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Four due in court over expenses
BBC Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:24:37 GMT
Three Labour MPs and a Tory peer are due in court later to face charges in relation to their expenses claims.
MPs query non-political ministers
BBC Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:09:22 GMT
Ennobling people from outside Parliament to make them ministers should be "exceptional", cross-party MPs say.
Cartoon : STASHCROFT
WORLDPRESSNETWORK 10 Mar 2010
By cartoonist Leon Kuhn whose work can also be seen on his own website http://www.leonkuhn.org.uk where postcards of some of his cartoons can be ordered.

See Leon Kuhn's page on "SpideredNews | Politics" at http://www.spiderednews.com/LeonKuhn.htm
Economic storm 'not over' - Brown
BBC Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:00:27 GMT
Gordon Brown is expected to say he has guided the economy through a "storm" and is best-placed to secure its recovery.
UK seeks Afghan political drive
BBC Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:04:10 GMT
Foreign Secretary David Miliband is to urge the Afghan president to seek a political solution to the conflict with the Taliban.
Nick Robinson
BBC Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:30:32 GMT
Why the parties' biggest donors are treated differently
Labour peer to end non dom status
BBC Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:28:38 GMT
Labour peer and donor Lord Paul has said he will end his controversial "non dom" status from the next tax year.
Paisley jnr picked to fight seat
BBC Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:47:18 GMT
Ian Paisley jnr will contest his father's North Antrim seat in the general election after being selected by his party.
Bush asks Tories to save NI deal
BBC Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:30:39 GMT
Ex-US President George W Bush asks David Cameron to try to get the UUP to back devolution of justice and policing.
One Tower Hamlets – or two? - Labour councillors join Respect
WORDPRESS Mon, 08 Mar 2010
“On Friday outside the House of Commons jack-booted skinhead thugs of the English Defence League paraded with banners saying ‘Close the East London Mosque Now’ and ‘Ban the Burkha’,” said George Galloway at a press conference in Brick Lane yesterday. “This is where the witch-hunt launched by Jim Fitzpatrick last summer against Muslim weddings was bound to end up.

....With the Tories the gap between Labour and the Tories narrowing in the polls, there is every prospect now of a hung parliament. This could make Tower Hamlets the decisive influence over the next government.

Very senior Labour figures have approached George Galloway to find out our attitude towards a potential minority Labour government.  This is our response.

If there is a hung parliament and George Galloway and Abjol Miah are returned as Tower Hamlets MPs, Respect will have three minimum conditions on which we will support a Labour-led government:

A MASSIVE COUNCIL HOUSE BUILDING PROGRAMME TO ADDRESS THE HOUSING SCANDAL IN THIS BOROUGH AND ACROSS THE COUNTRY

THE RAPID WITHDRAWAL OF BRITISH TROOPS FROM ALL ILLEGAL AND POINTLESS WARS

THE RADICAL DEMOCRATISATION OF OUR CONSTITUTION WITH A FAIR VOTING SYSTEM, ABOLITION OF THE APPOINTED HOUSE OF LORDS AND CLEANING UP PARLIAMENT – NO MORE SECOND HOMES FIDDLES.
Cartoon : STASHCROFT
WORLDPRESSNETWORK 10 Mar 2010
By cartoonist Leon Kuhn whose work can also be seen on his own website http://www.leonkuhn.org.uk where postcards of some of his cartoons can be ordered.

