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That comment is likely to receive angry responses, but I think it's a good point. Unless backed up with "real" action, web and Twitter campaigns don't seem to be worth a lot (see my earlier comment). On the other hard I suppose they don't do any harm. I think Avaaz petitions are often tak...

I wonder if this will be the fastest ever growing petition. And this mass tapping of keyboards will achieve what, exactly? That comment is likely to receive angry responses, but I think it's a good point. Unless backed up with "real" action, web and Twitter campaigns don't seem to be wort...

If he had been honest about his sexuality and his partner he could have legitimately claimed even more for a second home. He hasn't defrauded anyone except himself. That excuse sounds like a variation of: "Yes I know I flipped my house, but I could have claimed more on my travel and groceries,...

Do you REALLY that that most blog comments are worth anything whatsoever? The Web is becoming one big pool of ill informed shite. The governments must LOVE it ... we spend all our time moaning about things to each other online instead of doing anything real such as taking to the streets, writing a ...

Things seem to be hotting up! :-( Theres the usual loopies who believe it was the CIA... Then again, theres the usual loopies who believe the world is always obvious and black and white. (lusitania, Reichstag fire,gulf of tonkin, operation gladio etc etc ad infinitum) Who knows who did it, but its ...

Ministers have ordered a review of looming global shortages of resources, from fish and timber to water and precious metals, amid mounting concern that the problem could hit every sector of the economy. The study has been commissioned following sharp rises in many commodity prices on the world mark...

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JonB wrote:As an aside, John Major was the first ex PM not to take a peerage.

Didn't Churchill decline a peerage too?

Odd how no one since Thatcher has gone for a peerage - Major, Blair or Brown.

And yet has any PM in history ever made as many peers as Tony Blair? Probably not.

The world would be a much happier place if the bad smell that is the state of Israel could be wiped from the face of the Earth. Fair enough to put forward an argument criticising the existence of Israel (it's a mostly free cyberspace) but phrases like "bad smell" and "wiped from the ...

Excellent! I was running a coconut shy earlier on today and the temptation to say "Pick on one and pretend it's a banker or a politician of your choice" was overwhelming. But I had to shutupski because I was within earshot of our local councillor, a very nice chap from the Green Party :D ...

Things seem to be hotting up! :-( North Korea v South Korea: Fools rush in Both North and South Korea have begun preparations for war in a week where relations between the two countries broke down to the worst they have been since the Korean War of 1950-53. The latest confrontation came about when a...

It's only for the occasional flight in a "heritage capacity". I wonder if, one day, this will be the fate of most aircraft?

It's no surprise that the Tory right love David Laws, he's a multi-millionaire ex-JP Morgan banker and I believe was co-editor of The Orange Book (2004): "Arguing for free trade and lighter regulation, they proposed a greater role for the private sector in delivering public services" "...

Gone. But for how long?

RalphW wrote:Typical public school Tory - degree in business studies, 10 years in PR, for an old school firm, shoe in to a career in the house.

Except for the degree in business studies this could be a synthesis of Cameron-Osborne.

On the plus side the "long hot summer" bit sounds promising! On the brink of a new age of rage By Simon Schama Far be it for me to make a dicey situation dicier but you can’t smell the sulphur in the air right now and not think we might be on the threshold of an age of rage. The Spanish un...