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• 19,950 Indian “Students” Pour into Britain in Just Two Months

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 627
  19,950 Indian “students” have poured into Britain in just two months since Labour’s much-vaunted “points-based immigration crackdown” — triple the number last year and boosting Britain’s total student population by five percent in eight weeks. The shocking figures emerged after the producers of the BBC ...
  4 hours ago

• Opinion: The Nutt affair - or, the thin line between evidence and policy

  
  LibDemBlogs — Authority: 176
  Firstly, a disclaimer: I am a scientist, who is also interested in governance and politics, so the following post may come across as somewhat heated. Apologies, but I do feel that the recent furore over Prof. David Nutts sacking as Chair of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) goes right to the heart of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sacked – for telling the truth about drugs

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 570
  Sacked – for telling the truth about drugs Government fires top adviser for challenging its hardline policy on cannabis and ecstasy By Jeremy Laurance October 31, 2009 The Government’s drugs tsar was forced to resign last night for stating his view that cannabis, ecstasy and LSD were less harmful than the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Fuck Off And Die. Go On. All Of You.

  
  GrumpyOldTwat — Authority: 472
  Fuck Off And Die by GrumpyOldTwat
  3 weeks ago

• [Thinks] "Oh dear ... there goes my peerage..."

  
  Mark Wadsworth — Authority: 442
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  3 weeks ago

• Jacqui Smiths revenge on the cartoonists

  
  Telegraph.co.uk News Blog — Authority: 813
  After the farce of last week’s Question Time, this week’s was even more infuriating. Jacqui Smith had the gall to still be with us. Even she – with her headlit rabbit expression throughout the programme – must feel some shame and guilt. Surely. The questions hurled at her were met with, incredibly, the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Drugs policy: Shooting up the messenger

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 162
  Professor David Nutt is an expert in his field: a professor of psychopharmacology at Bristol University and head of neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London. He knows more about the brains responses to anxiety, addiction and sleep than any politician or media commentator. He is precisely the sort of man who ...
  3 weeks ago

• UK Drugs Advisor Nutt sacked for being honest about marijuana

  
  NORML Daily Audio Stash — Authority: 514
  LONDON ( AP ) — Britain’s top drug adviser was fired Friday after saying that marijuana, Ecstasy and LSD were less dangerous than alcohol. David Nutt’s comments have embarrassed the British government, which toughened the penalties for possessing marijuana earlier this year over the protests of many prominent ...
  3 weeks ago

• "Disgraced" Jacqui Smith: no to peerage

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 973
  Jacqui Smith the former Home Secretary has ruled herself out of a peerage after admitting she had been "disgraced" by the expenses scandal.
  3 weeks ago

• On Question Time Jacqui Smith tries to defend her failure to return the £116,000 she took in housing allowances - despite having broken the rules on MPs expenses

  
  PlayPolitical.com - Labour Party — Authority: 494
  
  3 weeks ago

• Quote of the Day - John Sergeant

  
  The Appalling Strangeness — Authority: 137
  Via Tory Bear , this comment from John Sergeant on Jacqui Smith and her inability to know where she actually lives has to be todays quote of the day - it is priceless: "It is a puzzle to people, when you’re asked where your home was, and you were Home Secretary, and you didn’t seem to give the right answer", he ...
  3 weeks ago

• Will David Nutt be listened to by Alan Johnson?

  
  Mark Reckons — Authority: 112
  Professor David Nutt has made some more comments today about the relative harm of drugs including alcohol and tobacco and has accused politicians of distorting and devaluing the debate. It sounds like he agrees wholeheartedly with me! Perhaps I should see if he will do a guest post for this blog.... Anyway, I have ...
  3 weeks ago

• LSD and cannabis less harmful than alcohol, says UK govt’s drug expert

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 716
  London, Oct 29 (ANI): In what could come as a rude shock to many alcoholics and smokers, the British government’s drug adviser has said that drugs like Ecstasy, LSD and cannabis are less harmful than alcohol and cigarettes.Criticising former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith’s decision to rate cannabis as a Class B ...
  3 weeks ago

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