried about ...
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BREAKING NEWS: Meon Valley Selects Hollingbery

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George Hollingbery has just been selected as Conservative Candidate for the new seat of Meon Valley. He beat Kwasi Kwarteng, Rebecca Harris...
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Friday, November 10, 2006

EXCLUSIVE: Galloway Uses F Word With Students

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Last Tuesday Hugo Rifkind wrote about George Galloway's F word tirade against some Oxford students. Some kind soul has sent me the tape....
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Why Identity Cards Are Wrong

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Longrider (which I found via Devil's Kitchen ) has a superb fisking of Tony Blair's article promoting Identity Cards. This is the ...
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New Book on the Scottish Secretaries

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I've just come across a new book profiling all the Scottish Secretaries. It's by David Torrance and you can buy it HERE . I remembe...
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