See Leon Kuhn's page on "SpideredNews | Politics" at http://www.spiderednews.com/LeonKuhn.htm
Leaving the house: MPs' diaries
BBC Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:26:01 GMT
MPs retiring at the election reflect on their careers in Parliament and their remaining days in Westminster.
Tebbit says Lord Ashcroft should have admitted tax status years ago
GUARDIAN Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:07:16 GMT
Formal complaint alleging 'pecuniary advantage by deception' sent to Scotland Yard's specialist crime directorate Lord Ashcroft should have admitted that he was a non-dom many years ago because keeping the matter secret suggested that he had done something wrong, Lord Tebbit said today. The former Conservative party chairman told the Guardian that although Lord Ashcroft had not broken any law, he had forgotten that what matters most in politics is public perception. Many Tories have criticised Ashcroft strongly in private, but Tebbit is one of the few senior figures in the party to speak out in public. He made his comments as it emerged that Scotland Yard has been asked to launch an investigation into Ashcroft, the Conservative deputy chairman, for allegedly profiting from a peerage obtained through a lie. Tebbit said that Ashcroft had not committed any offence, and in paying the minimum amount of tax he was legally obliged to pay he was doing "what we all do, if we have any sense". But that what mattered politically was that Ashcroft had not asked himself "the Daily Mail question". He went on: "Many, many years ago this was explained to me by Harry Legge-Bourke, the then chairman of the 1922 committee, when he said of a certain course of action that was being discussed: 'If you would not be happy to read that in tomorrow's Daily Mail, then don't do it.' That Daily Mail test is the one that matters above all in politics." Tebbit said he was not in a position to say whether he thought that Ashcroft had complied with the undertakings he had given William Hague, or whether Hague and David Cameron had handled the matter properly, because he did know the details of the conversations that had taken place. But he said that Ashcroft should have been more open: "The prurient always gain a kick from the prurience if what they see is seen through a not-quite-closed curtain. Probably it would have been better for Lord Ashcroft to have said what we now know some years ago." Ashcroft was sharply criticised in several newspapers over the weekend. The News of the World, owned by Rupert Murdoch and previously edited by Cameron's communications chief, Andy Coulson, appeared to urge the leadership to drop Ashcroft as deputy chairman. "A very rich bloke is managing to sort his own taxes very quickly, thank you, while the rest of us have to pay through the nose to bail out his banker pals. Cameron, and particularly Hague, have had chance after chance to lance this boil of a problem, but they didn't. Now it has come back to haunt them." In a separate development, the Guardian can reveal that a formal complaint was sent last week to Cressida Dick, the head of the Metropolitan police's specialist crime directorate. It claims that the Tory peer has gained "a pecuniary advantage by deception" by failing to keep promises that he would become a permanent resident in Britain. Jim Miller, a writer from Leominister, Herefordshire, said he made the complaint because Ashcroft had deceived the British people and profited from that deceit. "I've read what's happened and I'm not happy about it. I wanted to put it before the police so they could decide whether an offence has been committed," he said. In a letter to Dick on Wednesday, Miller said that a letter sent by Ashcroft to Hague when Hague was opposition leader gave a "clear and unequivocal assurance" that he would take up residency in Britain. "Lord Ashcroft did not take up permanent residence in the UK in 2000, and 10 years later he has still not taken up permanent residence in this country; he has done this in order to benefit from non-domicile tax status. He deceived the leader of the Opposition, and through him deceived the honours scrutiny committee, the prime minister's office, and the press and general public," Miller wrote. A spokesman for Scotland Yard said today that it had not yet officially received the complaint. Today Ashcroft's spokesman did not respond to messages left by....
Clinton calls leaders over deal
BBC Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:18:18 GMT
Hillary Clinton conducts telephone diplomacy with NI politicians ahead of Tuesday's vote on the devolution of justice.
Brown's Afghan pledge questioned
BBC Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:56:15 GMT
The Conservatives query Gordon Brown's announcement of 200 new patrol vehicles for British troops in Afghanistan.
Tony Blair's memoirs to be published in September
GUARDIAN Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:38:56 GMT
Tony Blair: The Journey aims to 'describe the human as much as the political dimensions of life as prime minister' Tony Blair's memoirs, signed for an estimated £5m almost three years ago, will be published in September, Random House announced today, promising a "frank, open and revealing" account of the former prime minister's life. In a statement issued by the publisher, Blair said he had "really enjoyed" writing the book. "I have tried to write a book which describes the human as much as the political dimensions of life as prime minister," he said. "Though necessarily retrospective, it is an attempt to inform and shape current and future thinking as much as an historical account of the past. Most of all I want readers to have as much pleasure reading it as I had writing it." Blair will promote his memoirs with a national and international tour on its release in September, four months after the expected date of the next general election in May. The autobiography, to be called Tony Blair: The Journey, will be published by Random House Group imprint Hutchinson, priced at £25, with an audiobook read by Blair