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The alphabet of donations in a day: from Abrahams to Zac
Yazan: Sara | 10 January 2010 | No Comments
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Having reached the end of the snow puns and photos, the Sunday media are full of Peter Watt’s story of his dismissal after the David Abrahams’ donations. But whilst most sources have chosen to follow up on Watt’s highly negative view of Gordon Brown, the Sunday Times has gone for a story about ‘hidden’ donations to the Conservative Party from, amongst others, our favourite non-dom, Zac [...]
After six steps back, will Leeds take one step forward?
Yazan: Sara | 03 January 2010 | 3 Comments
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Ten years ago, Leeds United were top of the Premier League. Today they again find themselves top – but of League 1 – or the third Division in old money. When I was young. Leeds were one of the big teams. Had the concept of a ‘Big 4′ existed then, Leeds would have been one [...]
Happy New Year!
Yazan: Sara | 01 January 2010 | No Comments
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The Daily Mail – where misogyny sells
Yazan: Sara | 30 December 2009 | No Comments
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Over at LibDem Voice today, Alex Foster’s post on some of the scarier articles from yesterday’s Daily Mail sent me to today’s web edition of the paper. Following on from my post yesterday on Leo McKinstry’s bid for Jan Moir’s crown of hate, I thought that the headlines couldn’t be any more frightening today. Boy, [...]
Are job centres employing their own form of racism?
Yazan: Sara | 25 November 2009 | No Comments
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I was horrified last night to read a post on the web site of Vic D’Albert, a businessman and local councillor in Bury and the LibDem parliamentary candidate for Bury South. Vic’s site is a good combination of local news and action, with some LibDem policies and principles. Here’s Vic telling the story: A local business I [...]
Britain's gone topless
Yazan: sarabedford | 18 June 2009 | 2 Comments
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The warm weather this morning has led to the residents of Hertfordshire opening up their convertible car to enjoy the sunshine whilst it’s here. On the way in and out of Watford this morning, I noticed 12 cars with their roofs down. But there was something rather strange about the drivers. Seven were men and five women. [...]
Transparency Gordon? We can see right through you!
Yazan: sarabedford | 10 June 2009 | No Comments
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On 11 May 2007, Gordon Brown launched his campaign to become leader of the Labour party and so inherit the mantle of Prime Minister. It turned out not to be much of a campaign, as he travelled around the country unchallenged, whilst the six candidates vying to be his deputy bickered behind him, and his [...]
You don't need to be an accountant to know right from wrong
Yazan: sarabedford | 11 May 2009 | No Comments
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One peculiar point to come out of the debate around the reform of MPs expenses is the outrage that MPs’ claims are not being checked by qualified accountants. Being married to an accountant who has a senior post in industry, I am pretty sure that most accountants emerge from their training with a little more knowledge [...]
Forget it Dave, the wedding's off
Yazan: sarabedford | 05 May 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Conservatives, David Cameron, MPs, Uncategorized
The Times has carried a shortened version of a report from Conservative Home about the sort of parliamentary party David Cameron may find himself leading after the next General Election. A majority of one would leave Cameron with 50% of his party new to the Commons, whilst the Tories’ private hopes for 140 new MPs and a majority [...]
Women – loose or dumbed down?
Yazan: sarabedford | 09 March 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: newspapers, television, Uncategorized
I switched on the television earlier to watch something over lunch to find the start of Loose Women on ITV. Now I don’t suppose I’m in the target audience for the programme, but with all the various stories around International Women’s Day, you would have thought there would be a decent story to lead on. [...]
