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Ed Miliband achieved a political first today when he used Have I Got News For You’s “odd one out” round as his inspiration for a political speech. One wonders what the audience at Google’s Big Tent event in Hertfordshire made of it when images flashed on to the screen of Willy Wonka, Margaret Hodge, the [...]
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“This is climate change. We were warned about extreme weather. Not just hot weather. But extreme weather. When I had my hearings, when I had the gavel years ago – It’s been a while – the scientists all agreed that what we’d start to see was extreme weather. And people looked at one another and [...]
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This year The Economist described Sweden as “probably the best governed” country in the entire world. But “governed” is putting it mildly. The Swedes have purposefully constructed a semi-Orwellian communications regime – thanks to a 2009 law authorising the warrantless wiretapping of all telephone and internet traffic that crosses Sweden’s borders. Sweden is often cited as [...]
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Nick Clegg: I am the responsible one, the normal one, the one who’ll be sensible and focus on the important stuff, while the other politicos are obsessing over their weird Westminster stuff.
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Which main party would best handle a general election tomorrow? It will remain a hypothetical question but, remarkably considering their situation a few months ago, it might just be the Lib Dems. Today’s events were a reminder why. While David Cameron had to cope with questions about the unity of his party troops, no one [...]
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“History will not forgive us” said Environment Secretary Owen Paterson yesterday, should we fail to act to save wildlife. He was speaking at a conference, hosted by the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge, on the illegal wildlife trade which is driving iconic species like the rhino, elephant and tiger towards extinction as [...]
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The IMF seems to have rowed back a little in its article IV annual healthcheck on the UK economy from the position it was adopting last April. At the IMF’s annual meeting in Washington, the fund’s chief economist, Olivier Blanchard, said the UK Chancellor, George Osborne, was “playing with fire” by continuing to pursue austerity, [...]
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Fact: Patients are flooding A&E departments because they do not trust out-of-hours alternatives, a spokesman for the Royal College of Physicians told MPs yesterday. Fact: only 75 per cent of A&E departments were seeing patients within the targeted four hours last week. Fact: Sir David Nicholson, the controversial NHS chief many blame for the Staffs [...]
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The West London Free School Trust received some good news this morning. Our proposal to open a new primary school in Earls Court has been approved by the Department for Education, one of 102 free school proposal given the green light today. If you add that to the new primary we’re opening in September and [...]
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I like David Cameron. Anyone who has read anything I have written in the last four or five years might be astonished to see me write that. There was the signing up to Brownonomics, the failure to win the election, the coalition and the calamitous mismanagement of his party. This morning he was still at [...]
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