himself, and an ebook edition, out at the same time, along with American and Canadian editions from Knopf and Knopf Canada. Gail Rebuck, who heads up Random House and who is also married to Blair's former pollster Lord Gould, said the book would "break new ground in prime ministerial memoirs just as Blair himself broke the mould of British politics". She called the book "frank, open [and] revealing", and said it was "written in an intimate and accessible style". "As an account of the nature and uses of power, it will have a readership that extends well beyond politics, to all those who want to understand the challenge of leadership in today's world," she added. Blair refused to disclose the advance he received from Random House when he signed a deal with the publisher for the memoirs in 2007, but publishing experts said at the time that it could be worth as much as £5m. The former prime minister is also set for significant royalty earnings: Margaret Thatcher's memoir The Path to Power sold an estimated 500,000 copies in hardback when it was published in 1995, according to the Bookseller, while John Major's autobiography sold over 200,000 hardbacks for an advance of around £1m. Whether the timing is right for Blair's autobiography remains to be seen, however. According to a select committee report into government memoirs in 2006, "it is in the financial interest of memoir writers to get their accounts published as soon as possible, and to ensure that they are titillating". The select committee said it was told by Sir Simon Jenkins "that he could remember very well a certain chancellor of the exchequer, who shall be nameless, inquiring as to what his memoirs might be worth and the answer was: 'A quarter of a million tomorrow, £100,000 next week, £10,000 two months from now. How fast can you write them?' It was as simple as that - because there were going to be no sales two months from then. It is show business." Politics Tony Blair Politics past Alison Flood guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
James Bulger killer: Gordon Brown defends refusal to reveal new offence
GUARDIAN Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:51:41 GMT
Prime minister says he understands 'public outrage' after jailing of Jon Venables but justice system must run its course The prime minister, Gordon Brown, today defended the government's refusal to disclose why Jon Venables, who was convicted at the age of 10 of the murder of two-year-old James Bulger, has been sent back to prison for unspecified breaches of the conditions of his release on a life licence. Brown said he understood "public outrage" but insisted it was impossible for the specific details of the breach to be revealed. "What we are talking about is a totally abhorrent crime that happened some years ago but that still, rightly so, disgusts and offends the British people and I can rightly understand the public outrage, even after so many years," he told reporters at a Downing Street press conference. "But the public know that we cannot comment on individual cases that are going through the system and I think the justice secretary explained the particular constraints in this case. "But I want to be absolutely clear that what matters here is that the justice system is allowed to run its course and that justice is done, whatever wrongs are committed. "The justice system must be allowed to take the action that is necessary. That is what people would expect and that is what is going to happen." The prime minister's intervention came after the justice secretary, Jack Straw, was last night warned by lawyers and probation officers that it is inevitable that Venables's new identity will become known while he is back behind bars. Straw yesterday strongly defended his decision not to reveal why Venables, now 27, has been recalled to prison more than eight years after he and his co-defendant, Robert Thompson, were released on life licences from local authority secure units. "I know there's an intense public interest in why he has been recalled," said Straw. "I would like to give that information but I'm sorry that for good reasons I can't, and that's in the public interest." Only 89 offenders released on a life licence were returned to jail last year after breaching the terms of their licence. Only a handful of justice ministry officials, senior probation officers and prison governors currently know Venables's new identity. But as his trial solicitor, Laurence Lee, pointed out: "Every prison in the country will be looking round to see whether or not there's a 27-year-old who looks a little bit like that boy." Lee said it was too early to condemn Venables until it was known what he had done to justify the recall to jail. He said a breach of his ban on going to Merseyside or something similar might be regarded as minor technical infringements that would not mean spending long in prison. Harry Fletcher of Napo, the probation union, also said he believed Venables's new identity would be quickly compromised inside prison. Justice ministry officials said yesterday that disclosing the details of the breaches involved could prejudice the forthcoming parole board hearing to decide whether the recall is justified. It is also thought that disclosing the nature of the breach could jeopardise the anonymity order in force since Venables and Thompson were released in 2001. Bulger's family have not been told the details. Two-year-old James Bulger was abducted from a Bootle shopping centre and murdered by Thompson and Venables in 1993. His body was found was found by children playing on a railway line. The grainy CCTV footage of his abduction has lost none of its emotional power to shock. The killers were released in 2001 on life licences which included conditions such as not contacting each other or going near Merseyside. Both were given new names and a worldwide anonymity order was granted to protect their identity. James Bulger murder Crime Criminal justice Gordon Brown Jack Straw Alan Travis Haroon Siddique guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions...
