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• Simon Hoggarts sketch | This should not be allowed

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  It was excruciating. Youd have needed a heart of Kevlar not to sympathise with Gordon Brown yesterdayas he used his press conference to try to portray himself as warm, caring, capable of grief, fully hooked up to a human nervous system. The prime minister has been caught in a ghastly trap by the Sun, which on Monday ...
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• TUC backs Tobin tax to pay for bank bailouts

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  • Unions back Brown plan that could raise £30bn a year • PM undeterred by bank chiefs and US opposition The TUC is today throwing its weight behind Gordon Browns plans for a levy on financial institutions , proposing a tax on UK banks to spare the country from tax increases and public spending cuts. With ...
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• Letters: The Suns Afghan war on Brown

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Just as victims of crime and their relatives such as Sarah Payne are perhaps not the best qualified in a democratic society, to formulate policy on crime, equally so the recently bereaved mothers and wives of soldiers are also not best qualified to influence Britains defence policy ( Report , 10 November). The ...
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• Gordon Brown and Afghanistan: The hardest call of all

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Gordon Brown can be blamed for many things about the way he has run the war in Afghanistan: not having a proper strategy, failing to communicate, failing to earn the respect of his senior generals or to anticipate a critical demand for helicopters or vehicles. But what he should not be attacked for is trying to talk ...
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• 2010 NBA All-Star Ballot Announced

  
  Back Porch FanHouse — Authority: 172
  by Chris Tomasson Filed under: Celtics , Clippers , Grizzlies , Lakers , Pistons , Rockets , Suns , Timberwolves , NBA All-Star Game I wrote in September that perhaps there would be no worthy center to start for the West in the All-Star Game. But this isnt the way I want to see that solved. Do it on ...
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• In remembrance

  
  Ertblog — Authority: 91
  Its a sobering thought that tomorrow is the very first Armistice Day without a single survivor of the Great War alive in Britain.  The last link with that brutal conflict has been lost. The collective memory of millions of lost and shattered lives has passed into history.  Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday were ...
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• Gordon Brown says sorry to mother in condolence letter row

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  • Contrite PM alludes to sadness of losing of his own child • Parent of dead soldier denies Sun put her up to attack Gordon Brown invoked the memory of the death of his daughter in a desperate bid to convince his critics today that he understood the grief of families whose sons have died in action in Afghanistan. ...
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• Why is Timothy Geithner Rejecting Legislative Policy?

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 768
  Treasury Secretary Geithner has the presidents ear (photo from Downing Street) Over the weekend, the G-20 held a summit on the financial crisis, and several nations put forward the idea of a “Tobin tax,” a fractional tax on international financial transactions, to help pay for economic recovery and future bank ...
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• I think Im having a nervous breakdown!

  
  Clairwil — Authority: 449
  Hello, Im not actually all that unhappy, in fact Im quite perky but some very strange things have been happening over the last few days. I flick on the telly and find the death penalty has be reinstated and Garry Glitter has a fatal appointment with the noose. The last time I was that shocked was when I absent ...
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• Gordon Brown warned: axing childcare vouchers will cost Labour seats

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Former ministers say plan would undo one of partys landmark achievements Nine former cabinet ministers today rounded on Gordon Browns plans to cut childcare, warning the prime minister that he is threatening marginal Labour seats in the runup to the election by axing popular support for hard-working parents. The ...
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• MPs expenses: watchdog fails to back plans to clean up sleaze

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  Professor Sir Ian Kennedy the head of the new watchdog charged with cleaning up Parliament has refused to publicly endorse the recommendations of an independent inquiry.
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• I feel for Brown. But he should have left the letter-writing to the Queen | Simon Jenkins

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Despite the hounding of the prime minister over his condolence letter, such acts of sympathy are best left to heads of state The hounding of the prime minister over the Janes affair has been grossly unfair. The widely publicised letter to the mother of a dead soldier was clearly sincere. Its publicised failings ...
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• Luol Deng’s push for 2010 Most Improved Player

  
  Dime Magazine (www.dimemag.com) : Daily NBA News, NBA Trades, NBA Rumors, Basketball Videos, Sneakers — Authority: 668
  It’s too easy to start rolling out predictions and watch lists two weeks into the season. Unlike football, where two weeks means you’ve only played two games, two weeks of the NBA translates to almost 10 games, a good enough sample for most to gauge how a guy is going to play for the next [...]
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• NYT > World: British Premier Tries to Console, Lands in Mud

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 469
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . Gordon Brown, who has an uncanny ability to wrest political humiliation from good intention, has been drawn into an embarrassing dialogue with the distraught mother of a slain British soldier.
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• British Premier Tries to Console, Lands in Mud

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  Gordon Brown, who has an uncanny ability to wrest political humiliation from good intention, has been drawn into an embarrassing dialogue with the distraught mother of a slain British soldier.
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• The cast and crew of Medium share their impressions of the real Allison DuBois

  
  Medium Dreams — Authority: 132
  CBS has shot a series of videos about the real Allison DuBois that I’m going to be sharing on the site. In this one, we hear what the people on the show really think of the real-life psychic. The general consensus: she’s creepy. Okay, so they don’t actually say that, but as Patricia Arquette points out, a ...
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• The Whole of Afghanistan Is Not Worth One Drop of British Blood, Says Nick Griffin

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 650
  “The entire country of Afghanistan is not worth one drop of British blood. Britain has no business in that country; the war was based on a lie and we need to get our troops out as quickly as possible before any more are killed,” said Nick Griffin MEP. Speaking to BNP News after attending the heartbreaking Wootton ...
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• Suns political editor urged softer line on Browns misspelt letter

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  The Suns new political editor is said to have remonstrated with his editors on Sunday over whether to go hard on the prime ministers misspelt letter to the grieving mother of a soldier killed in Afghanistan. Tom Newton Dunn is only two weeks into the job but he already knew the prime minister had bad handwriting and ...
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• Edmund Fitzgerald Wreck Remembered 34 Years Later

  
  Blippitt.com — Authority: 584
  It was on this date 34 years ago, on November 10, 1975, that the SS Edmund Fitzgerald (A.K.A. "Mighty Fritz") wrecked and sank during a storm while on Lake Superior. Launched on June 8, 1958, the Edmund Fitzgerald was the biggest ship on the Great Lakes for the next 13 years. The big ship went down with all hands, 29 ...
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• Laying it in with a trowel

  
  Not a sheep — Authority: 148
  Nick Robinson as usual decides to cover a major story from a Labour supportive angle: "Dressed in a dark suit and sombre tie, his voice deeper and more gravelly than usual - suggesting hed had even less sleep than usual - and with damp eyes occasionally glistening in the camera lights, Gordon Brown sought to limit ...
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