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Miss Wagstaff Presents... (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008 | Politics
Betsan Powys of the BBC provides up with a quick bit of news before she heads off to conference: Jane Davidson, thought of at one time as a possible Labour leadership candidate, has told her party in Pontypridd that she's standing down at the next Assembly election. She made it clear last year that she wouldn't be going for the leadership but told a meeting last night that she won't fight the seat...
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The Half-Blood Welshman (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008 | Politics
In 1999, when the Welsh Assembly first convened in Cardiff, there were four parties represented. And there were four party leaders there present - Alun Michael, Dafydd Wigley, Rod Richards and Mike German. Today, only one remains standing - indeed, only one survived more than a year. And it is a tribute to Mike German's incredible sticking power that he, the leader of the smallest party in the assembly...
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Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008 | Politics
Allison Pearson has an interesting puff piece INTERVIEW with Gordon Brown in today's Daily Mail . Pearson is one of those irritating vaguely wannabe trendy left of centre journalists who appear on Question Time from time to time, for no apparent reason. She's trendy lefty, not because of any conviction, but because it's where she thinks 'meeja' people like her ought to be. Anyway, on to her interview....
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Crooked Timber (Free subscription) | yesterday | Politics
The British government has abandoned proposals for non-voting preference shares and is moving towards full-scale nationalisation of the banking sector. According to the London Times(h/t Felix Salmon) the latest proposals would leave the government owning 70 per cent of Royal Bank of Scotland and 50 per cent of Halifax. The London stockmarket is likely to [...]
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Mark Wadsworth (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008 | Politics
I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but when an EU-sceptic politician dies in a mysterious accident ...?
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Webtorque (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008 | Politics
Another day, another… hardly a week goes by without… if I had a fiver for…. I’ve lost count of how… The latest incident of data loss really, really plumbs the depths. I’ve started to pay less attention to the detail of such cases recently because it’s plain they’re simply endemic, human failings and not something we [...]
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Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008 | Politics
In my Telegraph column today I look at why so many Conservatives have decided to support Barack Obama rather than John McCain, and I briefly explain my decision to come off the fence and join them. I never thought the day would come when I would not support a Republican candidate. Ronald Reagan is one of my political inspirations, but he is probably turning in his grave when he sees what has happened...
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Liberal Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008 | Politics
ICELAND has – to use the technical term employed by trained economists – gone tits up, and such staid bodies as Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council and West Yorkshire Police Authority are suffering the collateral damage. Incredibly, Gordon Brown has responded by invoking anti-terrorism legislation, although rumours that he has asked his friend Dubya to add [...]
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Ensaios Imperfeitos (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008 | Politics
Julia Kollewe guardian.co.uk , Friday October 10 2008 16.00 BST Stockmarkets around the world slumped today as fears of a global recession deepened. After Wall Street fell to a five-year low last night, the rout started in Asia, where Singapore slid into recession, and quickly spread to Europe. In London, the FTSE 100 plunged more than 10% in early trading, and the Dow Jones dived nearly 700 points...
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EPL Talk (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008 | Politics
Creditors have contacted at least three Premier League clubs to express their concern that their level of debt is unsustainable, according to Paul Kelso of The Daily Telegraph. The question is which clubs do you believe are the ones most likely to have been contacted? Vote now. Which Premier League Clubs Were Contacted By [...]
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Bob Piper (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008 | Politics
Hat tip to Chris Paul for this ... and you can read what Chris has got to say about this psycho-babbler on his site, and Unity adds some more here... Analyse This My point is more about The Daily Politics and the Beebs other political programme fronted by Andrew Neil, This Week . One of them is shown very late on Thursday nights, about the time you usually get a horror movie on, and the other is shown...
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Guy Fawkes' blog (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008 | Politics
City outrage over Peston's reporting has been voiced by Michael Howard. He has written to the FSA to ask for an investigation into the leaking of intensely market sensitive information to Pesto-Wire. Good. click to enlarge
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ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008 | Politics
Boris Johnson is claiming to have achieved his pledge to cut crime and disorder on London transport, five months after taking office.Announcing that dedicated police teams would be deployed across 30 locations in January 2009, the capital's mayor produced statistics...
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Liberal Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008 | Politics
Lost in Iceland Financial Crisis Councils ‘not reckless with cash’ Asian stocks hit after Dow plunge World must follow my example, says Brown Gordon Brown to sue Iceland DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Sarah Ismail Hello Readers! I’m your new Friday NetCaster. I’d like to present a new feature, Friday Fun. Something to smile at, just because [...]
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BBC NEWS | Betsan Powys' blog (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008 | Politics
Well you didn't think council Finance Directors kept the millions they get from the Assembly Government in a bucket under the bed, did you? They didn't. Some - and we know already of five Welsh councils - were attracted by investment opportunities in Icelandic banks, like Landsbanki's promise of "Creative, positive, sustainable" plans to invest their money and better interest rates than they were...