Obama wants swift vote on healthcare
PRESSTV Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:37:33 GMT
US President Barack Obama has called for a speedy Congressional vote on his contentious healthcare overhaul bid despite obstacles for the bill's passage.
Parliament's last chance to reform| Meg Russell
GUARDIAN Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:00:00 GMT
The Wright committee debate should be taken seriously by MPs, so the Commons can make a fresh start before the election Today the House of Commons debates the recommendations of the Wright committee. These offer a real opportunity to reinvigorate parliament, and start restoring its reputation. In the closing weeks of this parliament, the Commons can leave a good legacy for its successor. The reforms would also fulfil one of Gordon Brown's very first pledges as prime minister: to strengthen parliament and return it to the centre of political life. Brown set up the select committee on reform of the House of Commons (chaired by Tony Wright) following the MPs' expenses crisis. It was charged with considering three things: the way select committee members and chairs are chosen, giving MPs more control over the Commons agenda, and increasing public influence in parliament. The first of these has been a bit of a running sore. Way back in 2001, Labour whips sought to block two "unreliable" select committee chairs from getting back onto their committees. This exposed how party whips (both Labour and Conservative) acted as gatekeepers to these committees. The select committees are increasingly well respected, but this affair damaged their reputation. Worse still, the whole reputation of parliament came to suffer. Robin Cook, then leader of the Commons, sought to reform the system and wrest control from the whips, but his proposals were ironically defeated in the house itself. Whips on both sides "encouraged" MPs, in an ostensibly free vote, to leave the system as it was. This puzzled and disappointed reformers. The Wright committee proposals would finally sort this out. Select committee chairs would be elected in a secret ballot at the start of each parliament by the house itself, thus raising their status, and the status of their committees. It would democratise the system, and finally start building the "alternative career path" which many reformers have long sought: allowing MPs to pursue high-profile parliamentary careers, rather than just aspiring to executive office. Select committee members would be elected too, in secret ballots by party groups. The proposals on public involvement have largely now been dealt with, through new arrangements agreed last week for petitioning parliament. This leaves the other big issue: MPs' control over what they can debate. Again, a recent parliamentary fiasco demonstrates the need for this reform. During the expenses crisis some MPs moved a motion calling on Speaker Martin to resign. He was however forced to admit that the only way to debate this was if the government chose to do so. Even on this most fundamental matter of how the Commons ran itself, MPs were dependent on ministers to grant them debating time, which exposed their powerlessness in a pathetic way. Problems with MPs' lack of control over agenda are usually more mundane. For example, the Wright committee proposals themselves have awaited debate for weeks, reliant on a government motion. Initially it was touch-and-go whether government would make the time. Similarly ministers decide which topics MPs can discuss during topical or general debates, at times leaving them disappointed. But in a democratic parliament of grown-up politicians, MPs should be free to make these decisions for themselves. The Wright committee draws a key distinction between management of "backbench" and ministerial business. Government should have no part in scheduling backbench business (eg general debates, debates on procedural matters or select committee reports): this should be a matter for the house. They propose a new backbench business committee, elected by MPs, to do this. Ministerial business (most obviously, government bills) is different: here ministers and shadow ministers will always need to be involved. For this they recommend creation of a house business committee, involving both front and backbenchers. This would bring the Commons into..
Terror is 'not an election issue'
BBC Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:54:18 GMT
The government's terror watchdog has said the fight against terrorism should not become a party political issue in the general election.
US creates terror groups, ex-intelligence chief says
PRESSTV Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:29:00 GMT
Former head of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency Hamid Gol says the United States is seeking to create and train terrorist groups in the region.
US foreign policy 'dominated by military'
PRESSTV Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:50:20 GMT
US Department of Defense's top officer Admiral Mike Mullen says America's foreign affairs are dominated by military doctrines which need to be replaced by diplomacy.
Guardian Daily: Michael Foot (1913-2010); plus Bulger murderer back in jail
GUARDIAN Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:00:00 GMT
People from across the political spectrum have been paying tribute to the former Labour leader Michael Foot, who died yesterday aged 96. Michael White and Martin Kettle discuss the legacy of the man whose 1983 election manifesto was described as the "longest suicide note in history".
Galloway demands Labour sacks agent after islamophobic and racist comments
VOTEGEORGEGALLOWAY Wed, 03 Mar 2010
George Galloway has written to Labour's General Secretary Ray Collins, MP Jim Fitzpatrick and Labour candidate Rushanara Ali, demanding Tower Hamlets Labour Party election agent and council candidate Graham Taylor should be sacked and disciplinary action taken against him and other members. This follows Islamophobic and racist comments appearing on Taylor's Facebook.

