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Continue reading →: How to win an internet poll
You Are Awesome | Sharpe's Opinion.Wow. Mr Sharpe really wants your vote. He doesn't think much of his readers' self respect though, does he? Now my readers are intelligent, confident people who would despise such flattery. Aren't you? I do hope so, because I am rubbish at it.
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Continue reading →: They lie because it works
News Rage UK: Home Secretary statement on annual crime statistics. Fleet Street used to have a drinking culture. Maybe it's hard drugs now? How else can one account for journalists failing to connect the story linked above with the one I blogged about here? If you believe domestic burglary in…
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Continue reading →: You have a vote
No, there's no General Election yet. Gordon Brown is still denying the people their lawful prey and his party (not that he cares) will suffer all the more for it in due course. But until that happy day, you can at least vote for your favourite political blogs. Total Politics…
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Continue reading →: Banks should publish pay and bonuses of all top earners, if they want to export City jobs
Bank should publish pay and bonuses of all top earners, Walker Report recommends – Telegraph. Somewhere, there is a room. In it sit the chief looters of Britain; the leaders of leftist thought. Each day, over fair trade coffee, they ask themselves one question. How can we destroy Britain's economy?…
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Continue reading →: Bringing Jacqui to Justice
Sunlight COPs Will Prosecute Jacqui Smith | Sunlight Centre for Open Politics.The Sunlight Centre for Open Politics is going to do what the Crown Prosecution Service will not; prosecute Jacqui Smith for her fraudulent expenses claim. Nothing could do more to restore confidence in British justice than to demonstrate that…
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Continue reading →: Britblog Roundup 229
Britblog Roundup 229: The Bumper Office Moving Edition | The Wardman Wire.Click on the title to innoculate yourself with the latest dose of British bloggery goodness, hosted by The Wardman Wire.
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Continue reading →: Should BA survive?
British Airways needs job cuts to survive, CEO says. It pays to stop from time to time, look at your business and ask "If I were starting today, is this how I would do it?" If you apply this test to BA, the answer is certainly "no." In many respects,…
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Continue reading →: Difference and Similarity
I am spending this week and next in Shanghai for my work, which pleases me greatly. It's only my third visit and the first where I have been able to stay a while. I have always been fascinated by China. This is a culture which has existed continuously for thousands…
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Continue reading →: Harriet Harman is as daft as a brush
Discrimination against northerners to be banned under Harriet Harman plans – Telegraph. Indeed, lads and lasses, if brains were gunpowder, she wouldn't have enough to blow her bloody hat off. I grew up "oop North" among just the kind of hatred to which she is now pandering. I remember a…
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Continue reading →: Does Shahid have a point?
Twitter / Shahid Ahmad: When Theo van Gogh was mur …. Blogger Shahid Ahmad of Suspect Paki is tweeting furiously about this shocking story. A Russian in Germany was being prosecuted at the instigation of a Muslim couple for "insult and abuse". The accused strode across the court room and…
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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.
Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.
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