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Voting against the wreckers?
Just about sums up the mood of the world at the moment…
UPDATE: 62 per cent of electors defy insurgency to vote in Iraq’s recent general election. You can bet that fewer than 50 per cent will even bother turning out to vote in Britain’s own general election.
Will we defy terminal cynicism in order to change [...]
Ex Labour leader Michael Foot dies
A sad day for British politics. Read here.
Micheal Foot was a political titan, who became Labour’s last-ever socialist leader in 1980. Throughout his leadership, he had to suffer both derision from both political foes and allies alike, and the mass defection of many MPs to the short-lived Social Democratic Party in 1981. Despite seeing the [...]
‘Entryism’ into Labour is nothing new
Many parts of the media, and the blogosphere are getting their knickers in a twist over allegations that a radical Islamist group has infiltrated sections of the Labour Party in East London.
Channel 4 TV’s Dispatches programme on Monday investigated claims that members of the Islamic forum of Europe have been able to get into positions [...]
“Workshy” Brits fail employment test
A BBC television documentary, to be shown on Wednesday, tried to test a well-worn perception that British workers get fewer employment opportunities than their foreign counterparts.
The Daily Star reported that producers for the documentary, The Day The Immigrants Left, put twelve long-term jobless Brits into unskilled work current carried out by immigrants as an experiment. [...]
Woods versus Brown
Golfer Tiger Woods’ grovelling public statement yesterday:
“I was unfaithful, I had affairs and I cheated. What I did was unacceptable….. I hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife’s family, my friends, my foundation and kids all around the world who admired me.”
Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s desperate pre-election battle-cry:
“I know that Labour hasn’t done [...]
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