Taylor attended a meeting on election arrangements at Tower Hamlets Town Hall with the chief executive Kevan Collins, chief legal officer Isabella Freeman and chief elections officer Louise Stamp, on Monday evening.

Before going to the meeting he put out the following message on his Facebook group - "Graham Taylor is off to that centre of Islamic fundamentalism - Tower Hamlets Town Hall". A number of his Facebook friends then responded, including former councillor and Labour's council candidate for Stepney ward Judith Gardner. Gardner wrote "Give em hell!". Another friend wrote the disgusting racist comment: "Bring some pork scratchings" and another "Pork!".

"This is a disgraceful example of the Islamophobia and racism now infecting parts of Tower Hamlets Labour Party," said an outraged George Galloway. "The comments were made just before the Dispatches programme on Monday, which a number of Labour members co-operated with and in some cases inspired. These comments should have no place anywhere, never mind in a party claiming its commitment to opposing racism and respect for people of faith.

"I am demanding that Taylor is sacked as Rushanara Ali's election agent and his nomination for council candidate withdrawn. He is clearly not a fit and proper person to hold office in the Labour Party. And former councillor Judith Gardner should also be stood down. I don't know if the other contributors are Labour Party members but, if they are, they also should be subject to action by the Labour Party, up to and including their expulsion."
Cartoon : Tories plan immediate assault on public sector
WORLDPRESSNETWORK 3 Mar 2010
By cartoonist Leon Kuhn whose work can also be seen on his own website http://www.leonkuhn.org.uk where postcards of some of his cartoons can be ordered.

