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Review of the decade: Classical | Culture | The Guardian
Definitely worth a read, if only for the politics. If you don't notice it, it spells out in big letters that a conservative government will do much to destroy classical music and opera in Britain!
Thinkium
Independent Think Tank: Creating opinions and driving policy
"We say what you pay us to say"
Some novel ideas there, I'd say.
YouTube - Corpsing in the Commons
Streatham MP Keith Hill fails to avoid giggling fit in vote on Short Sea shipping
Johann Hari: The harsh truth about Tory policies - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent
Clegg and Cameron actually same person
David is a clean-shaven upper middle-class white man in a suit, whereas Nick Clegg is, well on that front they were the same. But Cameron went to Eton, whereas Clegg was educated at Westminster. Cameron went to Oxford while Clegg went to Cambridge, Cameron is forty, while Clegg is thirty-nine. The differences just go on and on…
Next Left: Labour's record on poverty and inequality
An important analysis of why David Cameron is talking nonsense
"To test what you think about this claim it helps to consider the 'counterfactual' exercise I mentioned above: If the Conservative approach - eschewing greater redistribution - had been applied since 1997, in place of Labour's consistently redistributive approach, do you think poverty and/or inequality would be lower today or higher?"
BBC NEWS | Business | How every household lost £31,000
This is way too abstract. I know that the notional value of my house has fallen dramatically, but when I had it valued in March 2007, at the peak of the market, I remarked to Jimmy that it was over-valued, and, in any case, fictional until I tried to realise it (which would have entailed buying another over-valued property).
I think for most of us on modest earned incomes (ie not from invrstments), practical affordability matters more that abstract wealth/value
NewsBiscuit » News In Brief » Cabinet Office: ‘All Departments must have same Acronym’
DCTS eg Department for Crime, Terror and Security
Armed Forces Day
A pretty good post from DG.
I would actually go further. It actually sticks in my gut every time we have to feel sorry for someone who joins an organisation with a realistic expectation of "success" being killing other people, usually unarmed non-combatants, including children, or poor sodding bastards conscripted into someone else's army by accident of birth or by fear and intimidation or economic necessity.
I'd rather we had a day to commemorate the firefighters, customs officers, probation officers, fishermen, oil rig workers, builders, and, yes, even the police, who died while making my life better because I have a job with no realistic probability of death.
This much I know: Dennis Skinner, politician, 77, London | Life and style | The Observer
The greatest!
Hope Not Hate | Nick Griffin: Not in my name
Organised by Searchlight
Petition to demonstrate your opposition to the BNP
NewsBiscuit » Politics » Brown ‘desperately holding out for major terrorist attack or something’
Of course, the thought has gone through all our minds, but it takes extreme bravery or sheer utter stupidity, not sure which, actually to post it to teh internets
The Provisional BBC: PR Referendum now doubtful
Momentum for a referendum on PR to be conducted at the same time as the next General Election has stalled after supporters failed to agree on how the referendum should be conducted.
Keith Hill MP for Streatham - News from Westminster - MPs' Expenses
Like the public in general I have been horrified at the evidence of abuse of the allowances system. As an MP representing an inner London seat, with my home in Streatham, I knew nothing of the scope for manipulation of the second home arrangement and was amazed to learn of the £400 monthly food allowance. I eat all my meals in the week at the House of Commons and it had never occurred to me that an MP would not pay out of his or her own pocket.
NewsBiscuit » Isle of Wight News » ‘Waiting for Gordo’ is West End smash
And ‘Look Back in Anger’ features a cast of thousands of political activists who gave up endless evenings and weekends to get their bloody MPs elected.
Fat cat care worker won’t hand back 7 pence an hour pay increase
Superb biting send-up.
Sadly, the exes issue has managed to bury the fact that theTories want to abolish the minimum wage
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