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• Lord Moynihan defends plan for London Olympic drug searches

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  • BOA chairman denies proposal would allow random searches • Athletes chief had called prospect utterly disastrous Plans to allow police to search athletes rooms at the 2012 London Olympics were defended last night by the chairman of the British Olympic Association. The Tory peer Lord Moynihan intends to ...
  11 hours ago

• Peter Mandelson transforms himself into courtier for jubilee jamboree

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Labour MPs returned with one question on their minds: which is their favourite Miliband brother? Is it the one who looks like the manager of an upmarket restaurant (Ed)? Or the one who looks like Gavin from Gavin and Stacey (David)? Could there be a mystery third Miliband brother, possibly Gummo Miliband, who left the ...
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• MOD should slash top brass officers to fund frontline troops

  
  Deadline Press & Picture Agency — Authority: 145
  By SHAUN MILNE A former Government minister is calling on the MoD to axe its senior military commanders by at least half to free up millions of pounds for front-line troops and their families. Written answers to a series of Parliamentary Questions in the House of Lords reveal that a salary pot of £6.762 million ...
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• In the next decade, I hope for a new politics | Katharine Whitehorn

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  From a hung parliament to more experienced and older people in office, I can dream of better government, cant I? I wont dwell on what weve lost in the decade: any idea that the Labour party believes in public effort rather than private gain. No less than Tories have they swallowed the idea that the private has to be ...
  2 days ago

• Bishops claim £136,000 in expenses from House of Lords and £1.4million from Church of England

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 955
  Bishops who sit in the House of Lords are able to live both in London and their dioceses for free under a unique arrangement that saw them claim more than £1.5million in expenses last year.
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• Resisting temptation

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 955
  Telegraph View: A system whereby parliamentary allowances are routinely claimed by people who have no other housing costs will strike many as being unfair.
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• Albums I Missed in 2009

  
  Metal Excess — Authority: 124
  As in 2008, there were a number of albums released this year that I didn’t get around buying. Money may come from trees but it surely doesn’t grow on them! Some of these albums I’ve been aware of for awhile, others I just recently found out about. Oh well, here’s some 2009 releases I plan on picking up ...
  5 days ago

• Ryo Vie’s Top 10 of 2009

  
  www.hardrockhideout.com — Authority: 140
  This week at Hard Rock Hideout we give you not one, but three Top 10 lists for 2009. We will post one each day this week, as well as our top 10 of the decade later this week. Ryo Vie joined HRH’s merry team of rockers this year, and has reviewed some fantastic music for [...]
  1 week ago

• NRI body to honour 7 for community service

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  By Arun KumarWashington, Dec 28 (IANS) The Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO) will recognise seven persons with its community service awards at a convention in New Delhi Jan 6 just before Pravas Bharatiya Divas 2010.The annual awards to recognize and honour those NRIs and PIOs who have provided ...
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• Police hand over more files on expenses

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Two more sets of evidence against politicians given to Crown Prosecution Service Scotland Yard handed two more files of evidence against politicians suspected of abusing their expenses to prosecutors today. Officials at the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) are now examining six cases of alleged wrongdoing by MPs and ...
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• Let us abolish the House of Lords

  
  Robert Kyriakides's Weblog — Authority: 127
  There are many things wrong with the British Constitution. The constituencies for the house of commons are not even of equal approximate size, there is an unfairness and imbalance which enables the Scots and the Labour Party to have an unfair and unelected advantage over the other parties, the system is unfair to ...
  2 weeks ago

• How valuable are peers?

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 955
  Telegraph View: The House of Lords is a vital resource, and its members need to be fairly rewarded
  2 weeks ago

• Taxing bankers bonuses does not breach their human rights

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Committee of MPs and peers concludes that new tax is compatible with European law When it emerged that Alistair Darling was planning to announce a tax on bankers bonuses in the pre-budget report, some figures in the City seemed to think that their human rights were about to be infringed. Bill Dodwell, the head of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Letters: Royal mail

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Your front-page article (17 December) is far too critical of Prince Charless letter writing. Surely its a positive thing that he continues to engage in the epistolary art, and if the contents of his letters are a little quirky, then that too is the traditional prerogative of the letter writer. Keith Flett ...
  2 weeks ago

• From the archive: Hanging ends by order of the Lords

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Originally published on 19 December 1969 There will be no more hanging in Britain. The Lords last night followed the Commons in passing a motion to perpetuate the Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act, and a cheer that was almost a shout rose from the abolitionists. Their lordships do not cheer easily, and there ...
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• Senators, Thanks For Reminding Us Why We Don’t Like You

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 496
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• Yesterday in parliament

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  16 December session Copenhagen World leaders are facing an "uphill task" to reach agreement on tackling climate change in Copenhagen, the government insisted. Harriet Harman, the leader of the Commons, standing in for the prime minister, who is at the talks, said legally binding targets were required to combat ...
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• From the archive: Conservative attacks on the Crown

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Originally published on 17 December 1910 The Peers friends do not grow in grace under defeat. The ant-hill being kicked over, the ants run to and fro, butting each other and improvising the wildest rival plans for putting the hill together again. Perhaps the most graceless of these improvisations was presented in ...
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• Yesterday in parliament

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  15 December session Defence Bob Ainsworth, the defence secretary, announced swingeing cuts in military personnel and equipment to fund a £900m boost for the Afghanistan campaign. RAF Cottesmore in Rutland will close and two Royal Navy vessels will be withdrawn. The number of civilians working in the MoD will be ...
  2 weeks ago

• A peers guide to affordable London hotels

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Members of the House of Lords can only claim £140 a night for accommodation. What are their best options? In a debate in the House of Lords, peers have expressed outrage at plans to review their expenses. Lord Palmer, a cross-bencher, was horrified by plans to cap hotel bills at £140 a night – which, he said, ...
  3 weeks ago

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