See Leon Kuhn's page on "SpideredNews | Politics" at http://www.spiderednews.com/LeonKuhn.htm
Michael Foot, 1913-2010: adored even in defeat | Diane Abbott
GUARDIAN Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT
He led Labour to a disastrous rout and was wary of my 'Bennite' generation, yet Michael earned our loyalty and admiration Perhaps my enduring memory of Michael Foot is at 1983 Labour party conference. We had just gone down to catastrophic defeat, narrowly avoiding being beaten into third place by the SDP.
Ministers axe Legal Services Commission to wrest back control of legal aid budget
GUARDIAN Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:24:31 GMT
• Executive agency politicises legal aid, say critics • Chief executive Carolyn Regan resigns immediately The body in charge of the £2.1bn legal aid budget is to be abolished after 10 years , as part of radical changes to the way lower-income people access justice, ministers announced today. The Legal Services Commission, which distributes civil and criminal legal aid, will be replaced by an executive agency in a move to regain control of government spending on legal aid.
Michael Foot, 1913-2010: renaissance littérateur | Geoffrey Goodman
GUARDIAN Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:00:00 GMT
Never cut out for political intrigue, Foot's breadth of learning and facility with words made him a great writer and parliamentarian To describe the legacy of Michael Foot – whether as a politician, a biographer, a historian, but probably most of all as an outstanding journalist and writer – is effectively to chronicle the tapestry of 20th century British radicalism.
Harman attacks Hague on Ashcroft
BBC Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:14:30 GMT
Harriet Harman sparks Commons uproar as she accuses the Tories of misleading the country over Lord Ashcroft's tax status.
LIVE: Prime minister's questions
BBC Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:56:45 GMT
Watch all the action with key points, analysis and reaction as Harriet Harman stands in for Gordon Brown at PM's questions.
Tory poll lead remains in single figures
GUARDIAN Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:10:44 GMT
Latest polls, conducted before the latest revelations about Tory deputy chairman Lord Ashcroft, point towards a hung parliament A new wave of polls did little to boost the Tories' general election prospects today as the party's lead over Labour remained in single figures while its flagship plans for early cuts in public spending received the thumbs-up from just one in four voters. A ComRes survey for the Independent showed the Tory lead over Labour narrowing to five points in the past month. A YouGov survey for the Sun today gave the Tories a seven-point margin, well up on the weekend but still short of the double-digit lead David Cameron needs to be confident of a Commons majority. Both surveys were conducted before revelations about Tory peer Lord Ashcroft's tax status surfaced yesterday. A separate survey for PoliticsHome shows Conservative plans to reduce the £178bn deficit by making early spending cuts is causing jitters as 40% expressed concern that public services would be cut back too deeply as a result. Just 25% said they were worried that the deficit would not be tackled quickly enough. The Independent poll, which gives the Tories a five-point lead, was taken over the weekend, when Cameron admitted to the party's spring conference that the Conservatives faced a "real fight" to win power. While the findings give the Tories a bigger share of the popular vote, the poll rating suggests Labour would be returned to government with the most MPs under the first-past-the-post electoral system. This would leave Labour short of an outright majority, however, and so would be forced to strike deals with the smaller parties for support on controversial issues. Fears of a hung parliament sent sterling temporarily to a nine-month low against the dollar yesterday following another YouGov poll at the weekend suggesting the Tory lead was down to just two points. The Independent survey found that support for the Tories had gone down one point in the past month, to 37%, while that for Labour was up one on 32%. The Liberal Democrats were unchanged on 19%. The margin represents the Tories' smallest lead in the monthly ComRes survey since December 2008. John Curtice, professor of politics at Strathclyde University, suggested the figures would give Labour 294 seats, the Tories 277, the Liberal Democrats 46 and others 33. In such a scenario, Brown would be 32 seats short of an overall majority in a hung parliament but would almost certainly continue as premier. The poll reinforces the recent trend showing Labour gaining ground on the Tories as the election, expected on 6 May, approaches. The weekend YouGov survey, for the Sunday Times, showed the Tory lead down to just two points, with support of 37% compared with Labour's 35%. The YouGov survey for the Sun today, conducted after Cameron's weekend address, gave the Tories a seven-point margin, which was framed in the Tory supporting tabloid as a bounce for the Tory party leader. It found that Tory support had risen dramatically, to 39%, with Labour on 32% and the Lib Dems on 17%. Conservatives Opinion polls Labour Liberal Democrats General election 2010 Hélène Mulholland guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
Eurosceptic MEP faces reprimand
BBC Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:12:25 GMT
The Eurosceptic MEP Nigel Farage is expected to get told off by the head of the European Parliament over his tirade last week.
Lords rebuff Ashcroft probe call
BBC Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:32:39 GMT
The House of Lords appointments commission rejects calls for an investigation into the Tory peer Lord Ashcroft over his tax status.
Cartoon : Tories plan immediate assault on public sector
WORLDPRESSNETWORK 3 Mar 2010
By cartoonist Leon Kuhn whose work can also be seen on his own website http://www.leonkuhn.org.uk where postcards of some of his cartoons can be ordered.

