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Spectator 7 hours ago (via spectator.co.uk)
At 2pm today in Sennen Parish Church, a mile from Land's End, flowers will be laid on the grave of a remarkable woman, and there will be a fly-past, hinting at what the commemoration is for. We are very familiar...
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CentreRight 2 days ago (via conservativehome.blogs.com)
Plans to make it easier for English local authorities to abolish outdated by-laws, and create new ones, will be outlined later by the government.
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BBCPolitics 3 days ago (via bbc.co.uk)
The idea that the best way to deal with amazingly profitable and slightly addictive substances is to let the most thieving and murderous people in our country sell them, and kill anyone who’d mention this to the regulators, also doesn’t strike me as top notch. Sadly, it was also one of the lines
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TimWorstall on 26th Aug 2010 (via timworstall.com)
I believe the dignity of parents, donors and the unborn would be threatened by introducing marketplace values. And without marketplace values there won’t be those unborn to have their dignity threatened. When are we English going to get over this distaste for “trade”?
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TimWorstall on 26th Aug 2010 (via timworstall.com)
Action against UPS at 154 countriesLaborWorld interviewed Turkey's Road Transport Union's (TÜMTİS) President Kenan Öztürk about resistance against UPS as well as other important issues that are recently on the political agenda of Turkey (abridged English version).KAZIM ŞAHİN kazimsahin@emekdunyasi.netIt has been more than 100 days of resistance against the giant tr...
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OrganizedRage on 26th Aug 2010 (via organizedrage.com)
The former US president arrives in Pyongyang in a private visit to secure the release of Aijalon Mahli Gomes, an English teacher in Seoul imprisoned for entering the reclusive state
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FT on 25th Aug 2010 (via ft.com)