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• Rumors Before The Internet

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 147
  Forty years ago, the rumor that Paul McCartney had died, and that the Beatles had covered up his death while for some reason scattering clues of it in their albums, leapt from the counterculture to the mainstream, where it briefly transfixed millions. The key event in the rumor going viral was a Michigan Daily article ...
  3 hours ago

• Ill need volunteers to make big society work, says David Cameron

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Tory leader says Labours big state has squeezed out kindness and social responsibility Steve Bell
  6 hours ago

• A contest Gordon Brown dare not lose

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 155
  Film buffs in the soft south know more than they realise about Glasgow North East. Criminologists know more than they would like to. So do poverty analysts and critics of the former Commons Speaker, Michael Martin, whose enforced resignation triggered the contest in this traditional Labour stronghold. Home to ...
  7 hours ago

• MTV

  
  GrumpyOldTwat — Authority: 426
  Oh for fucks sake! How many more titles is this unelected, self gratifying, power crazed shit stain going to give himself? Meet the new Minister for Information who is set to make history as the first minister to make weekly televised briefings. Welcome to Mandeslon TV. I can hardly fucking wait.
  9 hours ago

• A revolting Tory

  
  The Bickerstaffe Record — Authority: 118
  Now then, the team at the Bickerstaffe Record’s been beavering behind the scenes, but not posted much recently.  Well, when I say ‘not much’, I mean  ‘nothing’.  Not a bean.  Or a sausage. So full throttle ahead for some thrilling investigative reporting, finely tuned analysis, and breaking news items ...
  9 hours ago

• As forseen a few months ago

  
  Man in a Shed — Authority: 424
  See here to see first use of this prophetic picture.
  9 hours ago

• Police to continue to hold DNA of innocent people

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  • Profiles to be kept for six years under revised bill • Terror suspects details could be held indefinitely Chief constables are to carry on refusing requests to delete the DNA profiles of arrested people released without charge, while a fresh political battle is waged over how long the details should remain on ...
  10 hours ago

• Mixing it up in the voting lobby

  
  And another thing... — Authority: 577
  THIS has never happened to me before: yesterday I received an email from the House authorities apologising for an “Error in division  241 on 9 November”: I am sorry that there was a mistake that has come to my attention in the recording of this division.  Your name was marked down as voting Aye instead of Dr ...
  10 hours ago

• Kenneth Royle - Glasgow North East

  
  SUBROSA — Authority: 543
  Many of you will know by now that Im a regular reader of the Scottish Review and in particular a fan of the journalist Kenneth Royle. My interest in his writings goes way back to the heady days when the Scotland on Sunday was launched, when I thought Scotland would finally have a newspaper which would cover the ...
  11 hours ago

• SNP braced for second successive byelection defeat by Labour in Glasgow North East

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Alex Salmond claims ground shifting towards his party but falls short of predicting victory in Glasgow North East Alex Salmond is braced for a second successive byelection defeat by Labour tomorrow despite claiming a late surge in support for the Scottish National party in Glasgow North East. Scotlands first ...
  12 hours ago

• Things to do on your day off – Listen to “Mandelson Hypocrisy”- BBC Radio Kent product placement – Blogging – Political Redemption

  
  BIGNEWS MARGATE — Authority: 413
  Firstly listen to radio fours “Today” programme for as long as you can bear, which in my case was until Peter “Chump” Mandelson came on and proceeded to criticise the Murdoch Press (not that Im to keen), I think the suggestion of bias towards the conservative party was more than a bit rich, quality Mandelson ...
  12 hours ago

• Ed Balls: Time for Tories to back guarantee for school leavers

  
  Labour Matters — Authority: 524
  Labour’s Schools Secretary Ed Balls MP today renewed his challenge to the Conservatives to back the Labour Government’s successful September Guarantee for school leavers. The call came after unemployment figures published today showed a fall in the number of 16 and 17 year olds unemployed and record numbers of ...
  13 hours ago

• Defining merit

  
  Borthlas — Authority: 123
  Interesting report published this week by the IWA on the effect that women have had on the development of the National Assembly, and the likely changes in the representation of women in the next Assembly. Both Labour and Plaid took particular measures to try and ensure fair representation for women, and those ...
  14 hours ago

• Today’s unemployment figures: a very mixed picture

  
  ToUChstone blog: A public policy blog from the TUC — Authority: 538
  Today’s unemployment figures provide welcome signs that sharp rises in unemployment levels may be behind us. But there are mixed messages – young people and those at risk of long-term unemployment are feeling the effects of the downturn much more than other groups. Unemployment increased 30,000 on the quarter, ...
  16 hours ago

• Waiting for the axe to fall

  
  Lightwater — Authority: 134
  In talking about the state of the UK economy, we’re in the period when the prisoner knows he’s been convicted, sentence passed, now just waits for the axe to fall. Grim analogy I know. But, folks, the state of our economy is perilous. Everyone, I’m confident, knows that the axe is coming, but are not quite ...
  17 hours ago

• David Cameron’s ‘Social Entrepreneurs’: ‘TeePee’ Tories Are No More

  
  EcoLogics — Authority: 122
  in a speech delivered as part of the Guardian Scott Society’s Hugo Young Lectures, Cameron finally came out and showed his true blue colours, his true face: what we need, he said, is less government, and more ‘social entrepreneurs’, i.e. replacing the tattered remains of the welfare state with a neo-Victorian ...
  17 hours ago

• Quote of the Day - A Nu Labour Mission Statement

  
  The Appalling Strangeness — Authority: 434
  An extract from a post at Wonkos World years ago that, to this day, reads not as satire, but an actual mission statement for the Nu Labour government: Besides which we just can’t help but meddle, interfere, impose our views on others, and generally use taxpayers resources in ways that are wasteful except in our ...
  18 hours ago

• Punjab industry in trouble as Biharis head home

  
  Jai Bihar — Authority: 443
  LUDHIANA / PATNA / SITAMARHI — The onset of winter has brought both cheer and fear for the hosiery industrialists of Punjab. The fear of not meeting the demand in the domestic market is haunting the industry. Owing to labour being pre-occupied with projects in Bihar, the industry is facing severe labour shortage. ...
  18 hours ago

• Labour councillor in cheap and prejudicial shot ?

  
  BIGNEWS MARGATE — Authority: 413
  It’s my own view but I get the impression from Cllr Mark Nottingham latest posting that he is pushing the boundaries of what is acceptable comment. Most of us are familiar with allegations made and the legal process involving a leading member of Thanet’s Conservative party and Nottingham’s current blog post ...
  19 hours ago

• Gordon Brown’s insulting letter

  
  Beau Bo D'Or — Authority: 117
  [IMG: http://heady.co.uk/politics/the_sun_gordon_brown_insulting_letter.gif]
  19 hours ago

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