See Leon Kuhn's page on "SpideredNews | Politics" at http://www.spiderednews.com/LeonKuhn.htm
Four quit Labour over shortlist
BBC Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:24:53 GMT
Four Labour councillors resign over claims a replacement for Don Touhig as the election candidate is being "parachuted" in.
Threat to 25,000 jobs in councils
BBC Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:42:19 GMT
At least 25,000 English council jobs will be at risk in the next three to five years, a BBC survey suggests.
An irresponsible shadow budget?
BBC Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:21:39 GMT
On Sunday 28 February Andrew Marr interviewed Shadow Chancellor George Osborne
Rumours 'chase each other madly'
BBC Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:59:17 GMT
On Sunday 28 February Andrew Marr interviewed the Welsh Secretary Peter Hain
Poll fears stalk Tory conference
BBC Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:13:19 GMT
Ross Hawkins reports from the Conservative Party's spring conference, as a poll in the Sunday Times shows the Tories' lead down to just two points.
More than two-thirds of new Tories are sceptical about climate change - Their Top ‘political villains’ : Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, George Galloway and Joseph Stalin
DAILYMAIL Sat, 27 Feb 2010
David Cameron’s ‘new’ Conservatives are deeply sceptical about global warming – and still adore Margaret Thatcher, according to a poll today.

Despite the party leader’s much-vaunted commitment to the environment, just 28 per cent of Tory candidates in winnable seats believe new laws are needed to tackle climate change.

The fascinating study conducted by ComRes on behalf of the New Statesman magazine also reveals that prospective MPs are deeply Eurosceptic, support tax cuts and want to see a strict cap on immigration.
..

Gordon Brown topped the list of ‘political villains’ on 28 per cent, followed by Tony Blair on 12 per cent, George Galloway and Joseph Stalin on five per cent and former Tory leader Ted Heath on four per cent.
Harman and ex-adversary reunited by Twitter hacker
BBC Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:43:46 GMT
Harriet Harman reveals that fake Twitter messages have been sent in her name, including one to a senior Conservative politician.
323 apply to see PM Iraq grilling
BBC Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:34:52 GMT
More than 300 people apply for seats at Gordon Brown's evidence to the Iraq Inquiry - but only one bereaved family is among them.
Electric car scheme secures £17m
BBC Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:24:13 GMT
London Mayor Boris Johnson secures £17m to fund thousands of electric car charge points across the capital.
Osborne to warn over debt threat
BBC Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:42:22 GMT
George Osborne will will warn about the threat from "Gordon Brown's debt" when he sets out his economic strategy later.
Binyam Mohamed torture ruling: the restored passages
GUARDIAN Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:49:29 GMT
Read the text removed from original judgment on role of MI5 in US torture of British resident, which can now be published
George Galloway MP : Israel must answer for Dubai killing
DAILYRECORD Fri, 26 Feb 2010
There was another murder most foul of course, in Dubai recently - that of the Palestinian official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. No fewer than 18 brave men and women of the Israeli security service Mossad massed in the desert kingdom to cold-bloodedly murder one man. They surprised him in his hotel bedroom where he was, unarmed and without a bodyguard, then electrocuted to the head to stun him and suffocated, put into his pyjamas and tucked in nicely.

Somehow, the hotel door was locked from the inside and the murderers left him to be discovered and, they hoped, assumed to have died from natural causes.

But they reckoned without the plucky police chief and bravery of the authorities in Dubai.

What they discovered would have been covered up in many countries in the world on the basis it would cause the mother of all political storms.

They discovered the true cause of death and then pieced together a jigsaw of CCTV images from airport shopping malls and every conceivable hotel angle.

