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"History and common sense, then, suggests that high unemployment is, if not inevitable, then at least normal. Which makes a White Paper issued this week by the Department for Work and Pensions all the more remarkable. It affirms an “ambition for full employment”, defined as having eight out of ten people of working age in employment (the current rate is 72.5 per cent). This would require an extra 2.9 million people to find work, on top of any population growth. The DWP says that such a rate “has not been seen before in the UK and is not seen in any of the other major developed countries”. What happened to evidence-based policy-making?"

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PETER HITCHENS: Burglar in your home? I¿d give him a cup of tea if I were you | Mail Online

"This liberal elite do not believe that burglary is wrong, so they won’t punish burglars properly. They think burglars steal because they are deprived, or because they were abused as children, or because they cannot get ‘treatment’ for their disgusting criminal drug habits. So many of our leaders now are unrepentant illegal drug-takers themselves that they shouldn’t be trusted near the making of laws.

If you want to know what to be really angry about, listen to ‘Judge’ John Reddihough, the insufferable political commissar who imprisoned Munir Hussain – for doing what we would all like to do to the man who invaded his home and terrorised his family. "

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ANALYSIS: Saved - the trillion-pound trade in carbon | Mail Online

"he frenzied negotiations we have just seen were never about 'saving the planet'. They were always about money. At stake was this new 'climate change industry' which last year ripped off £129billion from the global economy and is heading for that trillion-pound bonanza by 2020 - but only if the key parts of the Kyoto treaty could be renewed.

With the treaty due to expire by 2012, unless it was replaced, the money tree would fail. Hence, all the power and vested interests of big business were brought into play, stoking up the panic over climate change to create an atmosphere where the parties could keep the money flowing.

Carbon Trading is barely 13 years old yet the scale of the industry is astonishing. Overall control lies with an obscure committee created by Kyoto, The Clean Development Mechanism Executive. It issues firms with the 'golden tickets' known as Certified Emission Reductions (CERs)."

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Sharmine Narwani: Being Anti-Israel and Anti-Zionist Is the "New Anti-Semitism"

"A Jewish woman, deriding protesters at a UK rally on Sunday in support of charging former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni with war crimes, declared loudly into a TV camera that being anti-Israel and anti-Zionist is the "new anti-Semitism." Such licentious language. Meant primarily, I might add, to inflame passions and mislead public opinion by invoking a word - anti-Semitism - that we have been well-conditioned to condemn above all other forms of racism or prejudice. I am sorry the woman fears anti-Semitism, pogroms and hatred around every corner. It's not my problem, frankly. Let her get therapy. Does that sound harsh? Sorry, again. But I for one get pretty irritated hearing false cries of anti-Semitism against anyone who criticizes Israel, its human rights crimes, its crazy settler movement, its unique brand of crypto-racism against non-Jews living within the state and its occupied territories."

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What sort of society praises vigilantes with cricket bats? | Catherine Bennett | Comment is free | The Observer

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Liberal Conspiracy » What drives the global warming deniers?

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How dictators watch us on the web

"The internet is meant to help activists, enable democratic protest and weaken the grip of authoritarian regimes. But it doesn’t—in fact, the web is a boon for bullies"

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Failed skills quango pays £30million bonuses while losing taxpayers hundreds of millions

"A quango lavished bonuses worth almost £30million on its staff while it was losing hundreds of millions for the taxpayer, figures revealed yesterday.The Learning and Skills Council paid almost £5million on top of salaries to its bureaucrats this year alone - even while their losses were being investigated."

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Homosexuality Bill Opposed - NYTimes

"The United States is urging Uganda to drop a bill that would criminalize homosexuality, saying its passage could encourage other African countries to make similar moves"

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When bamboozling spins out of control

"A financial plumbing system that should be as small as possible, simply channelling money from savers to borrowers as cheaply and unobtrusively as possible, has instead transformed and furred up into a vast, Byzantine system of gold-plated pipes and valves of ludicrous complexity."

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