David Cameron will today vow to emulate Margaret Thatcher by facing down vested interests - such as militant unions - if he becomes Prime Minister.
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The Tories seize on strikes by BA and railway workers to claim Britain is facing a "spring of discontent" because of Labour.
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WELCOME to Scotland on Sunday's online feature, Question of the Week.
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Scotsman 17 hours ago (via news.scotsman.com)
All globalisation, removal of borders, free movment and free market does is result in the homogenisation of peoples. Fit in with the new “global culture” (as Brown was talking about today) or we’ll exclude and sanction you. Language, traditions, tribe and beliefs are replaced by soap-operas, blue jeans, McDonald’s and billboards featuring airbrushed models. If that’s ...
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Someone who actually knows what they’re talking about says: Sorry Richard, but while I don’t agree with Tim Worstall on much stuff – particularly his hatred of the European project, and greater backing of tax evasion than I would support – I have never, ever, ever read an argument of yours that managed
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Yes, it’s Our Dennis: There is a deeper rightwing revisionism at play. Stalin’s crimes are being elevated to a par with the exterminations of Jews by those who want to banalise or relativise the Holocaust and reduce its historical centrality to just another example of wartime mass murders. Stalin’s famines of the
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Despite the various clashes, and very different views on the political situation locally, I wanted to congratulate Nich Starling on his victory in the Taverham North by-election yesterday. It was a solid win and on a decent size swing too - he should be proud of that achievement. The ward, which currently is in Chloe Smith's Norwich North seat, is traditionally a very safe Conservative area a...
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An underestimation of the expected surge in emissions from oil-based fossil fuels could undermine the EU's climate goals, the European Biodiesel Board (EBB) warned yesterday (18 March).
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Bulgaria's parliament voted on Thursday (18 March) to tighten a law that effectively banned cultivation of genetically-modified (GM) crops for scientific and commercial reasons in response to public fears.
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