They identified first the suspicious foreigners, got their hands thanks to Jordan on two Palestinian traitors, tracked the communications of the gang to a nerve centre in Austria and, most explosively of all, revealed that the murderers were travelling on British, Irish, French and German passports, some of them diplomatic passports, which had all been stolen by thieves working for Mossad in absolute defiance of promises given to foreign governments by Israel in the wake of previous crimes.

The Israeli press has done more than anyone else to uncover all of this.

It is not denied by anyone in Israel that they committed this act of state terrorism in a third country using the sovereign property of friendly countries to do so.

So what is to be done? First there must be a comprehensive review of Britain's relations with Israel. Now that they have been caught crimson-handed not just in an act of terrorism but endangering the safety of British citizens travelling or living abroad, it's time to say enough is enough.

There can be no more crawling to the Israel lobby who mobilise thousands of sycophants to complain every time people like me write or broadcast items like this, hoping to intimidate editors and proprietors into putting a lid on criticism of Israel.

It usually works. It frightened the BBC into the scandal of the Disasters Emergency Committee appeal that never was during the recent Gaza War and it has circumscribed my work on both Talksport and even Press TV during the last year. The Record's editor is still busy, months after an article I wrote here, dealing with complaints from "outraged Record readers"..in, er, Israel.

Some people say they'll kill me. Maybe so; but if they do my son will pick up my banner.

If they kill my son, my daughter will pick up the banner.

If they kill her, others will pick up the banner of justice for the Palestinians.

Israel cannot kill its way out of this pickle. Only an acknowledgement of its involvement in crimes against Palestine will begin to do that.
1.3% rise for Thames Water bills
BBC Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:28:08 GMT
Water regulator Ofwat allows Thames Water to increase its bills by 1.3% in 2010/11.
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Obama's healthcare plan is a modest proposal
GUARDIAN Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:05:19 GMT
President Obama has opted for a version of healthcare reform that was passed by the Senate and contains added sweeteners There have been so many versions of healthcare reform in the last year that people have lost count. But there have been none, until yesterday, with Barack Obama's name on. That is because when he first set out on this increasingly booby-trapped path, he thought he had learned from Hillary Clinton's (and her husband's) debacle in 1993, when the idea was to submit a fully formed plan to Congress and then strike a deal with Republicans. This time round, Mr Obama enunciated principles but remained haughtily vague on the details, leaving it up to Congress to hammer them out. That proved to be one of the biggest mistakes he has made, and the two houses of Congress passed different bills which have gridlocked the system. So the first break with recent practice in the 11-page summary published on the White House website yesterday was its title: The president's proposal. It turned out to be a modest one. Essentially, it is the version of healthcare reform that was passed by the Senate, with added sweeteners, the chief of which is the creation of a body that will have the power to regulate increases in insurance premiums. This is an element which had not surfaced in either the house or Senate bills, but which capitalises on the anger created by premium increases of up to 39% announced by an insurer in California. There are other changes, such as an end to the special deal to win the support of a wavering Democrat senator for Nebraska, and delays on a tax on high-end insurance plans. But there is no return to the public option contained in the house bill, a government-run insurance scheme which would drive down the premiums of private insurance companies, and this will anger some Democrats in the house. The president's proposal was presented as an opening bid of a bipartisan debate, part of which will take place on television tomorrow. In reality, all thoughts of getting Republicans onside have been abandoned. So a public debate is a way of turning the populist tables on the Republicans, of challenging them to produce their counter-proposals or appear obstructionist to a nation calling for answers in an election year. Mr Obama's problems lie not just with an opposition whose mere threat of a filibuster is enough to stop a vote. They lie also with his own party, which comprises such a variety of wildlife, from the radical reformer to the rabbit transfixed in headlights, as to make the very words "healthcare reform" optimistic. Mr Obama now has a policy, but it remains to be seen whether he has a process that would survive the centre ground of his own party. In any event, there is no way back for him and no obvious tactical retreat. If this attempt fails, his presidency will be bogged down. Obama administration Barack Obama US healthcare US domestic policy Health policy Healthcare industry US Congress guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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