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7/7/2005, five years on

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Lest we forget….

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Budget Woes

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So, here it comes. Britain’s worst kept secret is out as the Coalition government starts cutting public spending. The emergency budget delivered by Chancellor George Osborne was typically downbeat. It was probably the first in a long series of fiscal cutbacks which will be felt across the country. The headline issues in the Budget include: [...]

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Labour leadership: situation desperate

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At present, the contest to succeed Gordon Brown as leader of the Labour party grows even more desperate by the minute. Five candidates have put their names forward: Andy Burnham, Ed Balls, brothers Ed and David Milliband, and Diane Abbott. Five dull and uninteresting people who were responsible for the party’s problems in office (The [...]

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Britain’s latest shootings shock

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I’m shaking as I type this. A gunman went on the rampage in Cumbria earlier today. Five people were confirmed dead so far, around 25 more wounded…. the gunman then kills himself.  More of this tragic story is unfolding right now. What I cannot understand is how, a minority of people, normally sane, can then [...]

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First cabinet minister quits government

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It’s taken less than three weeks for the Con-Lib coalition government to get its first scandal… except that this one was probably a hangover from the scandals of last summer. Liberal Democrat MP David Laws had been forced to quit his post as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, working with Chancellor George Osborne, for allegedly [...]

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