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• Yesterday in parliament

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  26 November session Recession and unemployment Britains dole queues will continue to lengthen "for a while", the chancellor, Alistair Darling, warned. Darling insisted the country was coming out of recession and would return to growth "around the turn of the year". In the final days debate on the Queens speech, ...
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• Review recommends pay rise for peers

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Senior Salaries Review Board proposes single daily allowance for Lords, which amounts to £38.50 increase A review into the system of Lords allowances initiated after the expenses scandal has recommended that peers should receive what amounts to a pay rise. In June 2009 the government asked the Senior Salaries ...
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• Maiden Speech of Lord Sugarlump of Claptout (Lab)

  
  The Final Redoubt — Authority: 441
  Before saying a word, Lord Sugar did something I have not seen from a peer. He shot his cuffs. Performed that gesture Del Boy Trotter does when he reckons he is on to a good thing. There may even have been a small tweak of the neck. Alan Sugar taking the Oath of Allegiance
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• House of Lords Cyber Hearings Continue: On CERTs And Trust

  
  UBIWAR — Authority: 433
  The House of Lords continued its committee hearings on EU large-scale cyber attacks yesterday. Giving evidence were Andrew Cormack of JANET and Chris Gibson of FIRST . They spoke almost with one voice on a variety of subjects, principal amongst them the role of Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs). Not as ...
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• Yesterday in parliament

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  25 November session Iraq inquiry Gordon Brown was accused of attempting to "suffocate" the Iraq inquiry by imposing restrictions on what information could be released in Sir John Chilcots final report. Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, said Whitehall departments had "outrageously" been given the right to ...
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• Thanksgiving Pulpit Used to Attack Suffrage

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 470
  The Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church took the opportunity of his Thanksgiving Day sermon yesterday to attack the campaign for womens right to vote, by attempting to denigrate some of those who support it.
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• Lord Sugars maiden speech - an exercise in self-promotion

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  The enterprise tsar got a polite reception in the Lords, but I suspect some of them did not really approve Lord Sugar, the governments enterprise tsar, may have many virtues but modesty isnt one of them. Hes just delivered his maiden speech in the House of Lords and it was probably one of the most brazen exercises in ...
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• Yesterday in parliament

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  24 November session Floods Flooding on the scale seen in Cumbria over recent days will become more frequent due to climate change, Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, warned. He said people in the rain-lashed county were battling with the "worst flooding in memory". Miliband said: "We must act not just to adapt to ...
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• Scotland Yard forwards four MPs’ expenses files to prosecutors

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, Nov. 24 (ANI): Scotland Yard has forward four cases of MPs and peers facing criminal charges of fraud over their expenses claims to prosecutors. According to The Telegraph, those facing prosecution are Labour MPs Elliot Morley, David Chaytor and Jim Devine, and peers Baroness Uddin, Lord Hanningfield and Lord ...
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• Yesterday in parliament

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  November 23 session Afghanistan David Miliband, the foreign secretary, defended continuing British military involvement in Afghanistan in the face of growing unrest among MPs. He said it was "completely reasonable" to stick with the plan of building up Afghan security forces, to withstand Taliban insurgency. But ...
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• MPs expenses: police send files on four MPs and peers to CPS

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  • Director of prosecutions to decide if trials take place • Accused parliamentarians all deny wrongdoing Scotland Yard believes it has uncovered enough evidence to bring criminal charges against four MPs and peers for allegedly abusing their expenses. Police announced they had sent files of evidence concerning ...
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• CPS asked to consider charging parliamentarians

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Police have not named the four, but they reportedly include members of both Lords and Commons Prosecutors have been asked to consider charging four parliamentarians in relation to expenses abuses, Scotland Yard said today. Files on four cases have been sent to the Crown Prosecution Service following a police ...
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• Ladies Shirtwaist Makers Vote to Strike

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 470
  Between 17,000 and 18,000 shirtwaist makers, about 70 percent of whom are women, voted last night to strike, and 40,000 are expected to stay out today. They demand recognition of the Ladies Waist-Makers Union, an increase of 25 to 30 percent over the current wage of $10 to $12 a week, and a workweek of 52 hours ...
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• Digital economy bill: A punishing future

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  The digital economy bill is misnamed. A more honest title for the legislation, recently introduced in the Lords , would be the copyright protection and punishment bill. It is less about creating the digital businesses of the 21st century than protecting the particular 20th century business models used in music and ...
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• Where are all the MPs? Watching parliament on TV

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  The televising of the Commons, begun 20 years ago, was inevitable – but it has diminished the chamber Is it really 20 years since they fitted new, brighter lights above the chamber of the Commons , drove out those atmospheric, blokeish shadows and finally allowed in the TV cameras? My, time flies when youre having ...
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• Yesterday in parliament

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  19 November session Free homecare proposals The schools secretary, Ed Balls, shrugged off criticism from a senior Labour peer of the legislative programme outlined by the Queen on Wednesday. In the Queens speech debate, Balls faced repeated opposition taunts over barbed remarks from Lord Lipsey about the ...
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• Euthanasia bill unexpectedly defeated in South Australia

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 136
  In a surprise victory for pro-life advocates, South Australia’s Upper House has narrowly voted down an amendment to their palliative care legislation that would have legalized euthanasia, reports Patrick B. Craine, LifeSiteNews.com.The bill was proposed by Greens member Mark Parnell. It was expected to pass 11-10, ...
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• Sir Alan Sugar: "The Lords think Im a brusque ignorant cockney"

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 972
  Celia Walden talks to Lord Sugar of Clapton on the mighty stir his peerage has caused at Westminster
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• BNP targeted Asian peer

  
  Kirklees Unity Exposing the Far Right — Authority: 140
  . The British National Party mixed up two members of the House of Lords during a hate campaign waged on the internet, it has been revealed. Lord Patel of Blackburn (Lab) told peers of his experiences with the ultra-nationalist group during the debate on the Queens Speech yesterday. "I am myself a great lover ...
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• UK’s first female Muslim peer baroness claimed 100K pounds in alowances

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, Nov.19 (ANI): Britain’s first female Muslim peer, Baroness Uddin, claimed 100,000 pounds in parliamentary allowances by registering her main home, a property that she barely occupied. According to The Telegraph, she was the first peer to be probed for her use of the 174-pound-a-night subsistence allowance in ...
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