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Continue reading →: nourishing obscurity: [blogfocus saturday] a little out of focus this evening
Link: nourishing obscurity: [blogfocus saturday] a little out of focus this evening. James Higham, the headmaster of our Blogpower school, has a slightly “out of focus” Blogfocus up over at Nourishing Obscurity. As always, an interesting selection. How does he find time?
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Continue reading →: There are lies, damned lies, statistics and then there’s …
Link: BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Running the rule over Stern’s numbers. When even the Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation’s servile Government toadies journalists start to question New Labour’s Holy Writ, we must surely wonder what is going on. Consider this report from BBC Online’s Science pages; Richard Tol is a professor…
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Continue reading →: NHS Blog Doctor: Petition to sack Patricia Hewitt
Link: NHS Blog Doctor: Petition to sack Patricia Hewitt. I can’t personally see the point, as Labour doesn’t exactly have a stable of great talent in reserve. Who would they replace her with? John Prescott? John Reid? Alan Johnson? Or some other tosser with no experience of the real world…
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Continue reading →: I am not Michael Howard
You are 17% Home Secretary material! Pretty awful. You’re guaranteed of a rough ride from the Daily Mail. Don’t give up your day job, because you won’t be in office for long. Could you run the Home Office?Make a Quiz
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Continue reading →: Blogpower Testimonial 10: Ellee Seymour
Link: Ellee Seymour – Why me?. There is a sense in which Ellee Seymour is cheating. She is no"citizen journalist" blogger, but a professional PR person and former "dead tree" hack. She spins, no doubt guilefully, for her political PR clients, making politicians look better than they are (why else…
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Continue reading →: Poll Results: Which Blogpower Blog should be the subject of my final review?
Link: Poll Results: Which Blogpower Blog should be the subject of my final review?. OK, the votes are in and my final review will be of Ellee Seymour’s blog. I shall do the research over the next couple of days. Wish me luck. Better yet, email me your own thoughts…
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Continue reading →: How to make my child feel like a black sheep – Comment – Times Online
Link: How to make my child feel like a black sheep – Comment – Times Online. I am so sick of Trevor Phillips. The man has never done an honest days work in his life, moving without pause from student politics to allegedly “grown-up” politics. He is a parasite, living…
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Continue reading →: Supermarket giants could make couple’s dream ‘a nightmare’ | 24dash.com – Communities
Link: Supermarket giants could make couple’s dream ‘a nightmare’ | 24dash.com – Communities. I have discovered a site which bills itself as “News for the British public sector and beyond.” It’s a little like falling through the looking glass. Consider this story. Tesco “kindly” allow an elderly couple to use…
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Continue reading →: How we left the Church behind… « Birmingham University Conservative Forum
Link: How we left the Church behind… « Birmingham University Conservative Forum. Out of curiosity I had a look at the Birmingham University Conservative Forum blog. BUCF is the successor to the University’s Conservative Association of which, many moons ago, I was first secretary and then chairman. I have found…
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Continue reading →: ‘Grammar schools should never have been closed’ minister admits | the Daily Mail
Link: ‘Grammar schools should never have been closed’ minister admits | the Daily Mail. I have waited for this admission of the obvious for 30 years, since my own education was trashed by the mad ideologues of the British Left. Can I now sue? How infuriating that it comes (albeit…
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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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