Where else could you get a minute’s religious devotion and a show in which contestants cook their own takeaways?
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Spiked on 20th Aug 2010 (via spiked-online.com)
Sonia Gandhi's habit of secrecy about her personal life led to confusion as to the reason for the last minute cancellation of her meeting with David Cameron, visiting UK prime minister.
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FT on 30th Jul 2010 (via ft.com)
Councils, police and other public bodies are demanding access to people's private telephone and email records at a rate of once a minute after a rise in snooping applications.
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Telegraph on 28th Jul 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Haven't they done well to get a whole series called 'How To Beat Tough Times' completed and on air in such a short time considering that three months ago they were predicting a massive upturn any minute? Next up: the BBC discovers homelessness
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HouseofDumb on 19th Jul 2010 (via houseofdumb.blogspot.com)
It must be one of the BBC's cheapest news shows. Filmed with just two cameras, in an all black studio - evoking the Charlie Rose show from the USA - the BBC's Straight Talk is a thirty minute interrogation of...
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CentreRight on 14th Jul 2010 (via conservativehome.blogs.com)
Yes, we like this, we do. We can add that the best argument against crowd-sourcing is a five-minute browse of the Treasury’s Spending Challenge website, which has degenerated into a SpEak You’re bRanes moron-fest of calls to cut benefits and overseas aid. The tragedy is, though, that there is a good reason why the public should be
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TimWorstall on 14th Jul 2010 (via timworstall.com)
You know how when you have a deadline, you tend to put things off until the last minute, then run around like a blue-arsed fly trying to get everything done in time? Well, that was this week at Holyrood, the last before the Summer Recess. Indeed, there was so much to get through that they had to spend Wednesday morning in the Chamber in addition to the customary Wednesday afternoon and all of Thur...
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JArthurMacNumpty on 4th Jul 2010 (via macnumpty.blogspot.com)
Lib Dems are necessarily an introspective bunch, given to minute analysis of the implications of our own policies in order to ensure they’re entirely fair & liberal. As a consequence, the compromises involved in the coalition agreement (and the practices thereof) have come as something of a brutal shock to many party members – most
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 3rd Jul 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)
In real terms spending is actually projected to carry on going up—from £637 billion in 2010-11 to £711 billion in 2015-16—but that still represents the biggest squeeze since World War II. Government departments that are unprotected (all bar the giant health budget and the minuscule amount spent on overseas aid) can
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TimWorstall on 23rd Jun 2010 (via timworstall.com)
Ben Lieberman, senior analyst of energy and environmental policy for The Heritage Foundation has an interesting piece in the New York Post that outlines the real cost of the 8 minute 'cap n' tax' part of President Obama's recent speech: President Obama has a solution to the Gulf oil spill: $7-a-gallon gas. That's a Harvard University study's estimate of the per-gallon...
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JOSHUAPUNDIT on 18th Jun 2010 (via joshuapundit.blogspot.com)