The man behind political website Guido Fawkes has told how he avoiding legal action by using foreign web hosts.
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Initial trials suggest millions of pounds could be saved by using "nudge" theories to encourage people to pay taxes and fines, UK officials say.
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In order to try and stop Israel from doing what it needs to do for survival by preventing Iran from obtaining nukes, the Obama administration announces new sanctions against Iranian financial institutions! The response to this brand of US foreign policy used as an attempt to combat an Islamist regime bent on the total destruction of Israel can be accomplished using these four article headlines: Al...
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For some time TPC and others have been asking why voters of the Jewish faith have historically had a blind attachment to the Democrat Party! In the context of this article, when I say historically I am using the period of time since Barack Obama ran against Hillary Clinton for the Democrat nomination until today. Looking back at 2008 the fact that college students, engaged in the presidential elec...
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House of Lords reform is one of those subjects that make most people’s eyes glaze over. But it is going to dominate the next parliamentary session. The Queen’s Speech will include a bill for elections in 2015 for 20 per cent of the seats in the Lords using a ‘Proportional Representation’ voting system. This bill will take an age to get through the Commons, where it has to s...
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1. My book manuscript is finished (for better or worse), so I soon hope to be using the space that Galrahn has graciously granted for something more than self-promotion. In particular, I plan to return to the idea of writing a series on seapower in fiction. However, also expect some more book reviews, mostly associated with recent work on the airpower manuscript. 2. Until then, self-promotio...
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A trio of resources for your weekend’s delectation: Electoral timetable for May’s elections: I’ve recently updated my May 2012 election timetable post with extra details Liberal Democrat peers on Twitter: having commented adversely in the past on the lack of communications from many of them, I’ve been hunting out how many are using Twitter. You
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 3rd Feb 2012 (via libdemvoice.org)
‘We will insist that the EU institutions — the court, the commission — that they work for all 27 nations of the EU.’ So said David Cameron, back in December, suggesting that he'd block Europe's ‘fiscal compact’ countries from using EU-wide institutions to enforce their, er, fiscal compact. But now this component of his ‘veto’ appears to hav...
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Spectator on 30th Jan 2012 (via spectator.co.uk)
Foreign Secretary William Hague has said he is not currently planning on standing in the way of the new eurozone fiscal pact countries using EU institutions.
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BBCPolitics on 30th Jan 2012 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
Mr Osborne’s rhetoric on using the IMF to prop the Euro has firmed up more. He has always said the IMF should not lend money to prop up a currency, only a country in trouble. I interpret this to mean the IMF should not lend to any Euro member, as that would in
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