NHHT - UNISON Strike Action - 15th March 2010Uploaded by unisoncomms. - Up-to-the minute news videos. via John Gray No carers leave? No flexi time? No Consultation? Love where I work? These important and highly valued family friendly policies are being taken away by a Chief Executive who could cover the entire cost with under a third of her own salary.
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SocialistUnity 3 days ago (via socialistunity.com)
The FT reports that European finance ministers yesterday postponed a vote on the EU's proposed AIFM Directive to regulate hedge funds and private equity firms after “a last-minute intervention” by Gordon Brown. Ministers are still at loggerheads over how to regulate funds and managers established outside the EU.
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OpenEurope 4 days ago (via openeurope.org.uk)
Yesterday, LDVideo brought you some of the media reportage from the party’s spring conference. Today, for those of you who want to re-live it all unexpurgated, here are Nick and Vince’s conference speeches in full … First, here’s Nick: (Also available on YouTube here). And here’s the 3-minute video which introduced Nick: (Also available on YouTube here). And finally, ...
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 15th Mar 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)
I promised to explain why I did not go by train to Manchester. My local station is a twenty five minute or so walk from home. The first available train to get me to London Waterloo leaves at 6.06 in the morning, and after a change of train
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JohnRedwood on 13th Mar 2010 (via johnredwoodsdiary.com)
Labour today renewed its call for voters to look again at Conservative policy, releasing a powerful critique of their crime choices. The professionally produced film controversially spends much of its 2 minute and twenty seconds focused on a man AGREEING with Tory crime policy. But Labour’s not going soft on Cameron, far from it, this
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LabourMatters on 9th Mar 2010 (via labourmatters.com)
Nearly half of all towns have at least five supermarkets within a ten-minute drive. We clearly have a highly competitive retail sustem. Thus everyone can stop droning on about the overweening power of the supermarkets. For you can’t have both: both a competitive system and also market or pricing power.
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TimWorstall on 8th Mar 2010 (via timworstall.com)
UK's internet service providers fire a broadside at last-minute changes to a law dealing with copyright piracy on the internet, saying they are 'dangerous'
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FT on 6th Mar 2010 (via traxfer.ft.com)
Here we go again, for the third time since 2003, Iraqis are heading to the ballots to choose their representatives. It’s a little different this time. In some aspects it's a little less "interesting"... In December 2005 we walked from home to the voting center (which also used to be where I went to school as a kid) to a soundtrack of mortars and gunfire. Indeed, that ten minute walk was wrapped
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IraqTheModel on 6th Mar 2010 (via iraqthemodel.blogspot.com)
I’ve just had this comment left that, after checking with Tyrone about it’s accuracy, deserves a post of it’s own… Groucho –V- Murphy The Groucho –V- Murphy case is now at an end as the Groucho Club pulled out at the very last minute. The Club issued a discontinuance notice on the 3rd November 2009. This move came
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SimO on 28th Feb 2010 (via sim-o.me.uk)